Solubilization and characterization of endothelin-1 receptors in rat cardiac tissue |
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| Authors: | J J Liu J Kelly D J Casley C I Johnston W G Nayler |
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| Institution: | Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. |
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| Abstract: | Adult rat cardiac endothelin-1 (ET-1) receptors were solubilized with 0.5% digitonin and then characterized. The receptors retained binding activity after solubilization. Binding was saturable (KD of 0.065 +/- 0.004 nM, Bmax of 94.6 +/- 4.5 fmol/mg protein; Hill coefficient of 0.987 +/- 0.017 n = 6) and pH dependent, with the binding increasing as the pH was decreased from 10 to 4, but decreasing dramatically as pH dropped to 2. Specifically bound 125I]-ET-1 was not dissociated by 2 x 10(-7) M unlabelled ET-1, but was dissociated by pH 10 and 2. Returning the pH to 7.4 restored the binding activity of the receptors. Unlabelled ET-1 (10(-12) - 10(-7) M) and sarafotoxin S6b(10(-12) - 10(-7) M) competed with 125I]-ET-1 for binding to the receptors. |
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