Abstract
Rat hepatocytes in the continuous presence of [ 3H]asialo-orosomucoid quickly establish a steady state number of free and occupied surface receptors and rate of endocytosis. These values do not change even though many times more glycoprotein is internalized than there are surface receptors per cell. However, when cells endocytose only one round of surface bound [ 3H]asialo-orosomucoid at 37°C the internalization of glycoprotein is about 5 times faster than the increase of functional receptors on the cell surface. At 18°C new surface receptors appear at only 6% of the rate of internalization of pre-bound asialoglycoprotein. The results suggest that reutilization of asialoglycoprotein receptors is preferentially inhibited at low temperature and that receptor-ligand complexes enter the cell.
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