Effect of cytosol fractions from lutropin-stimulated rat testes on pregnenolone production by mitochondria from normal rat testes.
Effect of cytosol fractions from lutropin-stimulated rat testes on pregnenolone production by mitochondria from normal rat testes.
复制标题
促黄体素刺激的大鼠睾丸细胞质组分对正常大鼠睾丸线粒体产生孕烯醇酮的影响。
DOI:
10.1016/0304-4165(78)90068-5
复制
发表时间:
1978
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
H. van der Molen
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
C. Bakker;M. P. van der Plank;H. van der Molen
The rate limiting step in the production of steroids in the testis is the mitochondrial conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone. This conversion can be stimulated by lutropin, but the precise interaction between lutropin-induced cytoplasmic factors and the mitochondrial activity in steroid production is as yet unknown. The results described in the present paper concern the steroid production of isolated mitochondrial fractions in recombination experiments with isolated supernatant fractions from total testes homogenates. Cyanoketone as well as SU-10603, an inhibitor of steroid 17α-hydroxylase activity are required to block pregnenolone metabolism. The results show that the cytoplasm contains lutropin-induced factor(s) which can exert its effect in vitro on the cholestorel side-chain cleavage activity in intact mitochondria isolated from control testes.