The vasopressin precursor in the Brattleboro (di/di) rat
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research
- Vol. 32 (6), 565-572
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3011.1988.tb01388.x
Abstract
The vasopressin precursor in the rat hypothalamus has been studied, using trypsin to release desglycinamide vasopressin and coupling it to glycinamide (T & G treatment). The resulting amidated nonapeptide was detected and measured with a radioimmunoassay for vasopressin. The "vasopressin" produced in this way had the full immunoreactivity of the authentic peptide but eluted from an hplc column 1 min earlier and appeared to have a larger molecular weight. It was found that T&G treatment generated vasopressin immunoreactivity in extracts of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of the Brattleboro rat in just the same way as it did in normal animals. Furthermore, this procedure produced vasopressin immunoreactivity in those hplc fractions from Brattleboro SON extracts that corresponded with the elution time of vasopressin precursor. Similar amounts of "vasopressin" could be generated from Brattleboro and normal SONs. These results support the suggestion that the Brattleboro SON synthesizes an aberrant vasopressin precursor which is not processed by the cell.Keywords
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