title: Membrane-associated peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase in the heart.
abstract: Recent investigations have shown that the heart atrium is an endocrine tissue. In the present studies, high levels of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), which catalyzes the formation of bioactive alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors, have been found in particulate fractions from bovine and rat heart atrium; only low levels of PAM activity were present in soluble fractions. Corresponding fractions from the ventricles contained 20-fold less activity. Immunocytochemical studies demonstrated that PAM was localized primarily to atrial cardiocytes, with a distribution resembling that of atriopeptin. Following differential centrifugation of rat atrial homogenates, most of the PAM activity was associated with crude granule fractions, with lesser amounts of activity associated with crude microsomal fractions. Upon further subcellular fractionation, PAM activity in the rat atrium was found primarily with immunoactive atriopeptin in fractions enriched in secretory granules. Following sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, antisera to purified bovine pituitary PAM identified a 113,000-dalton protein in bovine atrial microsomes and secretory granules; the protein predicted from the sequence of the cDNA encoding bovine pituitary PAM is of similar size (Eipper, B. A., Park, L. P., Dickerson, I. M., Keutmann, H. T., Thiele, E. A., Rodriguez, H., Schofield, P. R., and Mains, R. E. (1987) Mol. Endocrinol. 1, 777-790). Northern blot analysis using cDNA probes encoding bovine pituitary PAM demonstrated higher levels of PAM mRNA in heart atrium than in anterior pituitary. Rat heart contains PAM mRNA species of 3.6 and 3.8 kilobases, the smaller mRNA species corresponding in size to the PAM mRNA expressed in rat anterior pituitary.
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
authors: B A
authors: BA
authors: Eipper
authors: V
authors: V
authors: May
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Braas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; C035189:peptidylglycine monooxygenase; D000587:Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-NH Group Donors