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  • Title: Binding of 3'-methyl-N,N-dimethyl-4-aminoazobenzene metabolites to rat liver cytosol proteins and ligandin subunits.
    Author: Ohmi N, Bhargava M, Arias IM.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1981 Sep; 41(9 Pt 1):3461-4. PubMed ID: 6790166.
    Abstract:
    Twenty min after i.p. administration of 3'-[14C]methyl-N,N-dimethyl-4-aminoazobenzene in corn oil to rats, 0.73% of administered radioactivity was present in the liver. Only 0.45% of radioactivity present in liver was recovered in the nuclear fraction, whereas 25% was present in the cytosol fraction. Twenty-seven % of cytosolic radioactivity was trichloroacetic acid precipitable, and 2% was immunoprecipitable with monospecific anti-rat liver ligandin immunoglobulin G. After 3 hr of administration, 3.2% of administered radioactivity was present in the liver, 40% of which was in the cytosol. Although 59% of radioactivity present in liver cytosol was trichloroacetic acid precipitable as compared to 27% at 20 min, the radioactivity precipitated by anti-ligandin immunoglobulin G was still 2%. When liver cytosol obtained from rats after 20 min of 3'-[14C]methyl-N,N-dimethyl-4-aminoazobenzene administration was fractionated on a Sephadex G-75 column, three peaks of radioactivity were observed. When cytosol was subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis and fluorography, radioactivity was mainly associated with 5 proteins with molecular weights of 88,000, 47,000, 41,000, 31,000, and 22,000. When the immunoprecipitate obtained from cytosol with anti-ligandin immunoglobulin G was subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis and fluorography, radioactivity was exclusively associated with the subunit of ligandin with a molecular weight of 22,000. Approximately 90% of the radioactivity in the immunoprecipitate was covalently associated with this subunit. These studies reveal that 3'-methyl-N,N-dimethyl-4-aminoazobenzene or its metabolites are selectively bound to the subunit of ligandin with a molecular weight of 22,000 and four other cytosol proteins in vivo.
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