Post-poly(Glu) cleavage and degradation modified by O-sulfated tyrosine: a novel post-translational processing mechanism.
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Rehfeld JF, Hansen CP, Johnsen AH
Post-poly(Glu) cleavage and degradation modified by O-sulfated tyrosine: a novel post-translational processing mechanism.
EMBO J. 1995 Jan 16;14(2):389-96.
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Expression of bioactive peptides requires several modifications of the primary translation product. Gastrin, a vertebrate gut hormone, occurs in multiple forms, including a bioactive fragment of the predominant gastrin-17. Gastrin-17 is, however, without known cleavage sites. In order to identify the new site, we therefore isolated, from antral mucosa, fragments of gastrin-34 and -17 monitored by monospecific immunoassays. After three steps of reverse-phase chromatography, the short gastrins were identified as hepta-, hexa- and pentapeptide amides. By far the most abundant of these was tyrosine O-sulfated gastrin-6. The near complete sulfation contrasts with the larger gastrins, of which only half are sulfated. The longest N-terminal fragment of gastrin-34 was a hexadecapeptide without complementarity to the short gastrins. Instead, the predominant N-terminal fragment of gastrin-17 was the decapeptide complementary to gastrin-7. Therefore the novel processing site is the Glu10-Ala11 bond that follows a poly(Glu6-10) sequence. Moreover, gastrin-7 is apparently trimmed, with subsequent accumulation of sulfated gastrin-6. Consequently, O-sulfated tyrosine ensures production of a new hormone which stimulates gastric acid secretion as potently as gastrin-17.