title: Selective depletion of small basic non-glycosylated proteins in diabetes.
abstract: Degradative rates of small basic non-glycosylated proteins are preferentially enhanced in rat liver cytosol during severe streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Synthetic rates of these classes of proteins are not selectively enhanced in diabetes, so small basic non-glycosylated proteins should be depleted from liver cytosol as a consequence of this disease. To test this hypothesis, proteins were analysed from normal animals, from diabetic animals receiving insulin and from diabetic animals after insulin withdrawal for 3 days. The proteins were separated according to subunit molecular weight by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, according to isoelectric point by isoelectric focusing and according to carbohydrate content by affinity chromatography with concanavalin A linked to agarose. Severe uncontrolled diabetes is associated with the predicted depletion of small basic non-glycosylated proteins from liver cytosol. The preferential degradation and loss of these protein classes may be of considerable physiological importance to the animal.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000032:analysis; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D007525:Isoelectric Focusing; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D011506:Proteins