Affiliation:
1. Androgen Physiology Department, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, U.K.
Abstract
1. By covalently linking nuclear components from hormone-sensitive cells to Sepharose 2B, it is possible to investigate the interaction between nuclear components and cytoplasmic receptor-steroid complexes by affinity chromatography. 2. Many factors are implicated in the specifity of nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions, including the nature of the nuclear components, the presence of the cytoplasmic receptor protein and the provision of the appropriate steroid ligand. 3. Two distinct sets of binding sites are present in nuclear extracts immobilized to Sepharose 2B, namely a small number of specific high-affinity sites and a larger number of non-specific low affinity-sites. 4. Considerable evidence supports the importance of the high-affinity binding sites in the manifestation of hormonal specificity in different tissues. Although the study has centred largely on androgenresponsive systems, the findings are germane to cytoplasmic-nuclear interactions in general. 5. The high-affinity or acceptor sites in nuclear extracts reside in the basic but non-histone protein fraction. 6. Hormonal specificity is seemingly maintained by both the cytoplasmic and nuclear components, and the results are discussed in the context of the mechanism of action of steroid hormones.
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry
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