Spatial redistribution of neurosecretory vesicles upon stimulation accelerates their directed transport to the plasma membrane

PLoS One. 2022 Mar 16;17(3):e0264521. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264521. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Through the integration of results from an imaging analysis of intracellular trafficking of labelled neurosecretory vesicles in chromaffin cells, we develop a Markov state model to describe their transport and binding kinetics. Our simulation results indicate that a spatial redistribution of neurosecretory vesicles occurs upon secretagogue stimulation leading vesicles to the plasma membrane where they undergo fusion thereby releasing adrenaline and noradrenaline. Furthermore, we find that this redistribution alone can explain the observed up-regulation of vesicle transport upon stimulation and its directional bias towards the plasma membrane. Parameter fitting indicates that in the deeper compartment within the cell, vesicle transport is asymmetric and characterised by a bias towards the plasma membrane.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biological Transport
  • Cell Membrane / metabolism
  • Chromaffin Cells* / metabolism
  • Cytoplasmic Vesicles / metabolism
  • Kinetics

Grants and funding

DO was supported by Australian Research Council (ARC, https://www.arc.gov.au/) Discovery Project DP180102956. FAM was supported by the ARC LIEF grant LE130100078 and by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/, grants GNT1155794 and GNT1120381 and Senior Research Fellowship 1060075). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.