Chem. 274, 31421-31427). Although they have been suggested to be involved in vesicular trafficking, as in the role of the Syt I isoform in synaptic vesicle exocytosis, their exact functions remain to be clarified, and even their precise subcellular localization is still a matter of controversy. In this study, we established rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell lines that stably express Syts III-, V-, VI-, and X-GFP (green fluorescence protein) fusion proteins, respectively, to determine their precise subcellular localizations. Surprisingly, Syts III-, V-, VI-, and X-GFP proteins were found to be targeted to specific organelles: Syt III-GFP to near the plasma membrane, Syt V-GFP to dense-core vesicles, Syt VI-GFP to endoplasmic reticulum-like structures, and Syt X-GFP to vesicles (other than dense-core vesicles) present in cytoplasm. We showed that Syt V-containing vesicles at the neurites of PC12 cells were processed to exocytosis in a Ca 2؉ -dependent manner. Immunohistochemical analysis further showed that endogenous Syt V was also localized on dense-core vesicles in the mouse brain and specifically expressed in glucagon-positive ␣-cells in mouse pancreatic islets, but not in -or ␦-cells. Based on these results, we propose that Syt V is a dense-core vesicle-specific Syt isoform that controls a specific type of Ca 2؉ -regulated secretion.