Abstract:
:The fat mouse strain exhibits a late-onset obesity syndrome associated with a mutation in the gene encoding carboxypeptidase E (CPE). Since CPE plays a central role in the biosynthesis of a number of regulatory peptides, including gastrin, we examined the biogenesis and processing of progastrin in fat/fat mice by measuring gastrin mRNA, carboxyamidated gastrin and its processing intermediates in the stomach. The tissue concentration of carboxyamidated (i.e. bioactive) gastrin was only slightly reduced (601 +/- 28 pmol/g in fat/fat mice vs. 715 +/- 43 pmol/g in wild-type controls). However, progastrin processing intermediates accumulated excessively with an 86-fold increase in the concentration of the CPE substrate, glycyl-arginine extended gastrin, and a seven-fold increase in the concentration of glycine-extended gastrin. Accordingly, the total progastrin product was doubled, as was the concentration of gastrin mRNA. Plasma concentrations of carboxyamidated gastrin were, however slightly reduced both in fasted fat/fat mice and postprandially. The results show that the CPE mutation diminishes the efficiency of progastrin processing, but gastrin synthesis is nevertheless increased to maintain an almost normal production of bioactive gastrins. By comparison with other neuroendocrine prohormones, progastrin processing in CPE-deficient mice is unique. Hence, the increase of glycine-extended gastrin in combination with normal levels of carboxyamidated gastrin suggests that G-cells may have another biosynthetic pathway for gastrin.
journal_name
FEBS Lettjournal_title
FEBS lettersauthors
Lacourse KA,Friis-Hansen L,Rehfeld JF,Samuelson LCdoi
10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01164-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-10-13 00:00:00pages
45-50issue
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0014-5793issn
1873-3468pii
S0014-5793(97)01164-2journal_volume
416pub_type
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