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. 1985 Nov 1;231(3):663–669. doi: 10.1042/bj2310663

Intracellular distribution of haem after uptake by different receptors. Haem-haemopexin and haem-asialo-haemopexin.

A Smith
PMCID: PMC1152800  PMID: 2416309

Abstract

How the interaction of haemopexin with two different receptors affects its subsequent metabolism and 'intracellular' haem transport was examined by using mesohaem-haemopexin and mesohaem-asialo-haemopexin. The physical properties of the two haem proteins, including their absorption and c.d. spectra, are similar. Binding studies in vitro showed that haem-asialo-haemopexin interacts with both the haemopexin-specific and galactose-specific receptors on liver plasma membranes, but that haem-haemopexin interacts only with the haemopexin receptor. In vivo haem-asialo-haemopexin rapidly interacts with the liver via the galactose-specific receptor, since the protein is extensively catabolized and uptake is blocked by asialofetuin. Haem iron from haem-asialo-haemopexin is not accumulated in the liver to the same extent as from intact haem-haemopexin, and the native sialylated protein is not proteolysed. Moreover, after fractionation of homogenized liver by using colloidal-silica gradients, liver-associated haem-haemopexin and haem-asialo-haemopexin produced distinctly different patterns for both protein and ligand, consistent with their uptake by two distinct receptors. These results demonstrate that the interaction of haemopexin with different receptors influences its subsequent metabolic fate and that haem iron from haem-haemopexin is efficiently conserved only if it enters the liver cell via the specific haemopexin receptor.

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