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The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol 61, 613-632, Copyright © 1974 by Rockefeller University Press

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CHANGES IN THE RIBOSOME CONTENT, PRINCIPAL MICROSOMAL PROTEIN COMPOSITION, AND SECRETORY CHARACTER OF MAMMARY EPITHELIAL ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM DURING DIFFERENTIATION

: Evidence that Messenger RNAs Specific for Milk Proteins are Incorporated into Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum Formed De Novo after Parturition



Frank Slaby 1 and Carolyn Brown 1

1 From the Department of Biology, Joseph Leidy Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174 and the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Medicine, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545.

Dr. Brownapos;s present address is Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075.

The equilibrium density distribution, protein composition, and secretory character of mouse mammary epithelial rough microsomes have been determined during differentiation. The density range exhibited by the rough microsomes broadens during mammary development; rough microsomes within the 1.25–1.29 g/ml density range appear soon after conception and then within the 1.30–1.34 range after the onset of lactation. The appearance of these denser microsomes represents the progressive increase of the average ribosome content of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during gestation and lactation. Fractionation of rough microsomal proteins by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis reveals that two proteins, having molecular weights of 57,000 and 76,000, occur to a significant extent only during lactation and are then most prominent in the very dense rough microsomes of the 1.30–1.34 range. Nascent polypeptide chains discharged (by incubation with puromycin) from 17-days lactation rough microsomes in either the 1.21–1.29 or 1.30–1.34 density range are distributed equally between the intra- and extravesicular compartments. Whereas 36% of the chains are discharged intravesicularly from 1-day lactation rough microsomes in the 1.30–1.34 range, only 25% are so discharged from those in the 1.21–1.29 range. The results indicate (a) that there is no correlation between the relative levels in lactation rough microsomes of the two microsomal proteins which become prominent during lactation and the extent of secretory activity and (b) that for a short period after parturition the rough ER elements bearing high surface densities of ribosomes have a greater proportion of ribosomes synthesizing milk proteins than the rough ER elements with moderate ribosome densities.

Submitted on March 23, 1973
Revised on February 6, 1974


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