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Human Variant Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin (SHBG) with an Additional Carbohydrate Chain Has a Reduced Clearance Rate in Rabbit¹

Laboratoire de la Clinique Endocrinologique (P.C., H.L., M.P., C.B., C.B.), and Laboratoire Central de Biochimie (H.D.), Hôpital de l’Antiquaille, 69321 Lyon Cedex 05; INSERM U 329 (P.C., C.G., M.P.), Hôpital Debrousse, 69005 Lyon, France

Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Michel Pugeat, Laboratoire de la Clinique Endocrinologique, Hôpital de l’Antiquaille, 1 rue de l’Antiquaille, 69321 Lyon Cedex, France. E-mail: laboendo{at}cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr

Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is the specific plasma transport protein for sex steroid hormones in humans. Considerable variation in SHBG plasma concentration exists between individuals, irrespective of gender, body weight, or thyroid status. In the present work, the influence of carbohydrate chains on the half-life of human SHBG (hSHBG) was investigated using a rabbit model. A variant hSHBG, with a point mutation in exon 8 (GAC AAC) encoding an amino acid substitution (Asp327Asn), which introduces an additional consensus site for N-glycosylation, has recently been identified. This mutation suppresses a recognition site for the restriction enzyme Bbs-I, allowing the development of a simple restriction-fragments length polymorphism (RFLP) screening procedure. In a population of patients (272 female and 49 male) consulting in our Endocrinology Clinic, 48 patients (41 female and 7 male) were heterozygous for the variant hSHBG allele and 3 (2 female and 1 male) were homozygous. In this population, the total variant allele frequency was 0.083. The hSHBG genotype, as determined by RFLP, corresponded in all cases to the phenotype as determined by the migration profile of hSHBG by Western blot analysis.

The influence of such an additional glycosylation site on the biological half-life of variant hSHBG was investigated. SHBG from serum of patients carrying one of the three hSHBG genotypes was purified and labeled with biotin, then injected into rabbits, as we have recently described for rabbit SHBG. Biotinylated hSHBG was captured from rabbit serum samples on tubes coated with an anti-hSHBG antibody and detected by luminometry with the streptavidine-alkaline phosphatase-dioxetane (AMPPD) system. The results showed that the half-life value was significantly higher (P < 0.05) for SHBG purified from homozygous variant serum (t_1/2ß = 51.43 ± 1.15 and 63.63 ± 3.92 h, for male and a female subjects SHBG respectively) than for SHBG purified from heterozygous variant serum (t_1/2ß = 40.19 ± 0.12 h) or wild-type (t_1/2ß = 38.18 ± 7.22 h).

This study demonstrated that an additional carbohydrate chain on hSHBG decreases the clearance rate of this protein. The low frequency of this variant allele means that further study will be required to determine whether it is associated with higher serum SHBG concentration. .

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