title: [Proteolytic events in the maturation of pro-neuropeptides. The somatostatin model].
abstract: The post-translational processing (maturation) of the precursors was studied on the model of the prosomatostatin. We have shown the presence of a single and common precursor to both somatostatin -28 and -14 in mouse hypothalamus, in contrast with the situation in the Teleostean fish, Lophius piscatorius. The search for a maturation activity was carried out using a synthetic undecapeptide substrate including in its sequence the cleavage site for somatostatin-14 release. Using this peptide, we characterized in rat brain cortex extracts a specific enzyme activity of 90 kD. This "maturase", colocalized in the neurosecretory granules with the somatostatin products, generates both the N-terminal peptide S-28, and the tetradecapeptide hormone (S-14) from the somatostatin-28, acting as a "S-28 convertase" producing free Arg and Lys residues present at the pair of basic amino acids signal. We propose a model where three peptide bonds are cleaved by this enzymatic activity. In the teleostean fish: Lophius piscatorius, two precursors coding for two different somatostatin were predicted by the determination of cDNA sequence. In this system, we observed the presence of a unique form of the tetradecapeptide hormone. We show that the final maturation product of the second precursor is a new 28 amino acid hormone called Somatostatin-28 II. Moreover, the product of this second gene after the action of the Somatostatin-28 convertase from rat brain cortex is the (Tyr7, Gly 10)S-14 derivative predicted by the clone.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D010450:Endopeptidases / Q000378:metabolism; D005399:Fishes; D008322:Mammals; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000378:metabolism*; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000378:metabolism; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000378:metabolism*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D009479:Neuropeptides; D011498:Protein Precursors; D013004:Somatostatin; D010450:Endopeptidases; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; C045514:somatostatin-28 convertase
vernacular_title: Evénements protéolytiques de la maturation des proneuropeptides. Le modèle de la somatostatine.