Affinity labeling of the galactose/N-acetylgalactosamine-specific receptor of rat hepatocytes: preferential labeling of one of the subunits.
Affinity labeling of the galactose/N-acetylgalactosamine-specific receptor of rat hepatocytes: preferential labeling of one of the subunits.
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大鼠肝细胞半乳糖/N-乙酰半乳糖胺特异性受体的亲和标记:优先标记其中一个亚基。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00394a005
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Lee,YC
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作者:
Lee,RT;Lee,YC
Department of Biology and McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Received February 2, 1987; Revised Manuscript Received April 24, 1987 abstract: The galactose/W-acetylgalactosamine-specific receptor (also known as asialoglycoprotein receptor) of rat hepatocytes consists of three subunits, one of which [43 kilodalton (kDa)] exists in a greater abundance (up to 70% of total protein) over the two minor species (52 and 60 kDa). When the receptor on the hepatocyte membranes was photoaffinity labeled with an 125I-labeled high-affinity reagent [a triantennary glycopeptide containing an aryl azide group on galactosyl residues; Lee, R. T., & Lee, Y. C.(1986) Biochemistry 25, 6835-6841], the labeling occurred mainly (51-80%) on one of the minor bands (52 kDa). Similarly, affinity-bound, 7V-acetylgalactosamine-modified lactoperoxidase radioiodinated the same 52-kDa band preferentially. In contrast, both the photoaffinity labeling and lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination of the purified, detergent-solubilized receptorresulted in a distribution of thelabel that is comparable to the Coomassie blue stainingpattern of the three bands; ie, the 43-kDa band was the major band labeled. These and other experimental results suggest that the preferential labeling of the minor band and inefficient labeling of the major band on the hepatocyte membrane resulted from a specific topological arrangement of these subunits on the membranes. We postulatethat in the native, membrane-boundstate of the receptor, the 52-kDa minor band is topologically prominent, while the major (43 kDa) band is partially masked. This partial masking may result from a tight packing of the receptor subunits on the membranes to form a lattice work [Hardy, M. R., Townsend, R. R., Parkhurst, S. M., & Lee, Y. C.(1985) Biochemistry 24, 22-28]. ere exists on the surface of mammalian hepatocytes a transmembrane receptor that recognizes galactose (Gal) 1 or GalNAc [known as asialoglycoprotein (ASGP) receptor]. Though exact physiological function of this receptor is not clearly understood, intracellular movement of the receptor and its ligands is one of the better studied of the receptor systems [for a review, see Ashwell and Harford (1982) and Breitfeld et al.(1985)]. Accordingto the current concept, the major mode of operation of this receptor system is as follows: An asialoglycoprotein (ligand) is initially bound by the receptors on the hepatocyte surface, the receptor-ligand complex is endocytosed in vesicles via coated pits, the receptor and the ligand dissociate from each other at one of the stages before reaching lysosome, and the receptor then shuttles back to the cell surface while the ligand proceeds to lysosome to be degraded. The receptor is also present in the internal membranes of rat hepatocytes in a quantity that is 2-4 times more abundant than the surface receptor (Breitfeld et al., 1985). Internal receptors appear to be biochemically and immunochemically similar to the surface receptors (Pricer & Ashwell, 1976), but conflicting views exist for the functional relationship between the surface and internal receptors (Ashwell & Har-ford, 1982).