PLASMA-CLEARANCE OF INTRAVENOUSLY INJECTED ASPARTATE-AMINOTRANSFERASE ISOZYMES - EVIDENCE FOR PREFERENTIAL UPTAKE BY SINUSOIDAL LIVER-CELLS
PLASMA-CLEARANCE OF INTRAVENOUSLY INJECTED ASPARTATE-AMINOTRANSFERASE ISOZYMES - EVIDENCE FOR PREFERENTIAL UPTAKE BY SINUSOIDAL LIVER-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1002/hep.1840050305
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
MORINO, Y
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作者:
KAMIMOTO, Y;HORIUCHI, S;MORINO, Y
Both cytosolic (c-AAT) and mitochondrial (m-AAT) isozymes of aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) appear in serum in some diseases including hepatobiliary dysfunction. Elucidation of the mechanism by which AAT isozymes are cleared from blood was made. I.v. injection into rats of m-AAT and c-AAT purified from rat liver exhibited a biphasic clearance curve with an overall half-life of 42 min and 4.7 h, respectively. The tissue distribution of the radioactivity following i.v. administration of 125I-labeled isozymes revealed that the liver is a major organ involved in plasma clearance of these isozymes. This was supported by the significant retardation in plasma clearance of m-AAT in hepatectomized as well as CCl4-intoxicated rats. The clearance rate of each AAT isozyme in an isolated perfused liver exhibited a single exponential process with the uptake rate for m-AAT being much faster than that for c-AAT. Separation of hepatocytes and sinusoidal liver cells from the rat injected i.v. with 125I-labeled AAT isozymes revealed that sinusoidal cells were responsible for the plasma clearances. In vitro uptake study showed that both isozymes were exclusively taken up by sinusoidal liver cells. The uptake rate for m-AAT was considerably greater than that for c-AAT. Endocytotic index for uptake by sinusoidal cells was 16 times with c-AAT and 34 times with m-AAT as compared with that for inulin or dextran which are taken up by fluid-phase endocytosis, suggesting involvement of adsorptive endocytosis in the uptake of the isozymes.