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Ammonium chloride causes reversible inhibition of low density lipoprotein receptor recycling and accelerates receptor degradation
Authors:K I Grant  L A Casciola  G A Coetzee  D A Sanan  W Gevers  D R van der Westhuyzen
Affiliation:Medical Research Council/University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Abstract:The effects of the acidotropic agent, NH4Cl, on the recycling and turnover of low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors were analyzed in human skin fibroblasts using ligand binding assays, [35S]methionine pulse-chase experiments, and electron microscopy. NH4Cl did not prevent receptor internalization but caused a marked redistribution of LDL receptors to intracellular sites (endosomes) that was completely dependent on the presence of apolipoprotein-B- or -E-containing ligands. Maximal inhibition of recycling was observed at LDL concentrations that only partially saturated receptors, suggesting that the receptors function as oligomers. In contrast, full receptor occupancy by the multivalent, apolipoprotein-E-containing beta-very low density lipoprotein was required for the same effect. The intracellular accumulation was reversible and the majority of receptors returned to the cell surface when NH4Cl was removed after short treatments. The rate of degradation of LDL receptors was greatly accelerated in the presence of NH4Cl and ligand, with a t1/2 of about 2 h (approximately 6 times faster than receptor degradation in the absence of NH4Cl). Neither the redistribution nor the accelerated loss of immunoprecipitable LDL receptors was observed in an LDL receptor internalization-defective mutant cell line. We conclude that NH4Cl inhibited the recycling specifically of occupied receptors, thereby accelerating their degradation, probably in endosomes.
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