Immunohistochemical evidence that growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) neurons contain an amidated peptide derived from cleavage of the carboxyl-terminal end of the GRF precursor.

Abstract:

:Antisera were raised against synthetic replicates of the carboxyl-terminal (C-terminal) fragment of the precursor to human GH-releasing factor (GRF) (pre-proGRF) whose structure was predicted from the complementary DNA cloned from a pancreatic tumor. These antisera were used along with antisera to human GRF itself to search for the presence of related molecules in the human hypothalamus, with an immunohistochemical approach. The antisera to pre-proGRF that recognize specifically the C-terminal amidated form of pre-proGRF stain GRF neurons in their cell bodies, fibers, and nerve endings that are in contact with portal capillaries of the median eminence. Antisera against the nonamidated form of the molecule did not give any staining in the hypothalamus. These results strongly suggest that human hypothalamic GRF derives from a precursor immunologically related (and probably identical) to the tumorous one and that this precursor is cleaved inside GRF cell bodies to give, in addition to the GRF-44-NH2 a second amidated peptide, the C-terminal pre-proGRF that is transported distally to nerve endings and most probably coreleased with GRF into portal capillaries.

journal_name

Endocrinology

journal_title

Endocrinology

authors

Bloch B,Baird A,Ling N,Guillemin R

doi

10.1210/endo-118-1-156

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-01-01 00:00:00

pages

156-62

issue

1

eissn

0013-7227

issn

1945-7170

journal_volume

118

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