Insulin receptor: covalent labeling and identification of subunits.
AUTOR(ES)
Jacobs, S
RESUMO
Two methods were used to label insulin receptors covalently with 125I. In the first, an aryl azide derivative of insulin, 125I-labeled 4-azido-2-nitrophenyl-insulin, was synthesized and used to photolabel the binding region of the insulin receptor in rat liver membranes and human placenta membranes. In the second, insulin receptors were purified from rat liver membranes and labeled with 125I by use of chloramine-T; this method presumably has no specificity for the binding region of the receptor. The proteins labeled by both methods were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after or without reduction by dithiothreitol. The photoaffinity label specifically labeled a single band in both liver and placenta that had an apparent molecular weight of 135,000 after reduction. A band with similar mobility was present in the chloramine-T-labeled preparation, which also contained a second major band with an apparent molecular weight of 45,000. Without reduction, both methods resulted in a single labeled band with an apparent molecular weight of about 310,000. These results indicate that the insulin receptor of both liver and placenta has a subunit of molecular weight 135,000 that binds insulin and that the receptor may be composed of at least two different subunits that are linked together or greatly stabilized by disulfide bonds.
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