title: Pro-opiocortin peptides in rat cerebrospinal fluid.
abstract: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) taken from rats implanted with chronic cisternal cannulae was subjected to gel filtration chromatography on Sephadex G-50. Fractions were monitored using radioimmunoassays for N-terminal pro-opiocortin (N-POC), gamma 3-melanotropin (gamma 3-MSH), C-terminal adrenocorticotropin (C-ACTH), alpha-endorphin, beta-endorphin, gamma-lipotropin (gamma-LPH) and alpha-MSH. Two peaks which corresponded in elution position to rat N-POC (1-74) and gamma 3-MSH were detected. The major C-ACTH-immunoreactive (IR) peak was found to correspond to 14k ACTH. While no alpha-endorphin immunoreactivity was detected in rat CSF, three beta-endorphin-IR peaks were identified in positions expected for beta-LPH, beta-endorphin (1-31) and beta-endorphin (1-27), as well as a major peak of activity with the elution characteristics and cross-reactivity of rat gamma-LPH. HPLC of the alpha-MSH-IR material in rat CSF revealed the presence of a major peak of immunoreactivity whose retention time did not correspond to the known oxidised and reduced forms of alpha-MSH and its desacetylated and diacetylated derivatives. The identity of this peak is unknown.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kiser
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Corder
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Lowry
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D000818:Animals; D002850:Chromatography, Gel / Q000379:methods; D004723:Endorphins / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D008297:Male; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D010455:Peptides / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D011333:Pro-Opiomelanocortin / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000379:methods; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D008083:beta-Lipotropin / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid
chemical_list: D004723:Endorphins; D010455:Peptides; D011333:Pro-Opiomelanocortin; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones; D008083:beta-Lipotropin