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Research Article

Effects of Salt Extraction on the Quantitation of Nuclear Estrogen Receptors: Interference by Secondary Estrogen Binding Sites

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Pages 415-438 | Published online: 26 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

The effects of salt-extraction on type I and type II estrogen binding sites were examined in uterine nuclei. Injection (10 ug) of estradiol or estriol in adult ovariectomized rats induced maximum numbers (80–100%, ~ 1 pmole/uterus) of 0.4 M KCL resistant type I estrogen complexes at 1 hour. Only estradiol, which sustained these levels for long periods of time (4–24 hours) stimulated true uterine growth.

Likewise, a single injection of estradiol, but not estriol, also elevated nuclear type II sites throughout the entire uterine growth period (1–48 hours). However extraction of these nuclei from estradiol injected rats with 0.4 M KCL increased the numbers of type II sites from ~ 1 pmole/uterus (non-extracted nuclei) to ~ 8 pmoles/uterus (salt resistant plus salt-extractable fractions). Sixty percent of these sites were resistant to salt-extraction. Continuous exposure to either estradiol or estriol by beeswax implants stimulated nuclear type II sites which were highly resistant (80%) to KCL-extraction, and additional sites were not exposed by high salt. Thus chronic treatment with both estrogens “locked in” nuclear type II sites such that they were resistant to KCL-extraction. This resistance of type II sites to salt-extraction correlated with the ability of estradiol and estriol implants to stimulate true uterine growth. The procedures presented here for nuclear preparation and assay have reduced non-specific binding considerably in the uterine system, and may eliminate the need to perform exchange assays on salt-extracted nuclei in other systems.

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