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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 258: G904-G909, 1990;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 6 904-G909, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Modulation of posttranslational processing of gastrin precursor in dogs

A. Varro, J. Nemeth, J. Bridson, J. Lonovics and G. J. Dockray
Physiological Laboratory, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

The precursor of the acid-stimulating hormone gastrin is processed in pyloric antral gastrin cells by steps involving sulfation, phosphorylation, cleavage, and amidation. We describe here changes in posttranslational processing in dogs with a surgically excluded antrum; in the preparation we used there was an intact pylorus but antral mucosa was excluded from the normal influence of the luminal contents. Three to five months after the operation, basal plasma gastrin increased from 30.1 +/- 4.0 to 66.1 +/- 16.1 pmol/l, and concentrations of gastrin in the excluded mucosa were 9.23 +/- 1.75 compared with 3.2 +/- 0.56 nmol/g in control antral mucosa. Calculations based on the metabolic clearance rate and plasma and tissue gastrin concentrations suggest two-fold lower fractional release rates from the excluded G-cells compared with normal G-cells. Radioimmunoassay of tissue extracts using antisera specific for the extreme COOH-terminus of progastrin, for glycine-extended G-17, and for the COOH-terminus of G-17, combined with gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography, indicated normal endopeptidase cleavage of progastrin. However there was significantly reduced phosphorylation of the COOH-terminal tryptic fragment of progastrin, and there was also decreased conversion of Gly-extended intermediates to the biologically active COOH-terminally amidated forms of gastrin. Thus, in spite of hypergastrinaemia, the excluded antral mucosa showed evidence of decreased secretory rates associated with decreased progastrin phosphorylation and amidating enzyme activity. The results suggest that contact of antral mucosa with the luminal contents is able to modulate the posttranslational processing of progastrin and so determine the production of biologically active hormone.


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