Uptake of transferrin by rat peritoneal macrophages
- 30 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 52 (4), 631-640
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1982.tb03939.x
Abstract
Activated rat peritoneal macrophages bind 125I-apotransferrin in a time- and temperature-dependent process, the amount of transferrin taken up at 4.degree. C amounting to only .apprx. 15% of that bound at physiological temperatures. Binding is reversible, saturable and largely abolished by prior treatment of the cells with Pronase. A single class of high affinity binding sites is evidenced by Scatchard analysis, each cell binding .apprx. 110,000 apotransferrin molecules with an apparent affinity constant of 1.4 .times. 106 l mol-1. Macrophages are also capable of binding .apprx. 1/3 as much Fe-saturated transferrin as Fe-free transferrin. Since binding of neither form of the protein is influenced by the presence of the other, separate and independent binding sites for apotransferrin and Fe transferrin are presumed to exist on the macrophage.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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