Abstract
We previously described the isolation and preliminary characterization of a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant, termed G.7.1, that carried a temperature-sensitive, conditional-lethal lesion affecting the acidification of vesicles in crude cellular extracts (Marnell, M. H., Mathis, L. S., Stookey, M., Shia, S.-P., Stone, D. K., and Draper, R. K. (1984) J. Cell Biol. 99, 1907-1916). In the present report, we have separated lysosomal vesicles from more buoyant nonlysosomal vesicles by centrifuging cell extracts with Percoll and correlated the acidification defect with nonlysosomal vesicles, including endosomes, but not with secondary lysosomes. Moreover, the acidification of nonlysosomal vesicles prepared from mutant cells grown at the permissive temperature was more sensitive to thermal inactivation than similar vesicles from parental cells, implying that a heat-sensitive component is a normal resident of nonlysosomal vesicles in the mutant. This heat-sensitive component is apparently not associated with lysosomes, or if it is, it does not inhibit lysosomal acidification at the nonpermissive temperature. We also found that the transferrin-mediated uptake of iron is inhibited by 50% in the mutant cells at the nonpermissive temperature and that the inhibition cannot be accounted for by reduced binding or internalization of transferrin.
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