title: Cloning and characterization of teneurin C-terminus associated peptide (TCAP)-3 from the hypothalamus of an adult rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
abstract: Neuropeptides that evolved early in metazoan evolution may possess much larger networks of paralogous genes than later evolving peptides due to the increased exposure to gene and genomic duplication events. The corticotropin-releasing factor family of peptides, which also include invertebrate CRF-like peptides, are a candidate group that appear to have an early origin. We have attempted to find additional paralogous genes to the CRF family by doing a low-stringency screen of a rainbow trout hypothalamic cDNA library using a hamster urocortin probe. A clone was identified that represented the rainbow trout ortholog of teneurin-3. The C-terminal region of the last exon teneurin transmembrane protein gene possesses a neuropeptide-like sequence with a primary structure similarity to the corticotropin-releasing factor family of peptides. We have called this sequence teneurin C-terminal associated peptide (TCAP). The predicted peptide is 40 residues long and possesses an expected pyroglutamyl residue in the first position and an amidated carboxy terminus. A synthetic version of the rainbow trout (rt) TCAP-3 is potent at increasing the concentration of cAMP and stimulating proliferation in a neuronal cell line. The synthetic peptide can also either increase or decrease the expression of the teneurin-1 gene, depending upon its concentration. The teneurin/TCAP system may represent a novel and highly conserved regulatory signalling system in the vertebrate brain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G5.
authors.forename: Xianjuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Dalia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barsyte-Lovejoy
authors.forename: Liqun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chewpoy
authors.forename: Neelam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gautam
authors.forename: Arij
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al Chawaf
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lovejoy
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology; D017686:Oncorhynchus mykiss / Q000378:metabolism*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D019063:Tenascin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D019063:Tenascin; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases