Abstract：
:We have recently demonstrated that the hypertensinogenic and natriuretic actions of ACTHI-39 can be found in a non-steroidogenic fragment of ACTH, ACTH4-10. These effects of ACTH or ACTH4-10 may be due to their ability to act as weak agonists of gamma MSH. gamma MSH is found in the 16K N-terminus of pro-opiocortin, and contains a sequence analogous to ACTH4-10, gamma MSH3-9. We investigated the cardiovascular effects of gamma 2MSH, gamma MSH3-9, and sterically restricted analogs of ACTH4-10. The results indicate that gamma MSH3-9, had essentially the same activities as ACTH4-10. The addition of five other amino acid residues to gamma MSH3-9 (gamma 2MSH) resulted in significant enhancement of pressor and cardioaccelerator activity. Steric restriction of the ACTH4-10 sequence by the substitution of a D-Phe in place of an L-Phe residue in position #7, or cyclization of the peptide by a half-Cys4, half Cys10 intramolecular disulfide-bridge derivatization, resulted in increased cardiovascular activities. Based on these data, the cardiovascular actions of ACTH4-10, gamma MSH3-9, and gamma 2MSH are predicted to be due to the assumption of a reverse-turn three-dimensional structure. The additional residues in gamma 2MSH appear to specifically enhance the cardiovascular activities of gamma MSH3-9. The results suggest the existence of a new class of hypophyseal peptides with cardiovascular activities, which require the assumption of a defined three-dimensional structure.
journal_name
Life Scijournal_title
Life sciencesauthors
Klein MC,Hutchins PM,Lymangrover JR,Gruber KAdoi
10.1016/0024-3205(85)90197-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-02-25 00:00:00pages
769-75issue
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0024-3205issn
1879-0631pii
0024-3205(85)90197-3journal_volume
36pub_type
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