title: Uptake and subcellular localization of bacterial lipopolysaccharide in the adrenal gland.
abstract: For determination of the kinetics of uptake and subcellular localization of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from LPS-high density lipoprotein (LPS-HDL) complexes in the adrenal gland, LPS-HDL complexes were isolated by immunoaffinity chromatography of 125I-Salmonella minnesota Re595 LPS that had been incubated with 20 mM EDTA-rabbit plasma. After intravenous injection of LPS-HDL complexes in rabbits, preferential uptake of the LPS was observed in the adrenal, so that by 5 hours, adrenal-tissue-bound LPS concentrations (determined by use of 131I-BSA blood marker) exceeded all other tissues examined, including liver and spleen, by at least three-fold. For determination of the subcellular localization of LPS, cholesterol-rich (lipid droplet) fractions and cholesterol-depleted fractions were obtained by ultracentrifugation of homogenates of adrenal tissue from rabbits killed at various times after injection of LPS-HDL complexes. As much as 40% of the adrenal-tissue-bound LPS was recovered in the cholesterol-rich fraction 2.5-24 hours after injection of LPS-HDL complexes. Electron-microscopic autoradiographic and immunocytochemical analysis of adrenal cortex of animals killed 5 hours after injection of LPS-HDL complexes demonstrated specific localization of LPS in lipid droplets. These data thus provide direct evidence for the uptake of LPS into the adrenal cortex of animals with intravascular LPS-HDL complexes and indicate that further study of the effect of LPS on adrenocortical function is warranted.
mesh_terms: D000302:Adrenal Cortex / Q000378:metabolism; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000378:metabolism; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D007120:Immunochemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits; D012475:Salmonella; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL; D002784:Cholesterol