Estradiol Binding in Rat Thymus Cells
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Hormone Research
- Vol. 12 (4), 224-232
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000179124
Abstract
Estradiol binding in preparations of female rat thymi is demonstrated by three different approaches (dextran-coated charcoal method, immunofluorescence technique and thin-layer gel filtration). Scatchard’s analysis of [3H]-estradiol proves consistent with the existence of a single class of receptor sites, having a dissociation constant (Kd) of about 2 X 10-10M. Steroid binding specificity in the thymus is similar to that found in the uterus. On thin-layer gel filtration the binding appears in the 8S region similar to that observed for the uterus. With the immunofluorescence sandwich technique, estradiol proves to bind to a specific cytoplasmic component that subsequently migrates into the nucleus.Keywords
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