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The Biological Bulletin, Vol 185, Issue 1 109-114, Copyright © 1993 by Marine Biological Laboratory

NEUROBIOLOGY

Antho-RFamide Immunoreactivity in Neuronal Synaptic and Nonsynaptic Vesicles of Sea Anemones

J. A. Westfall and CJP. Grimmelikhuijzen
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506

Antho-RFamide is a neuropeptide isolated from the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Antho-RFamide immunoreactivity was localized in four different populations of neuronal vesicles in the tentacle nerve plexus of Anthopleura. Small, opaque, neuronal vesicles, averaging 49 nm in diameter, were gold-labeled at two-way synapses. Heterogranular vesicles, averaging 184 nm in diameter, were gold-labeled in a neuronal swelling adjacent to a muscle cell process. These vesicles were similar in size to a third class of gold-labeled dense-cored vesicles. A fourth class of immunogold-labeled vesicles observed in neuronal swellings had light cores and averaged 129 nm in diameter. Using 5-nm gold particles, we observed a heavy labeling of the granular cores of the dense-cored vesicles, suggesting that the immunoreactivity is specific to the vesicle core. The ultrastructural demonstration of Antho-RFamide immunoreactivity in interneuronal synaptic vesicles, together with the immunofluorescence and electrophysiological studies of other investigators, suggest that Antho-RFamide plays a role in neurotransmission in sea anemones.


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