Proenkephalin: A general pathway for enkephalin biosynthesis in animal tissues |
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Authors: | Kohichi Kojima Daniel L Kilpatrick Alvin S Stern Barry N Jones Sidney Udenfriend |
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Institution: | Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey 07110 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Guinea pig adrenal, brain, and myenteric plexus have been shown to contain many polypeptides that yield free enkephalins on digestion with trypsin and carboxypeptidase B. The enkephalin-containing polypeptides (ECPs) range from 500 to >20,000 daltons and show similarities in their chromatographic behavior to the ECPs present in the chromaffin granules of the bovine adrenal medulla. Furthermore, the heptapeptide Met]enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7, that is now known to represent the carboxyl terminal sequence of the proenkephalin found in bovine adrenal medulla (Gübler et al. (1982) Nature (London), in press), was identified in all three guinea pig tissues. It appears that processing of a proenkephalin similar to the one in adrenal medulla represents a general pathway for enkephalin biosynthesis in animal tissues. |
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