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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-9-5
pubmed:abstractText
The distribution of peptides derived from the novel opioid peptide precursor proenkephalin B (prodynorphin) was studied in lobes of the pituitary with antibodies against alpha-neoendorphin (alpha-neo-E) beta-neoE, dynorphin (DYN)-(1-17), DYN-(1-8), and DYN B in combination with gel filtration and high pressure liquid chromatography. In the posterior pituitary, all five opioid peptides occurred in high and about equimolar concentrations, whereas putative precursor peptides were found in only minor quantities. In contrast, in the anterior pituitary immunoreactive (ir-) DYN-(1-17) and ir-DYN B consisted exclusively of a common precursor species with a mol wt of about 6000. Six thousand-dalton DYN may be comprised of the C-terminal portion of proenkephalin B, with the sequence of DYN-(1-17) at its N-terminus. Moreover, the major portions of ir-alpha-neo-E and ir-beta-neoE in the anterior pituitary were found to be of an apparent mol wt of 8000. These findings indicate a differential processing of the opioid peptide precursor proenkephalin B in the two lobes of the pituitary. The anterior pituitary seems to process proenkephalin B predominantly into high mol wt forms of neo-E and DYNs, whereas in the posterior pituitary proenkephalin B undergoes further proteolytic processing to the smaller opioid peptides alpha-neo-E, beta-neo-E, DYN-(1-17), DYN-(1-8), and DYN B. Thus, processing differences may enable the selective liberation of different (opioid) peptides with distinct biological properties from one precursor within different tissues.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Dynorphins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Endorphins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enkephalin, Leucine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enkephalins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Fragments, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Precursors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/alpha-neoendorphin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta-Endorphin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta-neo-endorphin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/dynorphin (1-8), http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/preproenkephalin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/rimorphin
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0013-7227
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
115
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
662-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Dynorphins, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Endorphins, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Enkephalin, Leucine, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Enkephalins, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Male, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Pituitary Gland, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Pituitary Gland, Anterior, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Pituitary Gland, Posterior, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Protein Precursors, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Radioimmunoassay, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-Tissue Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:6146512-beta-Endorphin
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Proenkephalin B (prodynorphin)-derived opioid peptides: evidence for a differential processing in lobes of the pituitary.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article