Isolation, analysis of structure, synthesis, and biological actions of urotensin I neuropeptides

Author:

Lederis K.,Letter A.,McMaster D.,Ichikawa T.,MacCannell K. L.,Kobayashi Y.,Rivier J.,Rivier C.,Vale W.,Fryer J.

Abstract

The 41-residue neuropeptide urotensin I (UI), from the urophyses of two teleost fish species (Cyprinus carpio and Catostomus commersoni), was isolated and purified, and its amino acid sequence was determined and confirmed by synthesis of a fully active peptide. The UI peptide was found to be a close structural and biological homologue of the ovine hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and the frog skin peptide sauvagine; UI is, therefore, a phylogenetic prototype of this group of peptides. Extraction of urophyses in hot acetic or hydrochloric acid cleaves an amino terminal tripeptide yielding a fully active UI(4–41). The UI peptides are equipotent with the other two naturally occurring peptides (CRF and sauvagine) in the release of mammalian pituitary corticotropin (ACTH), but UI is several times more potent than the mammalian homologue in the stimulation of release of fish pituitary ACTH. The UI peptide and its mammalian or amphibian homologues have a long-lasting hypotensive action in mammals, via a uniquely selective vasodilatation in the superior (anterior) mesenteric vascular bed only. The significantly lower hypotensive vasodilatory action of the mammalian homologue (CRF) suggests a change in the unknown physiological role of the haemodynamic actions of the UI peptides in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract during phylogenetic progression from fishes to mammals.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Medicine

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