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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 15, 6969-6975, May, 1987

Subunit composition of the molybdate-stabilized "8-9 S" nontransformed estradiol receptor purified from calf uterus

G Redeuilh, B Moncharmont, C Secco and EE Baulieu

The structure of the calf uterus nontransformed molybdate-stabilized estradiol receptor (ER) has been investigated using affinity labeling with tamoxifen aziridine and several monoclonal antibodies directed either against the steroid binding protein (Mr approximately 65,000) or against the heat shock protein of Mr approximately 90,000 (hsp 90). The purification was performed using affinity chromatography and a DEAE- Sephacel column. The [3H] estradiol-ER complex was obtained as a well- defined radioactive peak, the specific activity varying between 1,600 and 3,400 pmol/mg of protein. The purified ER sediments in glycerol gradients at 9.4 S +/- 0.2 (n = 5) and at 8.1 S +/- 0.2 (n = 15) in a 0.15 M KCl containing gradient ("8-9 S" ER). From a measured Stokes radius of 7.4 +/- 0.2 nm (n = 12), an Mr of approximately 300,000 has been calculated. Studies of the purified 8-9 S ER by glycerol gradient centrifugation and by "twin antibody" assay with the JS34/32 anti-ER monoclonal antibody suggest the presence of two binding subunits in the nontransformed molecular complex. Results of immunological analysis with polyclonal and several monoclonal antibodies against hsp 90 suggest the association of two molecules of this protein to the two steroid binding subunits. In high salt medium (0.4 M KCl), the purified ER sediments at 5.2 +/- 0.3 (n = 8), has a Stokes radius of 5.7 nm +/- 0.1 (n = 2) and the Mr is approximately 129,000, values expected for a homodimer consisting of two hormone-binding subunits (Mr approximately 65,000), a result confirmed by glycerol gradient centrifugation experiments, using the monoclonal antibody JS34/32. The relationship between the nontransformed 8-9 S ER and the transformed 5 S-ER forms are discussed, the simplest possibility being the release of the already formed homodimeric ER from 8-9 S ER during transformation.
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