title: Structure-activity relationship of neuropeptide gamma derived from mammalian and fish.
abstract: This study of relationship between structure and biologic activity was performed using five neuropeptide gammas [NPgamma; mammalian-NPgamma (M-NPgamma), trout-NPgamma (T-NPgamma), goldfish-NPgamma (G-NPgamma), bowfin-NPgamma (B-NPgamma), and shark-NPgamma (S-NPgamma)]. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra showed that all peptides took random structure in buffer solution. In neutral and acidic liposomes, M-NPgamma, T-NPgamma, B-NPgamma, and S-NPgamma still adopted random structure, while G-NPgamma had an alpha-helical structure. The biologic activity of NPgammas has been estimated by their effects on the intestinal motility and arterial relaxation. The intestinal motility was investigated with rat duodenum (RD), carp intestine (CI), and guinea-pig ileum (GPI). The arterial relaxing effect was tested with guinea-pig aorta (GPA) and rat mesenteric artery (RMA). In RD, the order of potency compared with the EC50 value was M-NPgamma >> S-NPgamma >> B-NPgamma >> G-NPgamma >> T-NPgamma. G-NPgamma was the most contractile agent in CI. S-NPgamma was the most contractile agent in GPI. Using an arterial relaxing test, the order of potency was G-NPgamma >> T-NPgamma >> B-NPgamma >> S-NPgamma >> M-NPgamma in GPA, and all NPgammas remarkably reduced relaxing activity in RMA. Despite their structural similarities to NPgammas, G-NPgamma has high affinity to tachykinin receptor-binding sites in GPA and CI, indicating an alpha-helical structure may have a critical role for receptor binding. However, an alpha-helical structure does not play a critical role in recognizing receptor-binding sites in RD and GPI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Korea.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: C-H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: J-K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Go
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: J-K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Y-K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005399:Fishes; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008322:Mammals; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009126:Muscle Relaxation / Q000187:drug effects; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D015320:Tachykinins / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D015320:Tachykinins; C059905:tachykinin neuropeptide gamma