Purification, characterization, and localization of neuropeptides in the cornea |
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Authors: | Peter W Tinsley Genevieve H Fridland John T Killmar Dominic M Desiderio |
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Institution: | Charles B. Stout Neuroscience Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163. |
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Abstract: | The immunologically detected neuropeptides methionine enkephalin (ME), substance P (SP), beta-endorphin (beta-End), and alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) were purified from bovine corneal extracts by gradient, followed by isocratic, reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and characterized, after both chromatographic steps, by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Immunologically detected ME and SP were purified from canine corneal extracts by gradient RP-HPLC and characterized by RIA. An anatomical study of the bovine cornea separated the cornea into an epithelium-enriched and a stroma-enriched portion. After gradient RP-HPLC, RIA demonstrated that all the ME-like immunoreactivity was located in the corneal epithelium, whereas the SP-like immunoreactivity was distributed between the stroma and epithelium in an approximate two-to-one ratio. |
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Keywords: | Cornea Methionine enkephalin Substance P β -Endorphin α -MSH HPLC Radioimmunoassay |
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