Role of glucocorticoids on the maturation of brush border enzymes in fetal rat gut endoderm

1983 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1150-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kedinger ◽  
P. M. Simon-Assmann ◽  
B. Lacroix ◽  
K. Haffen
1974 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Booth ◽  
A. John Kenny

A simple method for the isolation of microvilli from kidney brush border is described. The method depends on the preferential aggregation of other subcellular structures by bivalent metal ions. MgCl2 is added to a homogenate of cortical tissue prepared from frozen rabbit kidneys. Aggregated material is removed by a low-speed centrifugation and the supernatant centrifuged at 15000g to yield a pellet enriched in microvilli. This is resuspended and given a second treatment with Mg2+. The purified preparation is obtained after four short differential centrifugations. The six brush-border enzymes that were monitored were enriched 11–17-fold compared with the original homogenate and were obtained in about 10% yield. Marker enzymes for other subcellular components showed the preparation to be essentially free of mitochondria and to be less contaminated with endoplasmic reticulum and baso-lateral plasma membranes than are conventional brush-border preparations. The main contamination was of lysosomal origin, about half of which was attributable to adsorbed acid hydrolases rather than to intact lysosomes. The aggregated components in the low-speed pellet bound less Mg2+than did the microvillus fraction. A possible mechanism for the role of Mg2+is discussed.


1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Simon-Assmann ◽  
M. Kedinger ◽  
J. F. Grenier ◽  
K. Haffen

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Jung ◽  
G Schulze ◽  
C Reinholdt

Abstract We studied how much of the lysosomal enzyme N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (EC 3.2.1.30) and of the brush-border enzymes alanine aminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.2), alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1), and gamma-glutamyltransferase (EC 2.3.2.2) was excreted in urine over 8 h after a high intake of fluid (22 mL per kilogram of body weight). The hourly excretion of all four enzymes increased with the increasing urine flow rate. The excretion rate of the brush-border enzymes was more markedly influenced than that of N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase. By relating the enzyme excretion to urinary creatinine we could reduce the variability of brush-border enzyme output and could completely compensate for the effect of diuresis on the excretion of N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase.


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