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Synthesis of the acid-labile subunit of the growth-hormone-dependent insulin-like-growth-factor-binding protein complex by rat hepatocytes in culture. 1991

C D Scott, and R C Baxter
Department of Endocrinology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, N.S.W., Australia.

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) circulate predominantly in a growth-hormone-dependent ternary complex of 125-150 kDa. This study investigates the production of the alpha-subunit of this complex, an acid-labile glycoprotein without intrinsic IGF-binding activity, which binds to the IGF-binding protein IGFBP-3 in the presence of IGFs. Medium conditioned by primary cultures of rat hepatocytes produced alpha-subunit with similar complex-forming activity to purified rat serum alpha-subunit. Bovine growth hormone stimulated hepatocyte production of both IGF-I and alpha-subunit. IGF-I tracer bound to pure rat IGFBP-3 was converted from approx. 60 kDa to 150 kDa by serum alpha-subunit, whole rat serum or rat hepatocyte culture medium; this converting activity was destroyed by transient acidification. In contrast, IGF-I bound to hepatocyte-medium IGF-binding proteins could not be converted into a high-molecular-mass from by purified rat serum alpha-subunit. Rat serum and hepatocyte-medium alpha-subunit appeared identical by electrophoretic analysis, since reaction of either with cross-linked IGF-I.IGFBP-3 tracer resulted in bands of molecular mass 130 kDa and 160 kDa, probably representing intact and partially deglycosylated complexes. However, IGF-binding proteins in rat serum and hepatocyte medium were different, in that affinity labelling of medium binding proteins, depleted of endogenous IGFs, showed no evidence of the 50-60 kDa cluster of bands characteristic of rat serum IGFBP-3. We conclude that rat hepatocytes in primary culture produce alpha-subunit similar to that in rat serum; however, alpha-subunit is unable to form ternary complexes with hepatocyte IGF-binding proteins, since cultured hepatocytes do not secrete IGFBP-3.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007334 Insulin-Like Growth Factor I A well-characterized basic peptide believed to be secreted by the liver and to circulate in the blood. It has growth-regulating, insulin-like, and mitogenic activities. This growth factor has a major, but not absolute, dependence on GROWTH HORMONE. It is believed to be mainly active in adults in contrast to INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II, which is a major fetal growth factor. IGF-I,Somatomedin C,IGF-1,IGF-I-SmC,Insulin Like Growth Factor I,Insulin-Like Somatomedin Peptide I,Insulin Like Somatomedin Peptide I
D007700 Kinetics The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D008099 Liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances. Livers
D008970 Molecular Weight The sum of the weight of all the atoms in a molecule. Molecular Weights,Weight, Molecular,Weights, Molecular
D011920 Rats, Inbred WF An inbred strain of rat that is used in BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. Rats, Inbred Wistar Furth,Rats, Wistar Furth,Rats, WF,Inbred WF Rat,Inbred WF Rats,Rat, Inbred WF,Rat, WF,WF Rat,WF Rat, Inbred,WF Rats,WF Rats, Inbred,Wistar Furth Rats
D011956 Receptors, Cell Surface Cell surface proteins that bind signalling molecules external to the cell with high affinity and convert this extracellular event into one or more intracellular signals that alter the behavior of the target cell (From Alberts, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2nd ed, pp693-5). Cell surface receptors, unlike enzymes, do not chemically alter their ligands. Cell Surface Receptor,Cell Surface Receptors,Hormone Receptors, Cell Surface,Receptors, Endogenous Substances,Cell Surface Hormone Receptors,Endogenous Substances Receptors,Receptor, Cell Surface,Surface Receptor, Cell
D002352 Carrier Proteins Proteins that bind or transport specific substances in the blood, within the cell, or across cell membranes. Binding Proteins,Carrier Protein,Transport Protein,Transport Proteins,Binding Protein,Protein, Carrier,Proteins, Carrier
D002478 Cells, Cultured Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others. Cultured Cells,Cell, Cultured,Cultured Cell
D005260 Female Females
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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