Receptor-Mediated Introduction of Pepstatin-Asialofetuin Conjugate into Lysosomes of Rat Hepatocytes
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 93 (1) , 249-256
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a134160
Abstract
Pepstatin was linked through a carboxyl group to asialofetuin (PS-ASF). An analysis by separation of hepatocytes from nonparenchymal cells showed that PS-ASF was taken up by hepatocytes, following intraveneous injection into rats. After the injection of PS-ASF, pepstatin concentration in the liver reached a maximum at 2 h and then decreased. In an analysis by differential centrifugation of the liver homogenate from rats injected with PS-ASF, pepstatin showed a lysosomal type subcellular distribution pattern. Isolation studies of tritosomes clearly demonstrated the exclusive accumulation of pepstatin within the lysosomes of livers from rats given PS-ASF (at 2 h after administration). Pepstatin contained in tritosomes was in a free form, as determined by column chromatography of Sephadex G-15. The activity of cathepsin D in the livers was markedly inhibited in rats given PS-ASF. However, the treatment of rats with PS-ASF had no effect on the hepatic lysosomal degradation of endocytosed FITC-labeled asialofetuin (FITC-ASF). Introduction of PS-ASF into the hepatocytes was followed by the immediate and time-dependent excretion of free pepstatin into the bile. Quantification of pepstatin excreted into the bile revealed that the biliary excretion route can account for the disappearance of pepstatin from the liver.Keywords
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