Release of low density lipoprotein receptors from human fibroblasts or Hela cells by tryptic digestion

Nicola Di Ferrante, Patricia V. Donnelly, Daniela T. Di Ferrante, Salvatore Toma, Antonio Gotto

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Abstract

Trypsin treatment of cultured normal human skin fibroblasts or Hela cells releases material which is retained on a low density lipoprotein (LDL)-Sepharose affinity column, may be eluted from it with 2.5 M KI and, after dialysis, agglutinates LDL or apo-B-coated formocells. Such agglutination is prevented by preincubation of the receptor with LDL in solution or with arginine-rich protamine. Trypsin treatment of "receptor defective" or "receptor negative" mutant fibroblasts releases material which is retained on LDL-Sepharose column but fails to agglutinate LDL-coated formocells. The receptor may be labeled with 6-[3H]-glucosamine·HCl and [3H]-leucine, it is inactivated by heating at 80°C for 10 min and may be obtained from normal fibroblasts or Hela cells, whether they were cultured in presence or in absence of lipoprotein-containing fetal calf serum.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)366-373
Number of pages8
JournalBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume84
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 29 1978

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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