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The effect of monensin on thyroglobulin secretion

Studies with isolated follicles from pig thyroids

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The effect of monensin on the secretion of thyroglobulin was studied in open follicles isolated from pig thyroid tissue; in this system, thyroglobulin is secreted into the incubation medium.

When monensin was present during a 4-h chase incubation after pulse-labelling with3H-leucine, the secretion of labelled thyroglobulin was reduced by about 85%; in electron-microscopic autoradiographs of rat thyroid lobes labelled and chase-incubated under similar conditions the relative number of grains over follicle lumina was strongly reduced when monensin was present during the chase. These observations are in agreement with the consensus that monensin arrests transport of secretory proteins in the Golgi complex. In other experiments, pulse-labelled follicles were chase-incubated for 1.5 h whereby labelled thyroglobulin was transported from the RER to exocytic vesicles. Monensin present during a subsequent chase of 0.5 h caused only a moderate decrease of labelled thyroglobulin secretion. TSH present during the second chase-stimulated secretion in both control and monensin-exposed follicles. TSH also caused a drastic reduction of exocytic vesicles in rat thyroid lobes, and the number of vesicles remaining in the cells was the same in controls and lobes exposed to the ionophore.

The observations are interpreted to show that monensin does not inhibit the basal or TSH-stimulated transport of thyroglobulin from the site of monensin-induced arrest in the Golgi complex to the apical cell surface or the exocytosis of thyroglobulin.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

    P. Ring, U. Björkman, V. Johanson &  R. Ekholm

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Ring, P., Björkman, U., Johanson, V. et al. The effect of monensin on thyroglobulin secretion. Cell Tissue Res. 248, 153–160 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239976

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