CELL-FREE BIOSYNTHESIS OF MULTIPLE PREPROSOMATOSTATINS - CHARACTERIZATION BY HYBRID SELECTION AND AMINO-TERMINAL SEQUENCING
CELL-FREE BIOSYNTHESIS OF MULTIPLE PREPROSOMATOSTATINS - CHARACTERIZATION BY HYBRID SELECTION AND AMINO-TERMINAL SEQUENCING
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00307a023
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
SHIELDS, D
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作者:
WARREN, TG;SHIELDS, D
In vitro translation of mRNA isolated from [Lophius americanus] islets of Langerhans results in the synthesis of 3 major preprosomatostatins of MW 19,000, 18,000 and 16,000, each of which can be resolved into several isoelectric forms. Further characterization of the somatostatin precursors is presented by hybrid selection translation of specific preprosomatostatin mRNA, in vitro proteolytic processing of the nascent preprosomatostatins synthesized from hybrid-selected mRNA, comparison of their tryptic peptides and partial amino-terminal sequence analysis of the signal peptide regions. Hybrid selection experiments using specific c[complementary]DNA clones demonstrated which preprosomatostatin species corresponded to previously characterized precursor cDNA; thus, the polypeptide encoded by plasmid pLaS1 corresponds to one form of the MW 18,000 preprosomatostatin while one form of the MW 16,000 preprosomatostatin is encoded by pLaS2. Analysis of the tryptic peptides demonstrated that the MW 16,000 molecule possessed the mature hormone sequence at the carboxyl terminus, as had been shown for the MW 19,000 and 18,000 precursors. Partial NH2-terminal sequence analysis confirmed the data from hybrid selection and demonstrated that the MW 18,000 precursor contained a signal peptide manifesting amino acid heterogeneity at certain positions in the signal peptides of each preprosomatostatin. This heterogeneity might account, in part, for variants of the preprosomatostatin molecules.