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. 1983 Oct 15;216(1):71–80. doi: 10.1042/bj2160071

Effect of apolipoproteins E and C-III on the interaction of chylomicrons with parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells from rat liver.

T J Van Berkel, J K Kruijt, L M Scheek, P H Groot
PMCID: PMC1152471  PMID: 6651780

Abstract

[3H]Triacylglycerol-labelled chylomicrons were isolated from intestinal lymph, obtained from rats made hypolipidaemic by treatment with pharmacological amounts of 17 alpha-ethynyloestradiol. Oestrogen treatment results in a large reduction in the content of apolipoproteins (apo) E and C of lymph chylomicrons. Upon incubation in vitro with freshly isolated parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells the apo E-, apo C-poor chylomicrons became readily cell-associated. With increasing chylomicron concentrations this cell-association was saturable and half-maximal cell-association was achieved at about 0.55 mg of triacylglycerol/ml. The cell-association was time- and temperature-dependent. A more than 90% inhibition of the cell-association of the [3H]triacylglycerol moiety was observed with both parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells when pure apo C-III (12.6 micrograms/mg of triacylglycerol) was incorporated into the chylomicrons. These data indicate that apo E-, apo C-poor chylomicrons are bound to both parenchymal and non-parenchymal liver cells at a high-affinity site of limited capacity and that binding to this site is strongly inhibited by apo C-III. With apo C-III-enriched chylomicrons simultaneous determination of the cell-association of the 125I-apo C-III and the [3H]triacylglycerol moiety indicated that more 125I-apo C-III becomes associated to the cells than expected on the basis of [3H]triacylglycerol radioactivity measurements. It is suggested that upon cell-association of apo C-III its binding to the chylomicron particles is lost. Consequently the occupation of the cellular recognition site by apo C-III prevents further chylomicron binding and thus leads to a decrease of the cell-association level of the [3H]triacylglycerol moiety. Apo E enrichment of the chylomicrons led to an increased cell-association rate with parenchymal cells and to a marked increase of the cell-association level with non-parenchymal cells. The cell-association of the apo E radioactivity followed closely the [3H]triacylglycerol radioactivity, indicating that the particle-apo E complex is bound as a unity. The apo E effects were opposed by apo C-III. With apo E-, apo C-III-enriched chylomicrons more 125I-apo E became associated with the cells than could be expected on the basis of the [3H]triacylglycerol measurements. It is concluded that apo C-III can weaken the interaction of apo E with the chylomicrons leading to the cell-association of free apo E. It appears that subtle changes in the apo E and/or apo C-III content of chylomicrons can influence the interaction with both parenchymal and non-parenchymal liver cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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