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Preparation and characterization of a colloidal gold-insulin complex with binding and biological activities identical to native insulin

RM Smith, RI Goldberg and L Jarett

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104.

We studied the binding and biological activities of gold-insulin complexes to develop a complex with properties identical to native insulin. Stabilizing amounts of insulin absorbed to 5-, 10-, or 15-nm gold particles resulted in complexes with 40-327 insulin molecules per gold particle and 4-111 times the biological activity of unlabeled insulin, based on the molar concentration of gold complex. These data suggested that these complexes behaved as multivalent ligands. Gold- insulin complexes were prepared with 5% of the stabilizing insulin concentration and were stabilized with bovine serum albumin. This resulted in a complex with 5-7 insulin molecules per 10-nm gold particle, which stimulated glucose oxidation in rat adipocytes and competed with [125I]-insulin for binding to the insulin receptor identically to unlabeled insulin on an equimolar basis. The organization and distribution of insulin receptors occupied by this monovalent-behaving gold-insulin complex were virtually identical to previous observations using monomeric ferritin-insulin. Since multivalent ligands may affect receptor binding, re-distribution, and intracellular processing, the use of electron-dense probes that resemble the unlabeled ligand in biological and binding properties is appropriate when studying receptor dynamics of in vivo or in vitro biological systems. The gold-insulin complex developed in this study should serve this function.

Volume 36, Issue 4, pp. 359-365, 04/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by The Histochemical Society


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