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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
49
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-18
pubmed:abstractText
A large variety of proenkephalin-A-derived peptides (PEAPs) are present in bovine adrenal medulla secretory granules that are cosecreted with catecholamines upon stimulation of chromaffin cells. In the present paper, after reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography of intragranular soluble material, PEAPs were immunodetected with antisera raised against specific proenkephalin-A (PEA) sequences (PEA63-70 and PEA224-237) and analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. Thirty PEAPs were characterized in addition to enkephalins and whole PEA, indicating that preferential proteolytic attacks occurred at both N- and C-terminal regions. A similar approach was used to characterize PEA-derived fragments exocytotically released into the extracellular space that showed five additional minor PEAPs. Among all these naturally generated peptides, enkelytin, the antibacterial bisphos- phorylated C-terminal peptide (PEA209-237), was predominantly generated, as shown by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry analysis, which constituted an efficient method for its identification. Finally, the data on PEA intragranular and extracellular processing in adrenal medulla are discussed in regard to the known enzymatic processing mechanisms. We note the high conservation of the cleavage points in evolutionarily diverse organisms, highlighting an important biological function for the released PEAPs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
275
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
38355-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Adrenal Medulla, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Chromaffin Cells, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Cytoplasmic Granules, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Enkephalins, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Mesocricetus, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Protein Precursors, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser..., pubmed-meshheading:10988298-Xenopus laevis
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Processing of proenkephalin-A in bovine chromaffin cells. Identification of natural derived fragments by N-terminal sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.
pubmed:affiliation
INSERM Unité 338, Biologie de la Communication Cellulaire, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't