Two types of secretory pathways are present in mammalian cells: constitutive secretion and regulated secretion (1). In the constitutive secretory pathway, which is found in all types of cells, secretory products are packed in small vesicles. Most of the proteoglycans and glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix are secreted in this way. The regulated secretory pathway, found in the more differ...

The protein secretory machinery in Eukarya is involved in post-translational modification (PTMs) and sorting of the secretory and many transmembrane proteins. While the secretory machinery has been well-studied using classic reductionist approaches, a holistic view of its complex nature is lacking. Here, we present the first genome-scale model for the yeast secretory machinery which captures th...

the chemical nature of secretion by the stigma and transmitting tissue in datura stramoniumwas studied by light microscopy using sudan black b, coomasie brilliant blue (cbb), toluidine blue,safranin, and pas. the stigmatic secretion reacted positively for lipids. during development, stigmaticcells became separated and intracellular lipids were transferred to intercellular spaces where theygradu...

Neuroendocrine cells are specialized to produce, maintain and release large stores of secretory peptides. We show that the Drosophila dimmed/Mist1 bHLH gene confers such a pro-secretory phenotype on neuroendocrine cells. dimmed is expressed selectively in central and peripheral neuroendocrine cells. In dimmed mutants, these cells survive, and adopt normal cell fates and morphology. However, the...

The glycoconjugate components of secretory granules were analyzed in cells of mucous glands in ventral skin from Rana fuscigula. The analysis was done with standard histochemical methods on semithin glycol methacrylate-embedded tissues. The staining patterns in semithin sections were comparable to those using paraffin-embedded tissue while the cytological detail was better preserved. The mucous...

In the past decade, several model systems have been developed to study the details of the production of secretory IgA by the mucosal surface. Until recently, most attention in vaccine research has been directed toward establishing a vigorous systemic (predominantly IgG) humoral immune response to the infectious agent. With the recognition, however, that secretory IgA is overwhelmingly the predo...

The events in the biogenesis of secretory granules after the budding of a dense-cored vesicle from the trans-Golgi network (TGN) were investigated in the neuroendocrine cell line PC12, using sulfate-labeled secretogranin II as a marker. The TGN-derived dense-cored vesicles, which we refer to as immature secretory granules, were found to be obligatory organellar intermediates in the biogenesis o...

The pancreatic acinar carcinoma established in rat by Reddy and Rao (1977, Science 198:78-80) demonstrates heterogeneity of cytodifferentiation ranging from cells containing abundant well-developed secretory granules to those with virtually none. We examined the synthesis intracellular transport and storage of secretory proteins in secretory granule-enriched (GEF) and secretory granule-deficien...