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Endocrinology, Vol 122, 1176-1178, Copyright © 1988 by Endocrine Society

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Selective deficiency of guanine nucleotide-binding protein Go in two dopamine-resistant pituitary tumors

R Collu, C Bouvier, G Lagace, CG Unson, G Milligan, P Goldsmith and AM Spiegel
Research Unit on Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Hopital Ste- Justine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

G proteins were quantitated by immunoblot in normal rat anterior pituitary, an estrone-induced pituitary adenoma, and in two transplantable pituitary tumors resistant to dopamine, 7315a and MtTW15. Antisera specific for the alpha o and beta subunits or the alpha i subunit of G proteins were tested with all preparations. While the alpha i and beta subunits were found to be present in variable concentrations in all preparations, the alpha o subunit was very low or undetectable in the transplantable tumors. These findings suggest that tumor resistance to the dopamine inhibitory actions on prolactin release and on tumor growth may be due to the deficiency of a Go protein.


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