Regulation and cellular localization of the membrane-bound thyrotropin-releasing hormone-degrading enzyme in primary cultures of neuronal, glial and adenohypophyseal cells

Endocrinology
K BauerC Denef

Abstract

Using monolayer cultures from murine brain and reaggregate cell cultures of rat anterior pituitary we observed that TRH (pyroGlu-His-Pro-NH2) added to the culture medium was not taken up by these cells but hydrolyzed at the pyroGlu-His bond by an enzyme obviously located at the cell surface. This enzyme exhibited a high degree of substrate specificity and other characteristics of the membrane-bound TRH-degrading enzyme. Relatively high enzymatic activity was associated with cultured neuronal cells from embryonic rat brain while glial cells were almost devoid of this peptidase activity. Rather low, but significant activity was found on anterior pituitary cell aggregates. In agreement with previous in vivo studies we observed that the TRH-degrading ectoenzyme on adenohypophyseal cells was regulated by estradiol and stringently controlled by T3, but that the activity of the brain enzyme was not. When pituitary cells were separated according to their size and density and established in reaggregate cell culture, a close correlation was always observed between enzyme activity and the distribution of lactotrophic cells regardless of the animal models (eu- and hypothyroid adult male rats) used and the cell fractionation techniques (vel...Continue Reading

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