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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 70, Issue 3 781-786, Copyright © 1992 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Beta-adrenergic receptor binding in crude porcine adipose tissue plasma membranes

H. J. Mersmann and R. L. McNeel
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

Methods have been detailed to prepare a crude membrane fraction from isolated porcine adipose tissue cells. Adipocytes were obtained after incubation of 5 g of adipose tissue slices with 4,500 units of a selected lot of collagenase in a total volume of 15 mL at 37 degrees C for 90 min. There was no bovine serum albumin present during cell isolation because albumin did not enhance cell yield or yield of lipolytic activity. Isolated cells were lysed by exposure to hypotonic conditions in the presence of 7.5 mM ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid (EGTA) and .8 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF). A 30,000 x g centrifugal pellet was used as the crude membrane preparation. Binding of tritiated dihydroalprenolol (DHA), a beta-adrenergic antagonist, was measured in the presence of 7.5 mM EGTA and .2 mM PMSF, because these protease inhibitors improved specific binding by approximately 50% to greater than 150 fmol/mg of protein and decreased non-specific binding to less than 10% at 2.5 nM DHA.




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