title: Pituitary gastrins. Different processing in corticotrophs and melanotrophs.
abstract: The anterior, intermediate, and neural lobes of porcine pituitaries contain different molecular forms of gastrin. In the anterior lobe, unsulfated large gastrins, component I, and gastrin-34 constitute the main forms. In contrast in the intermediate and neural lobes, gastrin-17, sulfated as well as unsulfated, predominates. Since component I and gastrin-34 are biosynthetic precursors of gastrin-17, the findings indicate that proteolytic processing and amino acid derivatization (sulfation) differs between the lobes. This difference, together with the localization of anterior lobe gastrin in corticotrophs and intermediate lobe gastrin in melanotrophs, emphasizes the close relation and parallelism of the biosynthesis of gastrin and corticotropin peptides.
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D005755:Gastrins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones / Q000096:biosynthesis; D009928:Organ Specificity; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000378:metabolism; D010904:Pituitary Gland, Posterior / Q000378:metabolism; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D005755:Gastrins; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones