title: Radioimmunoassay for thyrotropin-releasing hormone precursor peptide, Lys-Arg-Gln-His-Pro-Gly-Arg-Arg.
abstract: A radioimmunoassay for thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) precursor peptide Lys-Arg-Gln-His-Pro-Gly-Arg-Arg (pro-TRH), has been developed. Anti-pro-TRH antibody was raised in rabbits immunized with a conjugate of synthetic pro-TRH analog, Cys-Lys-Arg-Gln-His-Pro-Gly-Arg-Arg-Cys (pCC10) to bovine serum albumin. This antibody did not cross-react with TRH, TRH-OH, His-Pro-diketopiperazine, neuropeptides, pituitary hormones and peptides which are included in prepro-TRH. Radioiodination of pCC 10 was performed by chloramin T method, followed by purification of radioiodinated material on Sephadex G-25 column. Pro-TRH was extracted from tissues, using 1.0 N acetic acid. The assay was performed with a double antibody system. The values are expressed as an equivalent of pCC 10. The dilution curves of acetic acid-extracts of rat hypothalamus and stomach in radioimmunoassay system were parallel to the standard curve. The recovery of tissue pro-TRH was 80%, the intra-assay and interassay variation was 5.2% and 8.9%, respectively. The elution profiles of acetic acid-extracts of the rat hypothalamus and stomach on Sephadex G-50 showed a single peak corresponding that of pCC 10. Immunoreactive pro-TRH was found in the rat brain, spinal cord, eye, stomach, intestine, pancreas and adrenal gland. These data suggest that this assay system is a suitable to measure pro-TRH in the tissues, and that pro-TRH is widely distributed in the rats.
authors.affiliation: Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mitsuma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirooka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nogimori
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Senda
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D004064:Digestive System / Q000032:analysis; D005123:Eye / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000032:analysis; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis*; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000032:analysis*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000032:analysis*; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011498:Protein Precursors; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone