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Pheromaxein, the 16-androstene steroid-binding protein with a relative molecular mass of 15 000 was isolated in sub-milligram quantities from the submaxillary gland and saliva of the Gottingen miniature boar, after a fourfold purification involving the following methods: ultrafiltration for submaxillary gland cytosols and ethanol precipitation for saliva, Concanavalin-A-Sepharose affinity chromatography, sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, 'Extractigel-D' affinity chromatography (to remove sodium dodecyl sulphate) and fast protein-liquid chromatography. Yields of purified pheromaxein obtained after fast protein-liquid chromatography represented 10–20% of total protein present in an ultrafiltrate of a submaxillary gland cytosol. Fast protein-liquid chromatography separated the - and β-charge isomers of pheromaxein which were shown to have isoelectric points of 4·78 and 5·35 respectively on flat-bed isoelectric focusing. Some data are provided for the variable occurrence of the isomeric forms of pheromaxein in relation to different breeds of pig. Five 16-unsaturated steroids showed the highest binding to pheromaxein. Other steroids of the 5- and 5β-androstane series also showed some binding to pheromaxein, i.e. 17β-hydroxy-5-androstan-3-one (19·2%), with 5-androstan-3-one, which has a similar urinous odour to 5-androst-16-en-3-one, showing the greatest binding (42·6%) relative to 5-androst-16-en-3-one (100%).

J. Endocr. (1988) 118, 47–57

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