Photoreactive insulin analogues used to characterise the insulin receptor |
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Authors: | Martin H Wisher Michael D Baron Richard H Jones Peter H Sönksen Derek J Saunders Peter Thamm Dietrich Brandenburg |
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Institution: | Department of Medicine, St Thomas''s Hospital Medical School, London SE1 U.K.;Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut, D-5100 Aachen, F.R.G. |
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Abstract: | Three photoreactive insulin analogues (“photoprobes”) have been prepared in which an aryl azide group was substituted at either the A1, B1 or B29 positions of the insulin molecule. When incubated with rat liver plasma membranes and irradiated all three photoprobes covalently labelled specific insulin binding sites within the membrane. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of plasma membranes covalently tagged with either of the three 125I-photoprobes resolved one major specifically labelled polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 130,000. The labelled polypeptide migrated anomalously in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and a molecular weight of 90,000 for the polypeptide was determined from a ‘Ferguson’ plot using the combined results from gels of different acrylamide concentrations. Column chromatography of detergent solubilised photoprobe-labelled membranes indicated that the labelled polypeptide may be a subunit of a larger protein complex. |
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