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The Nature of the Immunoreactive Lipotropins in Human Plasma and Tissue Extracts
Koshi Tanaka, … , Wendell E. Nicholson, David N. Orth
Koshi Tanaka, … , Wendell E. Nicholson, David N. Orth
Published July 1, 1978
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 1978;62(1):94-104. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI109119.
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The Nature of the Immunoreactive Lipotropins in Human Plasma and Tissue Extracts

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This study was designed to establish definitively the nature of immunoreactive lipotropin (IR-LPH) in human plasma and tissue extracts. Using gel filtration, gel filtration under denaturing conditions, cationic exchange chromatography, immunoprecipitation, and radioimmunoassay, we have studied normal and tumorous human pituitaries, ectopic ACTH- and LPH-secreting tumors, plasma from normal subjects before and after dexamethasone administration, and plasma from patients with primary adrenal insufficiency and pituitary and nonpituitary ACTH- and LPH-secreting tumors. Except in the plasma and tumors of occasional patients with ectopic ACTH syndrome, the smallest IR-LPH appears to be λ-lipotropin (λLPH), which is often the predominant and occasionally the only IR-LPH present. The other major peptide appears to be βLPH, a 91-amino acid molecule that contains λLPH as its 1-58 sequence. Larger immunoreactive materials were observed in some specimens, but the “big” LPH in one plasma was shown to be λLPH bound to IgG.

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Koshi Tanaka, Wendell E. Nicholson, David N. Orth

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