title: Purification and characterization of the androgen receptor from rat ventral prostate.
abstract: The androgen receptor has been purified from rat ventral prostate cytosol by a combination of differential DNA-Sepharose 4B chromatography and testosterone 17 beta-hemisuccinyl-3,3'-diaminodipropylamine-Sepharose 4B affinity chromatography. Approximately 8 micrograms of protein was obtained from 38 g of rat ventral prostate, with a yield of 24%. The receptor was purified approximately 120 000-fold. Silver nitrate staining of a sodium dodecyl sulfate (NaDodSO4)-polyacrylamide gel revealed a major polypeptide band migrating at 86 000 daltons. Affinity labeling of a partially purified receptor preparation with either 17-hydroxy-17 alpha-[3H]methyl-4,9,11-estratrien-3-one or 17 beta-hydroxy-[1,2,4,5,6,7,16,17-3H8]-5 alpha-androstan-3-one 17-(2-bromoacetate) produced a major band of radioactivity migrating at 86 000 daltons on a NaDodSO4 gel. Under nondenaturing conditions, a Mr of 85 000 was determined by gel filtration (42 A) and sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis (4.5 S). The purified receptor had an isoelectric point of 6.3 [3H]-4,5 alpha-Dihydrotestosterone, bound to the purified receptor, was displaced with 4,5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone greater than testosterone much greater than progesterone greater than 5 alpha-androstane-3 alpha, 17 beta-diol greater than 17 beta-estradiol greater than cortisol. A number of physicochemical properties of the purified receptor were similar to those of the receptor in crude cytosol.
mesh_terms: D000728:Androgens / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D007526:Isoelectric Point; D008297:Male; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011467:Prostate / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011944:Receptors, Androgen / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D011987:Receptors, Steroid / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens; D011944:Receptors, Androgen; D011987:Receptors, Steroid