Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 30, 1185-1196, Copyright © 1989 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Intrahepatic assembly of very low density lipoproteins: immunologic characterization of apolipoprotein B in lipoproteins and hepatic membrane fractions and its intracellular distribution

RA Davis, AB Prewett, DC Chan, JJ Thompson, RA Borchardt and WR Gallaher
Cell and Molecular Biology Unit, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver.

Monoclonal antibodies, prepared against rat apoB, were used to examine apoB structure in serum lipoproteins and characterize the forms and localization of apoB in liver membrane fractions and cultured hepatocytes. Of the several antibodies obtained, four, having separate epitopes, were characterized. Western blot analysis showed that three (DB11, F4, and LB14) antibodies recognized both apoBL and apoBS. One antibody (HB41) recognized only apoBL. This antibody showed unusual properties. Competition ELISA assays showed that the epitope recognized by HB41 was more effectively expressed on low density lipoproteins (LDL) compared to very low density lipoproteins (VLDL). In addition, treatment of lipoproteins with detergents and sulfhydryl reducing agents also increased the expression of the HB41 epitope. Since HB41 has been found to inhibit LDL binding to hepatocyte receptors, these data indicate that the HB41 epitope is located on the carboxy-terminal side of the apoBS junction (probably within the LDL receptor binding domain). Western blotting hepatic microsomal subfractions showed that in the rough and smooth microsomes, HB41 recognized only apoBL, while in the Golgi it recognized both apoBL and a protein having a molecular weight slightly smaller. In contrast, Western blotting with a polyclonal antibody known to recognize both apoBL and apoBS showed that, in rough and smooth microsomes, proteins in addition to apoBL and apoBS having molecular weights between 120,000 and 30,000 were recognized. These proteins, likely to be proteolytic fragments of apoB, were barely detectable in the Golgi. Additional biosynthetic studies show that the [35S]methionine-labeled proteins smaller than apoB were immunoprecipitated from the rough microsome subfraction. Pulse-chase experiments show that these are produced with the same kinetics as full- size apoBL and apoBS, indicating that they are not incomplete nascent chains. Finally, immunofluorescence microscopy was used to determine the localization of monoclonal epitopes. ApoB monoclonal antibodies that recognized exclusively apoBL (HB41) and apoBL and apoBS (DB11) produced an immunofluorescence pattern characteristic of the endoplasmic reticulum, but not the Golgi. These data suggest that, in cultured rat hepatocytes, the majority of both molecular weight forms of apoB are localized in the endoplasmic reticulum, the initial site of VLDL assembly. The additional finding that proteolytic fragments of apoB are enriched in the microsomal fraction suggests that if the proteolysis occurs during subcellular fractionation, immature apoB is susceptible to proteolysis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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