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JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY
卷 52, 期 4, 页码 491-499出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/002215540405200407
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beta-carotene 15,15 '-mono-oxygenase; human; epithelia; vitamin A; beta-carotene; immunohistochemistry
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK62192] Funding Source: Medline
We studied the cell type-specific expression of human beta-carotene 15,15'-mono-oxygenase (BCO1), an enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the conversion of dietary provitamin A carotenoids to vitamin A. Immunohistochemical analysis using two monoclonal antibodies against different epitopes of the protein revealed that BCO1 is expressed in epithelial cells in a variety of human tissues, including mucosa and glandular cells of stomach, small intestine, and colon, parenchymal cells in liver, cells that make up the exocrine glands in pancreas, glandular cells in prostate, endometrium, and mammary tissue, kidney tubules, and in keratinocytes of the squamous epithelium of skin. Furthermore, BCO1 is detected in steroiclogenic cells in testis, ovary, and adrenal gland, as well as skeletal muscle cells. Epithelia in general are structures that are very sensitive to vitamin A deficiency, and although the extraintestinal function of BCO1 is unclear, the finding that the enzyme is expressed in all epithelia examined thus far leads us to suggest that BCO1 may be important for local synthesis of vitamin A, constituting a back-up pathway of vitamin A synthesis during times of insufficient dietary intake of vitamin A.
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