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Distinct or shared actions of peptide family isoforms: I. Peptide-specific actions of pyrokinins in the lobster cardiac neuromuscular system.

Abstract
Although the crustacean heart is modulated by a large number of peptides and amines, few of these molecules have been localized to the cardiac ganglion itself; most appear to reach the cardiac ganglion only by hormonal routes. Immunohistochemistry in the American lobster Homarus americanus indicates that pyrokinins are present not only in neuroendocrine organs (pericardial organ and sinus gland), but also in the cardiac ganglion itself, where pyrokinin-positive terminals were found in the pacemaker cell region, as well as surrounding the motor neurons. Surprisingly, the single pyrokinin peptide identified from H. americanus, FSPRLamide, which consists solely of the conserved FXPRLamide residues that characterize pyrokinins, did not alter the activity of the cardiac neuromuscular system. However, a pyrokinin from the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei [ADFAFNPRLamide, also known as Penaeus vannamei pyrokinin 2 (PevPK2)] increased both the frequency and amplitude of heart contractions when perfused through the isolated whole heart. None of the other crustacean pyrokinins tested (another from L. vannamei and two from the crab Cancer borealis) had any effect on the lobster heart. Similarly, altering the PevPK2 sequence either by truncation or by the substitution of single amino acids resulted in much lower or no activity in all cases; only the conservative substitution of serine for alanine at position 1 resulted in any activity on the heart. Thus, in contrast to other systems (cockroach and crab) in which all tested pyrokinins elicit similar bioactivities, activation of the pyrokinin receptor in the lobster heart appears to be highly isoform specific.
AuthorsPatsy S Dickinson, Anirudh Sreekrishnan, Molly A Kwiatkowski, Andrew E Christie
JournalThe Journal of experimental biology (J Exp Biol) Vol. 218 Issue Pt 18 Pg. 2892-904 (Sep 2015) ISSN: 1477-9145 [Electronic] England
PMID26206360 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)
Copyright© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.
Chemical References
  • Neuropeptides
  • Protein Isoforms
  • pyrokinin
Topics
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Ganglia, Invertebrate (physiology)
  • Heart (drug effects, innervation)
  • Myocardial Contraction (drug effects)
  • Nephropidae (physiology)
  • Neuropeptides (pharmacology, physiology)
  • Protein Isoforms (pharmacology, physiology)

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