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Localization of 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase (DCR) in rat liver was studied using immunoenzyme and immunogold techniques. The animals were fed on a laboratory diet with or without 2% di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), a peroxisome proliferator, for two weeks. For light microscopy (LM), semithin Epon sections were stained by immunoenzyme technique after removal of the epoxy resin. For electron microscopy (EM), ultrathin Lowicryl K4M sections were stained by the protein A-gold technique. By LM, in untreated rats reaction deposits showing the antigenic sites for DCR were present in the cytoplasmic granules. Hepatocytes, epithelial cells of interlobular bile duct, and sinus-lining cells contained these granules. After administration of DEHP, the cytoplasmic granules stained similarly. The staining intensity of the heaptocytes increased markedly, but that of the other cells decreased. The sinus-lining cells became mostly negative. By EM, gold particles indicating the antigenic sites for DCR were present in both the mitochondria and peroxisomes of hepatocytes of untreated rats. In the other cells, the gold label was confined to the mitochondria. After administration of DEHP, labelling intensity of the hepatocyte mitochondria increased markedly, but that of the peroxisomes conversely decreased. Quantitative analysis of labelling density showed that the mitochondrial DCR increased to about three times that in the untreated rat, but the peroxisomal DCR decreased to 1/6. The results show that in the rat liver, DCR exists in both, mitochondria and peroxisomes. DEHP can induce mitochondrial DCR, but not peroxisomal DCR.
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Yokota, S., Hirose, A. & Mizugaki, M. Immunocytochemical localization of 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase in the liver of normal and di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate-fed rats. Histochem J 20, 679–687 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01002748
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