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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 19, 601-612, Copyright © 1978 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Purification of calciferol-binding proteins from kidney: physicochemical and immunological properties

JG Ghazarian, PY Hsu, AW Girotti and JL Winkelhake

The calciferol-binding system of rat kidney cytosol has been purified and is shown to consist of two proteins, each capable of binding either 25-hydroxy-vitamin D3 (25-OH-D3) or 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25- (OH)2D3). The two proteins, designated A and B, have similar sedimentation coefficients (S20w) of 5.2 S. Component A binds 25-OH-D3 with a dissociation constant (Kd) of 10(-7) M while component B binds 1,25-(OH)2D3 with a Kd of 1.6 x 10(-8) M. The estimated molecular weights (Mr) of the two proteins are 105,000 for component A and 250,000 for component B. Amino acid analyses revealed that glutamic acid is the most abundant residue in both proteins, comprising 12% of the total number of amino acid residues. Immunodiffusion test using commercial anti-human serum group-specific protein antiserum gave a precipitin reaction when purified rat serum calciferol-binding protein was used as an antigen, but no reactions could be detected with proteins A and B. This result significantly eliminated the possibility of the presence of the rat serum binding protein in either of the purified kidney proteins. In contrast, anti-rat serum calciferol- binding protein antiserum prepared in rabbits interacted with the rat serum and kidney proteins. This result suggests that the antigenic determinants recognized by the antiserum against the rat serum calciferol-binding protein appear to be similar to those recognized in the kidney proteins A and B. Immunoelectrophoresis of the three rat proteins demonstrated dissimilar electrophoretic mobilities with the serum protein showing the least mobility, a property consistent with its higher lysine content relative to proteins A and B.
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