Peptidomic identification and biological validation of neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-1 and -2.

Abstract

Recent advances in peptidomics have enabled the identification of previously uncharacterized peptides. However, sequence information alone does not allow us to identify candidates for bioactive peptides. To increase an opportunity to discover bioactive peptides, we have focused on C-terminal amidation, a post-translational modification shared by many bioactive peptides. We analyzed peptides secreted from human medullary thyroid carcinoma TT cells that produce amidated peptides, and we identified two novel amidated peptides, designated neuroendocrine regulatory peptide (NERP)-1 and NERP-2. NERPs are derived from distinct regions of the neurosecretory protein that was originally identified as a product of a nerve growth factor-responsive gene in PC12 cells. Mass spectrometric analysis of the immunoprecipitate using specific antibodies as well as reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with radioimmunoassay analysis of brain extract demonstrated the endogenous presence of NERP-1 and NERP-2 in the rat. NERPs are abundant in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus and colocalized frequently with vasopressin but rarely with oxytocin. NERPs dose-dependently suppressed vasopressin release induced by intracerebroventricular injection of hypertonic NaCl or angiotensin II in vivo. NERPs also suppressed basal and angiotensin II-induced vasopressin secretion from hypothalamic explants in vitro. Bioactivity of NERPs required C-terminal amidation. Anti-NERP IgGs canceled plasma vasopressin reduction in response to water loading, indicating that NERPs could be potent endogenous suppressors of vasopressin release. These findings suggest that NERPs are novel modulators in body fluid homeostasis.

• Authors: Hideki Yamaguchi, Kazuki Sasaki, Yoshinori Satomi, Takuya Shimbara, Haruaki Kageyama, Muhtashan S Mondal, Koji Toshinai, Yukari Date, Luis J González, Seiji Shioda, Toshifumi Takao, Masamitsu Nakazato, Naoto Minamino
• Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry (J Biol Chem) Vol. 282 Issue 36 Pg. 26354-60 (Sep 07 2007) ISSN: 0021-9258 [Print] United States
• PMID: 17609209 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Antibodies
• Nerve Tissue Proteins
• Peptides
• Saline Solution, Hypertonic
• Vasoconstrictor Agents
• neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-1, human
• neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-1, rat
• neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-2, human
• neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-2, rat
• Water
• Vasopressins
• Angiotensin II
• Oxytocin

Topics

• Angiotensin II (pharmacology)
• Animals
• Antibodies (pharmacology)
• Brain Chemistry (drug effects)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Humans
• Male
• Nerve Tissue Proteins (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacology)
• Oxytocin (metabolism)
• PC12 Cells
• Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus (chemistry, metabolism)
• Peptides (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacology)
• Protein Processing, Post-Translational
• Rats
• Rats, Wistar
• Saline Solution, Hypertonic
• Supraoptic Nucleus (chemistry, metabolism)
• Vasoconstrictor Agents (pharmacology)
• Vasopressins (metabolism)
• Water (metabolism)
• Water-Electrolyte Balance (drug effects, physiology)