Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 69, 1291-1301, Copyright © 1989 by Endocrine Society

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Molecular forms of serum insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding proteins in man: relationships with growth hormone and IGFs and physiological significance

S Hardouin, M Gourmelen, P Noguiez, D Seurin, M Roghani, Y Le Bouc, G Povoa, TJ Merimee, P Hossenlopp and M Binoux
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unite 142, Hopital Trousseau, Paris, France.

Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF-II are associated in the blood with specific binding proteins (BPs), forming complexes that elute in gel filtration with estimated mol wt around 40 and 150 kD. The latter appears to be under GH control. Five molecular forms of BP (41.5, 38.5, 34, 30, and 24 kD) have been identified by Western blotting using 125I-labeled IGF. All five forms are present in the smaller complexes, but only the 41.5- and 38.5-kD forms are found in the larger complexes. In this study immunoblotting showed that the 41.5- and 38.5-kD forms were recognized by antibodies directed against the GH- dependent BP purified from human plasma, and the 30-kD form was recognized by antibodies directed against the BP purified from amniotic fluid. The 34- and 24-kD forms proved to be immunologically unrelated to the other three. In sera with large quantities of the 41.5- and 38.5- kD forms, an additional band was often observed immediately ahead of the migration front of the 30 kD band. This was recognized by the anti- GH-dependent BP antibody and probably corresponds to a degradation product of the 41.5- and 38.5-kD BPs. Serum 41.5- and 38.5-kD BPs have been found to be elevated in acromegaly, where GH hypersecretion causes increased IGF-I levels, and diminished in cases of genetic or idiopathic GH deficiency and defects of the GH receptor (Laron's syndrome), where both IGF-I and IGF-II are decreased, as well as in Pygmy adults and children who have isolated IGF-I deficiency. In all of these conditions, the proportions of the 34- and 30-kD forms were inversely related to those of the 41.5- and 38.5-forms. Under treatment, the BP profiles tended to return to normal. In cases of GH deficiency caused by a tumor, the BP profiles resembled those of hypopituitary or normal serum, depending on whether IGF levels were diminished or normal. It, therefore, seems that BP synthesis is coordinated with IGF-I synthesis and may not be directly GH dependent. The results of neutral pH gel filtration analysis of hypopituitary (idiopathic and tumoral) and normal sera point to a relationship between the levels of circulating IGFs and those of the 150-kD IGF-BP complex whose binding units are the 41.5- and 38.5-kD BPs. It, therefore, seems that the 150-kD complex controls the bioavailability of IGF-I and IGF-II.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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