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. 1984 Oct 1;223(1):151–160. doi: 10.1042/bj2230151

Uptake of mannose-terminated glycoproteins in isolated rat liver cells. Evidence for receptor-mediated endocytosis in hepatocytes.

H Tolleshaug, T Berg, R Blomhoff
PMCID: PMC1144275  PMID: 6497838

Abstract

Even though most of the hepatic binding capacity for mannose-terminated glycoproteins has previously been shown to reside in the hepatocytes (not in the non-parenchymal cells), detailed evidence for the specific uptake of mannose-terminated ligands has been lacking. In the present studies, yeast invertase, a large glycoprotein (Mr 270 000) containing about 50% mannose, was shown to be taken up into hepatocytes by receptor-mediated endocytosis. The uptake was saturable and could be specifically inhibited by mannosides or by a Ca2+ chelator. The asialo-glycoprotein receptor was not involved. The low-Mr (13 000) ligand ribonuclease B, which contains a single high-mannose glycan, was not taken up by hepatocytes; however, it was taken up as fast as invertase by non-parenchymal liver cells. After injection of 131I-invertase into a rat in vivo, about one-half of the labelled protein was recovered in the hepatocytes. On a per-cell basis, each endothelial cell contained 3-4 times as much radioactivity as did the hepatocytes. On fractionation of hepatocytes in sucrose gradients, invertase showed a different intracellular distribution from that of asialo-fetuin, in that invertase moved much faster into that region of the gradient where the lysosomes were recovered. This indicates that invertase and asialo-fetuin are not transported intracellularly by identical mechanisms.

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