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Endocrinology, Vol 119, 1497-1501, Copyright © 1986 by Endocrine Society

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The metabolic clearance, distribution, and degradation of dimeric and monomeric growth hormone (GH): implications for the pattern of circulating GH forms

G Baumann, MW Stolar and TA Buchanan

The ratio of oligomeric (big) to monomeric (little) human (h)GH forms in plasma exceeds that in the pituitary gland severalfold. To investigate whether delayed metabolic clearance of oligomers could explain this discrepancy, we measured MCR, distribution volumes, and degradation rates of radio-labeled hGH22K dimer, hGH20K dimer, hGH22K monomer, and hGH20K monomer in the rat. Hormones were injected as a bolus, and disappearance from plasma was followed by immunoprecipitation and trichloroacetic acid precipitation. MCRs of the dimers were significantly lower than those of the corresponding monomers (5-fold in the case of hGH22K, and 2-fold in the case of hGH20K). Both dimers were also degraded at slower rates than the monomers. Distribution volumes for the dimers, although somewhat smaller, were not statistically different from those for the monomers and were consistent with distribution in the extracellular space. We conclude that hGH dimers are relatively protected from degradation and hence cleared more slowly from the blood than hGH monomers. This may lead to their accumulation in the circulation relative to their monomeric counterparts, which may explain their high proportion in plasma as compared to pituitary.


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