A monomer-dimer model explains the results of radiation inactivation: binding characteristics of insulin receptor purified from human placenta.
A monomer-dimer model explains the results of radiation inactivation: binding characteristics of insulin receptor purified from human placenta.
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单体-二聚体模型解释了辐射失活的结果:从人胎盘中纯化的胰岛素受体的结合特征。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00409a020
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发表时间:
1988
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2.9
通讯作者:
Harmon,JT
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作者:
Fujita-Yamaguchi,Y;Harmon,JT
Revised Manuscript Received January 5, 1988 abstract: The technique of radiationinactivation has been used on highly purified human placental insulin receptor in order to determine the functional molecular size responsible for the insulin binding and to evaluate the “affinity regulator” hypothesis, which has been proposed to explain the increase in specific insulin binding to rat liver membranes observed at low radiation doses [Harmon, J. T., Hedo, J. A., & Kahn, C. R.(1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 6875-6881], Three different types of inactivation curves were observed:(1) biphasic with an enhanced binding activity after exposure to low radiation doses,(2) nonlinear with no change in binding activity after exposure to low radiation doses, and (3) linear with a loss in the binding activity with increasing radiation exposures. A monomer-dimer model was the simplest model that best described the three types of radiation inactivation curves observed. The model predicts that an increase ininsulin binding activity would result after exposure to low radiation doses when the initial dimer/monomer ratio is equal to or greater than 1 and a monomer is more active than a dimer. The monomer size of the bindingactivity was estimated to be 227 000daltons by this model. This value most likely reflects the size of the monomeric afi form. To substantiate this model, the purified receptor was fractionated bySepharose CL-6B chro-matography. The insulin binding profile of this column indicated two peaks. Further studies revealed the following:(i) peak I (a2/? 2-rich) and peak II (a/3-rich) receptors showed curvilinear Scatchard plotsand straight Scatchard plots, respectively, and (ii) specific activity of the peak I receptors was estimated to be 26% of that of the peak II receptors under our standard conditions [50 mM tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane hydrochloride, pH 7.4], These studiessuggest that the affinity regulator does not exist as a separate structural protein but is dueto the dimeric form of the receptor. The dimeric form (a2/32) possesses a much lower specific activity for insulin binding than does the monomeric afi form (underthe standard conditions), but the dimeric structure is necessary to observe the negative cooperative binding isotherm. e insulin receptor is a membrane glycoprotein that is re-sponsible for transferring the signal from the exterior to the interior of target cells and leading to insulin-dependent biological actions (Kahn et al., 1981). The structure of the