Purification and Characterization of Multiplication‐Stimulating Activity
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 103 (2), 387-400
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1980.tb04325.x
Abstract
Multiplication-stimulating activity (MSA) refers to a family of insulin-like growth factors that have been purified from serum-free medium conditioned by a Buffalo rat liver cell line (BRL-3A). Using Dowex ion-exchange chromatography, gel chromatography on Sephadex G-75, and preparative disc acrylamide gel electrophoresis, several polypeptides with the full biological multiplication-stimulating activity have been isolated. One of these polypeptides, designated MSA II-1, previously has been used to study the relationship of the activity to the insulin-like growth factors (somatomedins) purified from human plasma. Polypeptide II-1 is a single chain polypeptide of molecular weight 8700. Glycine is the COOH-terminal amino acid. Edman degradation of carboxymethylated MSA II-1 did not reveal a free NH2-terminus. A polypeptide of lower molecular weight than MSA II-1 has also been purified. This polypeptide (MSA III-2) has been shown to be more potent than MSA II-1 in the rat-liver-membrane radioreceptor assay and in a competitive binding assay utilizing the rat-serum somatomedin-binding protein(s). The relationship of these various polypeptides has been investigated by gel filtration in guanidine hydrochloride and by acrylamide gel electrophoresis of the reduced and native polypeptides.Keywords
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