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Identification of a novel GH isoform: a possible link between GH and melanocortin systems in the developing chicken eye.

Abstract：

:GH is considered to play a role in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy, causing neovascularization in the retina. The present study was conducted to assess the possibility that GH may play a role in ocular development by determining whether GH is expressed in the eye of the chicken during development. In the 17-d-old embryo, immunocytochemistry detected immunoreactive GH in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Characterization of GH mRNA expressed in the eye by RT-PCR and rapid amplification of cDNA 5'-ends revealed it to be a novel GH mRNA transcribed from the middle of the intron 3 of the chicken GH (cGH) gene. The deduced protein, designated small GH isoform (s-cGH), was a cytosolic protein of 16.5 kDa with 140 amino acid (aa) residues, lacking the signal peptide and the N-terminal 71 aa residues of 22-kDa cGH, replacing them with 20 aberrant aa residues, and identical to 22-kDa cGH for the C-terminal 120-aa residue portion. Western blotting determined the molecular size of immunoreactive GH in RPE cells to be 80-84 kDa, similar to the computed molecular mass of s-cGH/GH receptor complex. Furthermore, RT-PCR demonstrated that GH receptor mRNA, but not s-cGH mRNA, was expressed in RPE cells. These results suggest that RPE cell is one of the target cells of s-cGH in the eye. During embryonic development, the immunoreactivity for s-cGH in RPE cells was initially observed on embryonic d 10, and the staining intensity increased and peaked on embryonic d 17. By hatching, s-cGH immunoreactivity in RPE cells was gradually decreased, and it was not detectable after hatching. This ontogenetic staining pattern correlates well with the pattern of the production of alpha MSH in RPE cells. The cell type expressing s-cGH remains to be identified; however, our findings imply a possible involvement of GH in the regulation of ocular development by acting on the intraocular melanocortin system in the chicken.

journal_name

Endocrinology

journal_title

Endocrinology

authors

Takeuchi S,Haneda M,Teshigawara K,Takahashi S

doi

10.1210/endo.142.12.8552

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-12-01 00:00:00

pages

5158-66

issue

eissn

0013-7227

issn

1945-7170

journal_volume

142

pub_type

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Identification of a novel GH isoform: a possible link between GH and melanocortin systems in the developing chicken eye.