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The nature of the immunoreactive lipotropins in human plasma and tissue extracts.

Abstract
This study was designed to establish definitively the nature of immunoreactive lipotropin (IR-LPH) in human plasma and tissue extracts. Using gel filtration, gel filtration under denaturing conditions, cationic exchange chromatography, immunoprecipitation, and radioimmunoassay, we have studied normal and tumorous human pituitaries, ectopic ACTH- and LPH-secreting tumors, plasma from normal subjects before and after dexamethasone administration, and plasma from patients with primary adrenal insufficiency and pituitary and nonpituitary ACTH- and LPH-secreting tumors. Except in the plasma and tumors of occasional patients with ectopic ACTH syndrome, the smallest IR-LPH appears to be lambda-lipotropin (lambdaLPH), which is often the predominant and occasionally the only IR-LPH present. The other major peptide appears to be betaLPH, a 91-amino acid molecule that contains lambdaLPH as its 1-58 sequence. Larger immunoreactive materials were observed in some specimens, but the "big" LPH in one plasma was shown to be lambdaLPH bound to IgG.The weak melanocyte-stimulating activity of LPH suggests that ACTH may be the principal pigmentary hormone in man. The fact that lambdaLPH, rather than betaLPH, is the predominant form in plasma suggests that the enkephalin-endorphin opiate peptides, which are contained in the "missing" 59-91 sequence from the betaLPH precursor of lambdaLPH, may be secreted in parallel with ACTH under both physiological and pathological conditions in man.
AuthorsK Tanaka, W E Nicholson, D N Orth
JournalThe Journal of clinical investigation (J Clin Invest) Vol. 62 Issue 1 Pg. 94-104 (Jul 1978) ISSN: 0021-9738 [Print] United States
PMID659643 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Tissue Extracts
  • Dexamethasone
  • beta-Lipotropin
Topics
  • Chromatography, Gel
  • Chromatography, Ion Exchange
  • Dexamethasone (pharmacology)
  • Humans
  • Nelson Syndrome (blood)
  • Neoplasms (analysis)
  • Pituitary Gland (analysis)
  • Pituitary Neoplasms (analysis)
  • Precipitin Tests
  • Radioimmunoassay
  • Tissue Extracts (analysis)
  • beta-Lipotropin (analysis, blood)

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