title: Hepatocyte adhesion to carbohydrate-derivatized surfaces. I. Surface topography of the rat hepatic lectin.
abstract: The rat hepatic lectins, galactose- and N-acetylgalactosamine-binding proteins found on the hepatocyte cell surface, mediate adhesion of isolated primary rat hepatocytes to artificial galactose-derivatized polyacrylamide gels. Biochemical and immunohistochemical techniques were used to examine the topographical redistribution of the rat hepatic lectins in response to galactose-mediated cell adhesion. Hepatocytes isolated from rat liver by collagenase perfusion had an average of 7 x 10(5) cell surface lectin molecules per cell, representing 30-50% of the total lectin molecules per cell, the remainder residing in intracellular pools. Hepatocytes incubated on galactose-derivatized surfaces, whether at 0-4 degrees C or 37 degrees C, rapidly lost greater than 80% of their accessible cell surface lectin binding sites into an adhesive patch of characteristic morphology. The kinetics of rat hepatic lectin disappearance were used to estimate a lateral diffusion coefficient greater than 9 x 10(-9) cm2/s at 37 degrees C, suggesting rapid and unimpeded lectin diffusion in the plane of the membrane. Indirect immunofluorescence labeling of adherent cells using antihepatic lectin antibody revealed a structured ring of receptors surrounding an area of exclusion (patch) of reproducible size and shape which represented approximately 8% of the hepatocyte cell surface. Notably, adherent cells, which had lost greater than 80% of their accessible surface binding sites, still endocytosed soluble galactose-terminated radioligand at greater than 50% of the rate of nonadherent control cells. No net movement of rat hepatic lectin from intracellular pools to the cell surface was found on cells recovered after adhesion to galactose-derivatized surfaces at 37 degrees C, suggesting that the physical size and/or lectin density of the patch was restricted by kinetic or topological constraints.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Weisz
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Schnaar
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D037263:Asialoglycoprotein Receptor; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology*; D004705:Endocytosis; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000378:metabolism; D005690:Galactose / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology*; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D003012:Microbial Collagenase / Q000378:metabolism; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins; D037263:Asialoglycoprotein Receptor; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; C016680:polyacrylamide gels; D066246:ErbB Receptors; D003012:Microbial Collagenase; D005690:Galactose