title: Molecular cloning of the acid-labile subunit of the rat insulin-like growth factor binding protein complex.
abstract: The insulin-like growth factors, IGF-I and IGF-II, circulate in both humans and rats as part of a 125-150 kDa complex comprising IGFs, the IGF binding protein IGFBP-3, and an acid-labile subunit. Clones encoding rat acid-labile subunit have been isolated from a rat liver cDNA library probed with a human acid-labile subunit cDNA. Two overlapping clones encode a leucine-rich protein of 576 amino acids preceded by a 27-residue signal sequence, with 78% homology to the human acid-labile subunit. Northern analysis of mRNA from adult rat brain, kidney, heart, lung, spleen, muscle and liver shows a major species of about 4.4 kb and minor bands of about 2 kb, 1.4 kb and 1 kb. The tissue distribution of this protein may therefore be wider than previously recognized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Baxter
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular / Q000379:methods; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D006801:Humans; D018969:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins; D008099:Liver / Q000502:physiology; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009928:Organ Specificity; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D051381:Rats; D011920:Rats, Inbred WF; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013002:Somatomedins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018969:Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D013002:Somatomedins; D004247:DNA