Gc-globulin (vitamin D binding protein) is synthesized and secreted by hepatocytes and internalized by hepatic stellate cells through Ca(2+)-dependent interaction with the megalin/gp330 receptor

Clinica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Clinical Chemistry
Olav GressnerAxel M Gressner

Abstract

Gc-globulin or vitamin D binding protein is a highly expressed, multifunctional and polymorphic serum protein, which also serves as the major transporter for vitamin D metabolites in the circulation. The present study was performed to analyze the interaction between gc-globulin of hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells, the most important fat-/retinol-storing cell type in the liver, which spontaneously transdifferentiates to myofibroblasts in culture. Hepatic stellate cells and hepatocytes were isolated by the pronase/collagenase reperfusion method, hepatocytes by collagenase reperfusion of the organ. Gc-globulin expression was monitored by immunocytochemistry, immunoblotting, RT-PCR, metabolic labelling with [(35)S]-methionine, and its intracellular binding to alpha-smooth-muscle actin was investigated by co-immunoprecipitation. Cytoskeletal stainings of gc-globulin and alpha-smooth-muscle actin in hepatic stellate cells and the identification of the receptors megalin/gp330, HCAM/CD44, cubilin and annexin A2 were performed with confocal immunocytochemistry, immunoblotting and/or FACS-analysis. Hepatocytes synthesize and secrete gc-globulin as shown by RT-PCR and [(35)S]-methionine labelling, which could be suppressed by cycloh...Continue Reading

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