title: Vitamin A excess alters membrane flow in rat liver.
abstract: Pulse-chase methodology with [35S]methionine as label was employed to determine flow kinetics through the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi apparatus-(lysosome-) secretory vesicle-plasma membrane export route in livers of animals receiving vitamin A excess by gavage. Overall fraction composition determined by morphometry and by analyses of marker enzymes was unchanged by vitamin administration. The vitamin modified the pattern of flow of proteins through the Golgi apparatus to the cell surface and to lysosomes. Altered flux was evidenced by a markedly reduced rate of labeling of lysosomes and a slightly increased rate of labeling of both total membrane proteins of the plasma membrane and of a specific membrane glycoprotein GP80. Also reduced was overall labeling of the Golgi apparatus. Differences in the rate or routes of trafficking of glycoproteins through the Golgi apparatus together with altered opportunities for processing might account for some of the alterations in glycoconjugate glycosylation associated with excess vitamin A administration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Morré
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Morré
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reutter
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Windel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000032:analysis / Q000187:drug effects; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D006031:Glycosylation; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology*; D008297:Male; D008560:Membrane Fluidity / Q000187:drug effects*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; C057189:membrane glycoprotein 80; D014801:Vitamin A