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. 1978 Oct 15;176(1):233–239. doi: 10.1042/bj1760233

Effect of corticotropin treatment in vivo on the synthesis of a specific adrenal cytosolic protein. Characterization by dual-labelling technique and polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis.

A Dazord, D Gallet, J M Saez
PMCID: PMC1186224  PMID: 215130

Abstract

The effect of corticotropin in vivo on total and specific protein synthesis in the adrenal was studied. Adrenal slices from control and corticotropin-treated animals were incubated with [14C]- and [3H]-leucine respectively, followed by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of subcellular components. With this sensitive dual-labelling technique the following results were obtained. There was a general trophic effect on most adrenal proteins, but corticotropin produced a marked stimulation of a specific adrenal cytosolic protein. This protein has mol.wt. approx. 30 000 and pI 5.5. Corticotropin increased the incorporation of labelled leucine into proteins within 4 h, but no effect was observed before 2 h and after 16 h there was no further increase. These data suggest that this protein is not involved in the corticosteroidogenic action of corticotropin, but rather in the trophic action of this hormone.

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