title: Biosynthesis and secretion of salusin-alpha from human cells.
abstract: Salusins originally identified using bioinformatics analyses have been shown to act on the cardiovascular and endocrine systems. Although the hypotensive activity of salusin-alpha is limited, it exerts a significant anti-atherosclerotic effect via suppression of foam cell formation in human monocyte-derived macrophages by down-regulating acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase-1. Furthermore, serum salusin-alpha levels show a close negative correlation with the severity of atherosclerotic diseases. However, biosynthesis and secretion of salusin-alpha peptide from cultured mammalian cells have not been demonstrated to date. We examined the expression, synthesis and release of salusin-alpha in human-derived cell lines. Preprosalusin mRNA and protein were detected ubiquitously in all cells tested, whereas the processing of preprosalusin into salusin-alpha peptide is dependent upon each cell type. Immunohistochemical study revealed the most abundant salusin-alpha-like immunoreactivity to be present in HeLa cells which released salusin-alpha-like immunoreactivity into the culture supernatant. Analysis of extracted conditioned media from HeLa cells by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled with radioimmunoassay detection revealed a single immunoreactive component that co-eluted with authentic salusin-alpha. These results present the first evidence that salusin-alpha is biosynthesized and released from human-derived cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Molecular Genetics of Hematology, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
authors.forename: Kengo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Takatoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Masayoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shichiri
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D006801:Humans; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C478739:TOR2A protein, human