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KA Comer and CN Falany
Department of Pharmacology, University of Rochester, New York 14642.
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfotransferase (DHEA-ST), a steroid sulfotransferase (ST), has recently been purified from human liver cytosol and partially characterized. DHEA-ST has a subunit molecular mass of 35 kDa and is responsible for the majority of the sulfation of steroids and bile acids in the liver. For these studies, polyclonal antibodies to human liver DHEA-ST were raised in rabbits. The anti- human liver DHEA-ST antibodies were used to characterize the immunoreactivity of DHEA-ST in human liver and to study the relationship of human adrenal DHEA-ST to the liver form of the enzyme. Immunoblot analysis of several different human liver cytosol samples with the rabbit anti-human liver DHEA-ST antiserum detected only a single 35-kDa protein in each liver. Anti-human liver DHEA-ST antibodies also did not react with either form of phenol sulfotransferase (PST), P-PST or M-PST, present in human liver cytosol. DHEA-ST activity was purified from the 100,000 x g supernatant fraction of human adrenal tissue by DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B chromatography and 3',5'-diphosphoadenosine-agarose affinity chromatography. Human adrenal DHEA-ST was shown to have a molecular mass of 35 kDa, by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Immunoblot analysis of human adrenal cytosol revealed that the anti-human liver DHEA-ST antibodies reacted specifically with the 35-kDa subunit of DHEA-ST. The apparent Km values for DHEA and 3'-phosphodenosine-5'-phosphosulfate obtained with human adrenal DHEA-ST were 1.0 microM and 1.6 microM, respectively. Adrenal DHEA-ST demonstrated the same pattern of reactivity towards different steroid substrates as did human liver DHEA- ST, and neither form of DHEA-ST was found to sulfate cortisol. The results of this study suggest that DHEA-ST is the major steroid ST present in human liver and adrenal tissue and that the physical, biochemical, and kinetic properties of adrenal DHEA-ST are similar if not identical to those of the liver form of the enzyme.
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