title: Fatty acid uptake by human hepatoma cell lines represents a carrier-mediated uptake process.
abstract: Cellular influx kinetics of a representative long chain fatty acid, [3H]oleate, were examined in monolayer cultures of three different human hepatoma cell lines (Hep G2; PLC/PRF 5; Mz-Hep-1). The cultures were incubated with 173 microM [3H]oleate in the presence of various concentrations of albumin which served to modulate the unbound oleate concentration in the medium. For all [3H]oleate-albumin complexes incubated, it was shown that cellular uptake of [3H]oleate over the initial 30 s incubation period was maximal, linear and independent of intracellular fatty acid metabolism, representing cellular influx. With increasing unbound oleate concentrations in the medium cellular influx by all three cell lines revealed similar saturation kinetics with Km values of 112.6 +/- 14.5 nM and Vmax values of 7.19 +/- 0.32 nmol.min-1 per mg cell protein. When these hepatoma cell lines were pretreated with the IgG fraction of a monospecific antibody to the rat liver membrane fatty acid binding protein (MFABP), initial uptake of [3H]oleate was selectively inhibited compared to controls pretreated with the IgG fraction of the preimmune serum. Furthermore, immunoblot analysis with the monospecific antibody to the rat MFABP revealed reactivity with a single 40 kDa protein in the homogenates of all three cell lines. These data suggest that uptake of fatty acids by human hepatoma cells may be mediated by a specific membrane fatty acid binding protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University Clinics of Düsseldorf, F.R.G.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stremmel
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Diede
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D007700:Kinetics; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019301:Oleic Acid; D009829:Oleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C107608:FABP7 protein, human; C490174:Fabp7 protein, rat; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D005227:Fatty Acids; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D009829:Oleic Acids; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; D019301:Oleic Acid