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MARY Y. LORENSON, DAVID L. ROBSON, LAURENCE S. JACOBS, DETECTABILITY OF PITUITARY PRL AND GH BY IMMUNOASSAY IS INCREASED BY THIOLS AND SUPPRESSED BY DIVALENT CATIONS, Endocrinology, Volume 112, Issue 5, 1 May 1983, Pages 1880–1882, https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-112-5-1880
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The amount of pituitary PRL detected by RIA in extracts of tissue and of secretory granules was augmented by thiols or EDTA in the extractant, and diminished by divalent cations or cysteamine. GH was affected by thiols and cations similarly, but to a lesser extent, and was not influenced by EDTA or cysteamine. For full immunologic detection of tissue PRL and GH, thiol-dependent mechanisms appear to be required to unmask immunoreactive sites from the poorly immunoreactive oligomeric granule storage forms. Interpretation of studies which rely on measurement of tissue PRL and GH content by RIA, immunoprecipitation, or electrophoretic detection should be reassessed in light of these observations.