Dual pathways for epidermal growth factor processing after receptor‐mediated endocytosis
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 112 (3), 327-338
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041120304
Abstract
The binding, internalization, intracellular translocation, and degradation of epidermal growth factor (EGF) were studied in mouse Swiss/3T3 fibroblasts under two different physiological conditions at 37°C. In serum‐containing medium the maximal level of cell‐bound EGF was maintained for at least 8 h without appreciable degradation in contrast to serum‐free conditions. These phenomena were correlated with a difference in the intracellular site to which the receptor‐bound EGF was delivered as studied using Percoll density gradients. In serum‐containing medium the majority of cell‐bound EGF was initially taken up into a Golgi‐like vesicle of density 1.046, corresponding to the marker galactosyl transferase, and then delivered to a population of vesicles with similar density as lysosomes (ϱ =1.068–1.110). A portion of the EGF became degraded and was released from the cell into the medium while the remainder stayed with the cells, intact, for a long period of time. In serum‐free medium, EGF became associated with a heterogeneous population of vesicles with a mean density of 1.050 which do not correspond to any of the marker enzymes for subcellular organelles for which we have tested (Golgi, endoplasmic reticulum, plasma membrane, lysosomes). It is then transferred to lysosome‐like vesicles (ϱ = 1.068–1.110). We therefore propose that EGF is processed through two separate endocytotic routes which are regulated by the cell depending upon its physiological state.This publication has 64 references indexed in Scilit:
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