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  • Title: Copper deficiency increases hepatic apolipoprotein B secretion and mRNA editing in rats.
    Author: Reaves SK, Hoogeveen RC, Wang YR, Wu JY, Lei KY.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1996 Aug; 271(2 Pt 1):C595-604. PubMed ID: 8770000.
    Abstract:
    Male weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to copper-deficient (9.0 mumol Cu/kg diet) or copper-adequate (102 mumol Cu/kg diet) dietary treatments for 6 wk. Pulse-chase studies using freshly isolated rat liver parenchymal cells demonstrated that apolipoprotein B (apoB)-48 and apoB-100 syntheses were not altered, but secretion was increased twofold in hepatocytes derived from copper-deficient rats. Both plasma apoB-48 and apoB-100 levels were increased by copper deficiency, but only the apoB-48 increase was significant. Hepatic apoB mRNA editing, expressed as a ratio of apoB-48 mRNA to apoB-48 plus apoB-100 mRNA, was significantly increased from 60.8% in copper-adequate to 70.2% in copper-deficient rats. Moreover, hepatic apoB mRNA abundance was not significantly altered by copper deficiency. Thus the increased amount of nascent apoB-48 secreted into the medium as well as the enhanced apoB mRNA editing may have contributed to the differential increase in plasma apoB-48 over apoB-100 level in copper-deficient rats.
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