title: Syntheses, structures and anorectic effects of human and rat amylin.
abstract: Amylin, a 37-residue polypeptide with a single disulfide bond originally isolated from the pancreas of type-II diabetic patients, has been shown to cause peripheral insulin resistance and to attenuate the inhibition of hepatic glucose output by insulin. We have also shown that amylin is present in the rat hypothalamus and that it inhibits food intake by rats. In order to further investigate the anorectic properties we synthesized both human and rat amylin by the solid phase method and purified to homogeneity in an overall yield of 10-20%. Structural analyses indicated that human amylin exhibited predominantly a beta-sheet structure at both acidic and alkaline pH, whereas no ordered structure was evident in the case of rat amylin. Intrahypothalamic injection of rat amylin resulted in a potent dose-dependent inhibitory effect on the food intake by rats adapted to eat their daily ration of food in an eight-hour period. Human amylin was less effective as an anorectic agent. Furthermore, rat amylin completely blocked the potent orexigenic effect of neuropeptide Y (NPY). These investigations show that there is a fundamental difference in the secondary structures of human and rat amylin and that rat amylin is a potent inhibitor of both basal and NPY-induced feeding by rats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267-0558.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Balasubramaniam
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Renugopalakrishnan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Chance
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000682:Amyloid / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001067:Appetite Depressants / Q000737:chemistry; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide / Q000737:chemistry; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D058228:Islet Amyloid Polypeptide; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000494:pharmacology; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000494:pharmacology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012016:Reference Values; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D000682:Amyloid; D001067:Appetite Depressants; D001786:Blood Glucose; D058228:Islet Amyloid Polypeptide; D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide