title: Apolipoprotein B binds ferritin by hemin-mediated binding: evidence of direct binding of apolipoprotein B and ferritin to hemin.
abstract: Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is known to be a ferritin-binding protein. Here we show that apoB binds to ferritin through hemin-mediated binding. Human apoB bound to bovine spleen, horse spleen, and canine liver ferritins, but did not bind to bovine apoferritin, even after incorporation of iron into it. Incubation of apoferritin with hemin resulted in apoB binding with apoferritin at the same level as with holoferritin. In contrast, hemin inhibited binding of apoB to ferritin. Bovine spleen apoferritin bound biotinylated hemin, and hemin inhibited the binding between the apoferritin and biotinylated hemin, suggesting that ferritin binds hemin directly. ApoB and LDL containing apoB bound biotinylated hemin, and their bindings were also inhibited by hemin, but not protoporphyrin IX. These data demonstrate that binding of apoB to ferritin is mediated through ferritin's binding to hemin, and also that apoB binds hemin directly.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Aomori 034-8628, Japan.
authors.forename: Takenori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: Tomoya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kunichika
authors.forename: Kiyotaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Orino
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001052:Apoferritins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001055:Apolipoproteins B / Q000378:metabolism*; D001710:Biotin / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D005293:Ferritins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006427:Hemin / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008077:Lipoproteins, LDL / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000187:drug effects; D011524:Protoporphyrins / Q000494:pharmacology; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001055:Apolipoproteins B; D008077:Lipoproteins, LDL; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D001710:Biotin; D006427:Hemin; D005293:Ferritins; D001052:Apoferritins; C028025:protoporphyrin IX