Abstract
A high-performance size-exclusion chromatographic method was developed for the analysis of cellular retinol and retinoic acid-binding proteins. The chromatographic analysis of the retinol-retinol-binding protein complex or the retinoic acid-retinoic acid-binding protein complex requires 15 min. The use of high-specific-radioactivity retinoid ligand (30–40 Ci/mmol) allows routine detection of 25 fmol of retinoid-binding protein/mg of cytosolic protein. Thus, this method provides a rapid alternative to sucrose density gradient sedimentation analysis of the cellular retinoid-binding proteins. High-performance size-exclusion chromatography is well suited to screening novel tissues, tumors, and cell lines for the presence of retinoid-binding proteins and to the further characterization of these cellular proteins. This method was applied to the characterization of cellular retinol- and retinoic acid-binding proteins in fetal rabbit tissues. Both retinol- and retinoic acid-binding proteins were detected in fetal rabbit brain, intestine, kidney, and lung at a gestational age of 28 days. Neither retinoidbinding protein was detected in 28-day-old fetal rabbit placenta. Specific retinoic acid binding in fetal intestinal cytosol decreased as a function of increasing gestational age.
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