title: New angiotensin I isolated from a reptile, Alligator mississippiensis.
abstract: Angiotensin I (ANG I) of the American alligator Alligator mississippiensis was isolated from incubates of homologous plasma and kidney extract, and its amino acid sequence was determined as H-Asp-Arg-Val-Tyr-Val-His-Pro-Phe-Ala-Leu-OH. The presence of strongly hydrophobic alanine at position 9 is unusual among ANGs I sequenced to date. Since alanine can be converted to serine by a one-point mutation of the triplet nucleotides, the phylogenetic proximity of the alligator to birds, whose ANG I has serine at position 9, is confirmed by the chemical evolution of the hormone structure. The alligator [Asp1,Val5,Ala9] ANG I increased arterial blood pressure of conscious alligators, but it was no more potent than avian [Asp1,Val5,Ser9] ANG I. The alligator ANG I was also equipotent to the homologous ANG I in the quail and rat. It is concluded that substitutions at position 9 have little influence on the vasopressor activity of ANG I.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Silldorff
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: T X
authors.initials: TX
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakakibara
mesh_terms: D000489:Alligators and Crocodiles / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000803:Angiotensin I / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003370:Coturnix; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000804:Angiotensin II; D000803:Angiotensin I