Immunological identification of a common precursor to arginine vasopressin and neurophysin II synthesized by in vitro translation of bovine hypothalamic mRNA.
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- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 78 (2), 766-769
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.2.766
Abstract
MRNA from membrane-bound polysomes of bovine hypothalamus was translated in an mRNA-dependent cell-free system from reticulocyte lysate or wheat germ. The translation products were identified by immunoprecipitation with antibodies to either neurophysin II or arginine vasopressin followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. An immunoreactive polypeptide was obtained with an apparent Mr of 21,000. Sequential immunoprecipitation studies indicated that the Mr 21,000 product is a common precursor to neurophysin II and arginine vasopressin. The specificity of the immunoprecipitation was demonstrated by competition with excess amounts of unlabeled neurophysin II or arginine vasopressin; little or no competition was observed with unlabeled neurophysin II or arginine vasopressin; little or no competition was observed with unlabeled neurophysin I or oxytocin. Processing experiments with microsomal membranes from dog pancreas or tunicamycin-treated ascites tumor cells showed that the Mr 21,000 polypeptide is the prepro form. It was converted to a pro form with Mr 19,000 suggesting a pre sequence of approximately 15 amino acids. The Mr 19,000 polypeptide was coreglycosylated to an apparent Mr of 23,000, indicating that the neurophysin II-arginine vasopressin precursor is a glycopolypeptide.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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