期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1974
卷号：71
期号：2
页码：493-497
DOI：10.1073/pnas.71.2.493
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：C18:juvenile hormone is quite soluble in water, yielding a monomeric solution greater than 10-5 M. In vivo injection or addition of aqueous juvenile hormone to the hemolymph in vitro shows the complexation of juvenile hormone to a protein, as demonstrated by gel permeation chromatography and disc-gel electrophoresis. The protein has an apparent molecular weight of 3.4 x 104 and is present in the hemolymph at a concentration in the micromolar range. The binding of the hormone to the protein can be described as a simple thermodynamic equilibrium with a dissociation constant of 3 x 10-7 M, and the protein has a much higher affinity for the hormone than for the hydrolysis products.
