Radioimmunoassay for Insulin-Like Growth Factor II(IGF-II).

Radioimmunoassay for insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II).

Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) levels in human plasma were measured in physiological and pathological conditions by radioimmunoassay (RIA) with biosynthetic IGF-II. This RIA was specific for IGF-II and cross-reactivity with IGF-I was 1%. The sensitivity was 15 pg/tube with 50% displacement at 50 pg/tube. The intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation for IGF-II were 6.3 and 9.3%, ...

Assessment of developmental changes in chicken and turkey insulin-like growth factor-II by homologous radioimmunoassay.

The development of a homologous RIA for chicken insulin-like growth factor-II (cIGF-II) and its application to investigate the developmental changes in IGF-II in the chicken and turkey are described. A double-antibody RIA has been developed using recombinantly derived cIGF-II as antigen, radiolabelled tracer and standard. Serial dilutions of chicken and turkey plasma were parallel to serial dil...

Isolation of the human insulin-like growth factor genes: insulin-like growth factor II and insulin genes are contiguous.

Overlapping recombinant clones that encompass the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) I and II genes have been isolated from a human genomic DNA library. Each gene is present once per haploid genome; the IGF-I gene spans greater than 35 kilobase pairs (kbp) and the IGF-II gene is at least 15 kbp. The exon-intron organization of these genes is similar, each having four exons, which is one more than...

Consequences of postnatal insulin-like growth factor II overexpression in insulin-like growth factor I deficient mice

Binding of mutants of human insulin-like growth factor II to insulin-like growth factor binding proteins 1-6.

A family of six specific insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs) modulates the biological actions of the insulin-like growth factors, IGF-I and IGF-II. In the present study, we determined the binding affinity of purified human IGFBPs 1-6 for recombinant human IGF-II mutants whose binding to IGF-I, IGF-II/mannose 6-phosphate, and insulin receptors was previously reported (Sakano, K....