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Solubilization of calcitonin-responsive renal cortical adenylate cyclase.

Purification of pork renal cortex membranes yielded a particulate adenylate cyclase retaining good sensitivity to stimulation by parathyroid hormone and glucagon and a modest but significant response to porcine calcitonin. Treatment of this partially purified membrane fraction with 0.5% Lubrol PX and 5 mM NaF released adenylate cyclase activity into a fraction which was not sedimented by centrifugation for 20 min at 37,000 X g or for 2 hours at 100,000 X g and passed through a Millipore filter (0.22 mum pore). This solubilized adenylate cyclase was stimulated by porcine calcitonin and NaF but not by parathyroid hormone or glucagon. On gel filtration (Sephadex G-200) in the presence of 1mM dithiothreitol and 5mM NaF, the major portion of the adenylate cyclase activity eluted with the void volume of the column and showed 2.0-fold stimulation with 10 muM calcitonin. Binding of 125I-labeled porcine calcitonin was demonstrated in the 37,000 X g and the 100,000 X g supernatants. From 74 to 86% of the observed binding could be blocked by the addition of unlabeled porcine calcitonin to the reaction mixture. Addition of salmon calcitonin, parathyroid hormone, or glucagon blocked only 12 to 18% of the binding. The dose-response curves for inhibition of binding of iodinated calcitonin by unlabeled calcitonin and the activation of adenylate cyclase by the hormone each showed 50% maximal effect at a concentration between 4.5 and 8 muM porcine calcitonin and maximal effect at a concentration between 33 and 66 muM porcine calcitonin.[1]

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  1. Solubilization of calcitonin-responsive renal cortical adenylate cyclase. Queener, S.F., Fleming, J.W., Bell, N.H. J. Biol. Chem. (1975) [Pubmed]
 
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