title: Low-density lipoprotein receptor on endothelium of brain capillaries.
abstract: The presence of lipoproteins, apolipoproteins, and their receptors in the brain could provide a system for cholesterol homeostasis, as they do in other tissues. This study was undertaken to determine whether plasma low-density lipoprotein, the major carrier of cholesterol, is involved in the delivery of lipids through the blood-brain barrier. 125I-Labeled low-density lipoprotein bound to a specific receptor on the endothelium of brain capillaries when it was injected immediately postmortem into bovine brain circulation. In contrast, no specific binding of 125I-low density lipoprotein was found when the incubations were performed with isolated capillaries. Incubations of endothelial or basement membranes of brain capillaries with 125I-low density lipoprotein demonstrated a high-affinity association of low-density lipoprotein with the membranes of bovine cerebral endothelial cells. The specificity of the low-density lipoprotein binding was determined in several ways using a dot blot assay. This receptor shows the same characteristics as the low-density lipoprotein receptor on human fibroblasts. The molecular weight of the bovine brain capillary low-density lipoprotein receptor (132,000) was determined by ligand blotting. These results demonstrated the occurrence of a low-density lipoprotein receptor on the endothelial cells of brain capillaries.
authors.affiliation: SERLIA, Institut Pasteur, Lille, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Méresse
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delbart
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fruchart
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cecchelli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000378:metabolism*; D002196:Capillaries / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008077:Lipoproteins, LDL / Q000378:metabolism; D011973:Receptors, LDL / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008077:Lipoproteins, LDL; D011973:Receptors, LDL