scholarly journals Detection of the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor on nitrocellulose paper with colloidal gold-LDL conjugates.

1987 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1515-1521
Author(s):  
P D Roach ◽  
M Zollinger ◽  
S P Noël
Author(s):  
Dean A. Handley ◽  
Cynthia M. Arbeeny ◽  
Larry D. Witte

Low density lipoproteins (LDL) are the major cholesterol carrying particles in the blood. Using cultured cells, it has been shown that LDL particles interact with specific surface receptors and are internalized via a coated pit-coated vesicle pathway for lysosomal catabolism. This (Pathway has been visualized using LDL labeled to ferritin or colloidal gold. It is now recognized that certain lysomotropic agents, such as chloroquine, inhibit lysosomal enzymes that degrade protein and cholesterol esters. By interrupting cholesterol ester hydrolysis, chloroquine treatment results in lysosomal accumulation of cholesterol esters from internalized LDL. Using LDL conjugated to colloidal gold, we have examined the ultrastructural effects of chloroquine on lipoprotein uptake by normal cultured fibroblasts.


1986 ◽  
Vol 234 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Jessup ◽  
G Jurgens ◽  
J Lang ◽  
H Esterbauer ◽  
R T Dean

The incorporation of the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal into low-density lipoprotein (LDL) increases the negative charge of the particle, and decreases its affinity for the fibroblast LDL receptor. It is suggested that this modification may occur in vivo, and might promote atherogenesis.


1985 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 785-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
D P Wade ◽  
B L Knight ◽  
A K Soutar

A new technique has been developed to identify low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) receptors on nitrocellulose membranes, after transfer from SDS/polyacrylamide gels, by ligand blotting with biotin-modified LDL. Modification with biotin hydrazide of periodate-oxidized lipoprotein sugar residues does not affect the ability of the lipoprotein to bind to the LDL receptor. Bound lipoprotein is detected with high sensitivity by a streptavidin-biotin-peroxidase complex, and thus this method eliminates the need for specific antibodies directed against the ligand. The density of the bands obtained is proportional to the amount of pure LDL receptor protein applied to the SDS/polyacrylamide gel, so that it is possible to quantify LDL receptor protein in cell extracts. Biotin can be attached to other lipoproteins, for example very-low-density lipoproteins with beta-mobility, and thus the method will be useful in the identification and isolation of other lipoprotein receptors.


1996 ◽  
Vol 317 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery N. BOCHKOV ◽  
Vsevolod A. TKACHUK ◽  
Maria P. PHILIPPOVA ◽  
Dimitri V. STAMBOLSKY ◽  
Fritz R. BÜHLER ◽  
...  

Using ligand blotting techniques, with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) as ligand, we have previously described the existence of atypical lipoprotein-binding proteins (105 kDa and 130 kDa) in membranes from human aortic medial tissue. The present study demonstrates that these proteins are also present in membranes from cultured human (aortic and mesenteric) and rat (aortic) vascular smooth-muscle cells (VSMCs). To assess the relationship of 105 and 130 kDa lipoprotein-binding proteins to known lipoprotein receptors, ligand binding specificity was studied. We tested effects of substances known to antagonize ligand binding to either the LDL [apolipoprotein B,E (apo B,E)] receptor (dextran sulphate, heparin, pentosan polysulphate, protamine, spermine, histone), the scavenger receptor (dextran sulphate, fucoidin), the very-low-density-lipoprotein (VLDL) receptor [receptor-associated protein (RAP)], or LDL receptor-related protein (RAP, α2-macroglobulin, lipoprotein lipase, exotoxin-A). None of these substances, with the exception of dextran sulphate, influenced binding of LDL to either 105 or 130 kDa proteins. Sodium oleate or oleic acid, known stimuli for the lipoprotein binding activity of the lipolysis-stimulated receptor, were also without effect. LDL binding to 105 and 130 kDa proteins was inhibited by anti-LDL (apo B) antibodies. LDL and VLDL bound to 105 and 130 kDa proteins with similar affinities (蝶50 μg/ml). The unique ligand selectivity of 105 and 130 kDa proteins supports the existence of a novel lipoprotein-binding protein that is distinct from all other currently identified LDL receptor family members. The similar ligand selectivity of 105 and 130 kDa proteins suggests that they may represent variant forms of an atypical lipoprotein-binding protein.


1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 3268-3277
Author(s):  
R D Sege ◽  
K F Kozarsky ◽  
M Krieger

The ldlA locus is one of four Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell loci which are known to be required for the synthesis of functional low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors. Previous studies have suggested that the ldlA locus is diploid and encodes the LDL receptor. To confirm this assignment, we have isolated a partial genomic clone of the Chinese hamster LDL receptor gene and used this and other nucleic acid and antibody probes to study a family of ldlA mutants isolated after gamma-irradiation. Our analysis suggests that there are two LDL receptor alleles in wild-type CHO cells. Each of the three mutants isolated after gamma-irradiation had detectable deletions affecting one of the two LDL receptor alleles. One of the mutants also had a disruption of the remaining allele, resulting in the synthesis of an abnormal receptor precursor which was not subject to Golgi-associated posttranslational glycoprotein processing. The correlation of changes in the expression, structure, and function of LDL receptors with deletions in the LDL receptor genes in these mutants directly demonstrated that the ldlA locus in CHO cells is diploid and encodes the LDL receptor. In addition, our analysis suggests that CHO cells in culture may contain a partial LDL receptor pseudogene.


1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 4799-4806
Author(s):  
P Reddy ◽  
M Krieger

ldlC cells are low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-deficient Chinese hamster ovary cell mutants which express pleiotropic defects in Golgi-associated glycosylation reactions. The dramatically reduced stability of the abnormally glycosylated LDL receptors in ldlC cells was shown to be due, in part, to rapid proteolysis and release of a large extracellular fragment of the receptor into the medium. A set of spontaneously arising LDL receptor-positive revertants of ldlC cells has been isolated. One of these, RevC-13, exhibits the glycosylation defects characteristic of the original ldlC mutant, suggesting that restoration of receptor activity was due to extragenic suppression. This suppression was due to a dramatic increase in the rate of LDL receptor synthesis rather than to an increase in the stability of the abnormally glycosylated receptors. Increased receptor synthesis was not due to receptor gene amplification. The increased LDL receptor activity was subject to normal sterol regulation. Analysis of the RevC-13 extragenic suppressor activity in a series of hybrid cells showed that RevC-13 suppression was a codominant trait that acted in cis to the LDL receptor structural gene (ldlA). Thus, the extragenic suppression in RevC-13 cells has defined a genetic element which is either part of or linked to the LDL receptor structural gene and which can control LDL receptor expression.


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