Cellular targets and receptors for interleukin‐6 I. In vivo and in vitro uptake of IL‐6 in liver and hepatocytes
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Vol. 20 (4), 366-370
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2362.1990.tb01872.x
Abstract
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a potent stimulator of the hepatic synthesis of acute-phase proteins. 125I-labelled IL-6 disppeared from the blood of rats with an overall half-time of about 1.5 min; 41% of the injected tracer dose was recovered in the liver by 15 min. The clearance was biphasic. The simultaneous injection of tracer and an excess of unlabelled IL-6 eliminated the initial rapid phase, and reduced the hepatic uptake to 14%. Light microscopic autoradiography showed 5% of the grains over non-hepatocytes, and 80% over hepatocytes, accumulating in areas around the bile canaliculi. Thereafter, degradation products accumulated in the bile. At 4.degree. C, isolated rat hepatocytes bound IL-6 with an apparent Kd of 39 pmol l-1 to a uniform class of 4500 receptors per cell with an apparent molar mass of 115-120 kg mol-1. The HepG2 human hepatocellular cell line bound IL-6 with an apparent Kd of 21 pmol l-1 to a uniform class of 1200 receptors per cell with an apparent molar mass of 155-160 kg mol-1. At 37.degree. C, both cell types endocytosed the bound ligand slowly, and degradation products appeared in the medium after a relatively long lag period (40 min in hepatocytes and 1 h in HepG2 cells).Keywords
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