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(American Journal of Pathology. 1999;155:1487-1498.)
© 1999 American Society for Investigative Pathology

Technical Advances

Cationic Colloidal Silica Membrane Perturbation as a Means of Examining Changes at the Sinusoidal Surface during Liver Regeneration

Donna Beer Stolz^*, Mark A. Ross^*, Hebah M. Salem^*, Wendy M. Mars, George K. Michalopoulos and Katsuhiko Enomoto

From the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology,^*
and the Department of Pathology,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Department of Pathology,
Akita University Medical School, Akita, Japan

By employing the cationic colloidal silica membrane density perturbation technique, we examined growth factor receptor and extracellular matrix (ECM) changes at the sinusoidal surface during rat liver regeneration 72 hours after 70% partial hepatectomy (PHx). At this time after PHx, hepatocyte division has mostly subsided, while sinusoidal endothelial cell (SEC) proliferation is initiating, resulting in avascular hepatocyte islands. Because of the discontinuous nature of the surface of liver SEC, ECM proteins underlying the SEC, as well as SEC luminal membrane proteins, are available to absorption to the charged silica beads when the liver is perfused with the colloid. Subsequent liver homogenization and density centrifugation yield two separate fractions, enriched in SECs as well as hepatocyte basolateral membrane-specific proteins up to 50-fold over whole liver lysates. This technique facilitates examination of changes in protein composition that influence or occur as a result of SEC mitogenesis and migration during regeneration of the liver. When ECM and receptor proteins from SEC-enriched fractions were examined by Western immunoblotting, urokinase plasminogen activator receptor, fibronectin, and plasmin increased at the SEC surface 72 hours after PHx. Epidermal growth factor receptor, plasminogen, SPARC (secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine, also called osteonectin or BM40), and collagen IV decreased, and fibrinogen subunits and c-Met expression remained constant 72 hours after PHx when compared to control liver. These results display the usefulness of the cationic colloidal silica membrane isolation protocol. They also show considerable modulation of surface components that may regulate angiogenic processes at the end stage of liver regeneration during the reformation of sinusoids.

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