Polar redistribution of 125I-labelled insulin on the plasma membrane of cultured human lymphocytes
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 286 (5771) , 401-403
- https://doi.org/10.1038/286401a0
Abstract
Cultured human lymphocytes of the IM-9 line have specific binding sites for 125I-insulin that have been characterized in detail1,2. When the hormone–cell interaction was studied by quantitative electron microscopic (EM) autoradiography, it was shown that initial binding was to the plasma membrane and that at 37 °C a small fraction of the ligand was internalized by the cell 3,4. The internalized ligand was found preferentially localized in lysosomes in the Golgi region of the cell 5. It is well known that di- or multivalent ligands redistribute in the plane of the membrane before internalization6. We now report that following initial binding the univalent ligand insulin also undergoes a polar redistribution (‘capping’) before internalization.Keywords
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