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Abstract:
The characteristics of a method for measuring cyclic AMP binding proteins in cytosols of human breast cancer are described. Using the assay, binding proteins were demonstrable in all of 100 tumour cytosols. Levels of binding in individual tumours varied from 0.8 to 15 pmol mg-1 cytosol protein (mean value 5 pmol mg-1 cytosol protein) and the dissociation constant ranged from 0.5 to 5.2 X 10(-8)M (mean 1.73 X 10(-8)M). Whilst replicate measurements within a single portion of tumour were reproducible (intra-assay coefficient of variation was between 4.5 and 7.8% and that for inter-assay variation was between 2.1 and 4.0%) there were often considerable differences in levels of binding proteins between different portions of the same tumour. Similar intra-tumour variations have been reported for other binding proteins and steroid receptors. The inter-relationships with such parameters may elucidate whether the differences are associated with variations in cellularity, cell type, or other specific factors.
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