CHARACTERIZATION OF AN α‐AMIDATING ACTIVITY IN A HUMAN PANCREATIC TUMOUR SECRETING VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE (VIP)
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Endocrinology
- Vol. 33 (4), 467-480
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1990.tb03884.x
Abstract
A case of watery diarrhoea hypokalaemia achlorhydria (WDHA) syndrome due to a pancreatic tumour and identified by VIP plasma level, VIP immunocytochemistry, and ultrastructural analysis of tumour sections, is reported. Since VIP is the mediator of the syndrome and is biologically active under its amidated form, the enzymatic .alpha.-amidating activity was investigated and characterized in tumour extract; using the synthetic substrate D-Tyr-Val-Gly, the enzyme displayed an optimal activity at pH 7.0, under aerobic conditions and with 35 .mu.M CuSO4 and 3 mM ascorbate as co-factors. The Kmax and Vmax values of the enzymatic activity were 133.7 .mu.M and 26.9 pmol/h/.mu.g protein respectively. Its molecular weight, determined by molecular sieving, was close to 36 kDa. Other tumours of the human endocrine pancreas were also investigated for the enzymatic activity. The clinical interest of studying the regulation of the .alpha.-amidating activity in such tumours is discussed.Keywords
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