In vitro and in vivo binding of progestins to the androgen receptor of mouse kidney: correlation with biological activities.
In vitro and in vivo binding of progestins to the androgen receptor of mouse kidney: correlation with biological activities.
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孕激素与小鼠肾脏雄激素受体的体外和体内结合:与生物活性的相关性。
作者:
T. Brown;L. Bullock;C. Bardin
Progestins possess androgenic, antiandrogenic, and synandrogenic activities on androgen-responsive tissues. Several recent studies suggest that some or all of these actions may be initiated in mouse kidney via progestin interaction with the androgen receptor. All of the progestins studied, including medroxyprogesterone acetate [6a-methyl-17a-hydroxy-pregn-4-ene-3,20-dione acetate (MPA)], cyproterone acetate [6-chloro-17a-hydroxy-la,2a-methylene-pregna-4,6-diene-3,20-dione acetate (CPA)], 6a-methylprogesterone (6MP), and progesterone(P), effectively competed with [3H]testosterone ([3H]T) for binding sites on androgen receptors in mouse kidney cytosol. Their relative binding affinities were T » 6MP > CPA > MPA = P, indicating that MPA, the most biologically potent androgenic progestin, bound to the cytoplasmic androgen receptor with less affinity than 6MP or the antiandrogenic progestin CPA. To further investigate the relationship between binding affinity and biological activity of progestins, an assay usin...