Comparative aspects of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone structure and function in vertebrate phylogeny

Endocrinology
J A King, R P Millar

Abstract

Immunoreactive LHRH was detected in hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic brain extracts of the rat, bird (pigeon and chicken), reptile (tortoise and lizard), amphibian (frog and toad), teleost (cichid), and elasmobranch (dogfish) and in the whole brain of the cyclostome (bagfish). The concentration of hypothalamic immunoreactive LHRH was more than 5-fold greater than that of the extrahypothalamic brain. Mammalian and amphibian hypothalamic immunoreactive LHRH yielded displacement curves parallel to those of synthetic LHRH in assays employing four antisera which recognize different regions of the decapeptide, thus suggesting a similarity in the structure of their LHRH. Hypothalamic immunoreactive LHRH from the bird, reptile, teleost, and elasmobranch differed from the mammalian and amphibian peptide in yielding displacement curves nonparallel to those of synthetic LHRH with three different antisera (1076, 743, and 744) which bind between Trp3 and Pro9 of LHRH. The differenece in structure appears to be near Leu7. With antiserum 422 which binds the NH2- and CO2H- termini of LHRH, bird, reptile, and teleost hypothalamic extracts yielded displacement curves parallel to that of synthetic LHRH. Bird, reptile, and teleost hypothalamic e...Continue Reading

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