Abstract
1. Conversion of prohormone precursors to smaller active products occurs in secretory granules, which also have the capacity to concentrate biogenic amines. We have examined how processing of the gastrin precursor, progastrin, in rat antral mucosa is influenced by modulation of the biogenic amine content of secretory granules. 2. Newly synthesized progastrin-derived peptides in rat antral mucosa were labelled in vitro with 35SO4(2-) using a pulse-chase protocol and detected after immunoprecipitation by HPLC with on-line liquid scintillation counting. Secretory granule morphology was examined by electron microscopy. The effects of experimentally manipulating secretory granule pH and amine content were examined. 3. The dopamine precursor L-beta-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) inhibited cleavage of 35S-labelled thirty-four amino acid amidated gastrin, i.e. [35S]G34, and of [35S]G34 with COOH-terminal glycine, i.e. [35S]G34-Gly, at a pair of lysine residues, but did not influence cleavage of progastrin at pairs of arginine residues. The effect of L-DOPA was reversed by reserpine, which inhibits the amine-proton exchangers VMAT1 and VMAT2, and by carbidopa, which inhibits aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase. 4. Treatments that r...Continue Reading
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