Absence of covalent binding by insulin to erythrocyte and reticulocyte insulin receptors |
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Authors: | G M Ward S Clark L C Harrison |
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Institution: | 1. University of Melbourne Department of Medicine Victoria 3050, Australia;2. Department of diabetes and Endocrinology The Royal Melbourne Hospital Victoria 3050, Australia |
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Abstract: | We investigated whether insulin forms covalent bonds with its receptors on erythrocytes and reticulocytes, as it does in adipocytes (1). Of the 125I]-insulin specifically bound at 37 degrees C to human and rat erythrocytes and rat reticulocytes, only 1.5-2.3% was non-dissociable on extensive washing. When ghosts prepared from the washed cells were solubilized in Triton X-100, only 0.6-1.5% of the specifically bound radioactivity appeared in the void volume of a Sephadex G-50 column. Moreover in contrast to adipocytes, this high molecular weight radioactivity was not immunoprecipitable by antibodies to the insulin receptor and was dissociated during chromatography in sodium dodecyl sulphate. Thus we have been unable to demonstrate the formation of covalent bonds between insulin and its receptors on erythrocytes and reticulocytes. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that covalent binding of insulin is a necessary receptor modification for insulin's metabolic effects. |
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Keywords: | BSA bovine serum albumin SDS sodium dodecyl sulphate PMSF phenylmethyl sulphonyl fluoride |
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