Synthesis and in vitro bioactivity of C-terminal deleted analogs of human growth hormone-releasing factor |
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Authors: | N Ling A Baird W B Wehrenberg N Ueno T Munegumi P Brazeau |
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Institution: | Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA |
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Abstract: | A series of C-terminal deleted analogs of human growth hormone-releasing factor (hGRF) with either an amidated or a free carboxylic acid C-terminus were synthesized by solid phase methodology. Their capacity to release growth hormone was tested on rat anterior pituitary cells in monolayer culture. A gradual decrease of bioactivity down to 23% relative to hGRF was noted when the C-terminal amino acids were deleted to hGRF (1-34)OH. Further deletions, however, did not decrease the bioactivity because the potencies of the fragments, hGRF(1-31)NH2, (1-30)NH2 and (1-29)NH2 remained at about 50% of that of hGRF. Continual deletion of residues to hGRF(1-23)NH2, (1-22)NH2 and (1-21)NH2 still yielded bioactive fragments with full intrinsic activity despite very low potency. Only with the deletion down to hGRF(1-19)NH2 did the bioactivity completely disappear. Thus, together with the data published in a previous paper (1), the minimal biologically active core of hGRF with full intrinsic activity comprises the fragment (3-21). |
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Keywords: | human growth hormone-releasing factor HPLC high performance liquid chromatography |
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