Evidence for pyroglutamyl peptidase I and prolyl endopeptidase activities in the rat insulinoma cell line RINm 5F: lack of relationship with TRH metabolism |
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Authors: | Paul Salers L'Houcine Ouafik Pierre Giraud Anne Dutour Jean-Yves Maltese Charles Oliver |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Neuroendocrinologie Experimentale, INSERM U297, Faculté Medécine Nord, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13326 Marseille Cedex 15, France |
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Abstract: | Thyrotropin-R eleasing hormone (TRH)-degrading pyroglutamyl peptidase I(PGP I) and prolyl endopeptidase (PE) activities have been demonstrated in rat insulinoma RINm 5F cell line. These two enzymes catalyze the conversion of TRH to Histydyl-Proline-Diketopiperazine and to acid TRH respectively.After cell fractionation, we found all the PGP I and PE activities in the cytosolic fraction. The membranebound PGP II activity is not detectable in the RINm 5F cells. Further investigations on these two cytosolic enzymes show that pyroglutamyl- and proline-containing peptides are inhibitors of each TRH-degrading enzyme.Gelfiltration chromatography on Sephadex G100 shows that PGP I and PE activity have an apparent molecular mass of about 18 kDa and 57 kDa, respectively. Kinetic analysis with TRH as substrate, gives a Km of 44 µM and 235 µM, and a Vmax of 1.49 and 8.80 pmoUmin/µg protein for PGP I and PE, respectively. Immunoreactive TRH, His-Pro-Diketopiperazine and acid TRH levels in the cell line extracts are 2.2 ± 0.9, 22.5 ± 11.1 and 28.7 ± 14.6pg/106 cells, respectively. When cells have been incubated for 2 to 72 hours with a P. E. inhibitor (Z-Gly-Pro-CHN2) at 5 × 10–7M, both cell PGP I and PE activities are inhibited. No change in the cellular content of immunoreactive TRH, His-Pro-Diketopiperazine and acid TRH have been observed in treated cells.These data suggest that TRH is not degraded by cytosolic, unspecific PGP I and PE enzymes in RINm 5F. The finding that these cells contain 10 and 13 times more His-Pro-Diketopiperazine and acid TRH than TRH may be an indirect evidence for the existence of another precursor than TRH for these two peptides or of the possibility that TRH can be degraded by other peptidases.Abbreviations TRH
Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone or Thyroliberin
- His-Pro-DKP
Histidyl-ProlineDiketopiperazine
- TRH-OH
acid TRH or deamidated TRH
- LH-RH
Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone
- Z-Gly-Pro-CHN2
N-benzyloxycarboxyl-Gly-Pro-diazomethylketone
- PGP
Pyroglutamyl Peptidase, PGP I (EC 3.4.19.3) and PGP II (EC 3.4.19.-)
- PE
Prolyl Endopeptidase or post-proline cleaving enzyme (EC 3.4.21.26) |
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Keywords: | thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) prolyl endopeptidase inhibitor radioimmunoassay acid TRH His-Pro-Diketopiperazine |
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