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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 260: G977-G982, 1991;
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Cionin, a protochordean hybrid of cholecystokinin and gastrin: biological activity in mammalian systems

Birgit Schjoldager 1, Jung Park 1, Anders H. Johnsen 1, Tadataka Yamada 1, and Jens F. Rehfeld 1

1 Departments of Medical Physiology C and Clinical Chemistry, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0362

The protochordean octapeptide cionin is structurally a hybrid of mammalian cholecystokinin (CCK) and gastrin, and thus their possible common ancestor. To determine whether cionin behaves like CCK or gastrin, we examined its effect on canine fundic somatostatin cells and on porcine and bovine gallbladder muscles. Cionin released somatostatin with a potency (ED50 0.15 nM) and efficacy (14.8% of cell content) similar to that of CCK-8 (ED50 0.12 nM, efficacy 16.7%). The efficacies but not the potencies of CCK-8 and cionin differed from those of sulfated gastrin (0.12 nM, 9.7%), nonsulfated gastrin (0.20 nM, 9.4%), and nonsulfated CCK-8 (0.30 nM, 10.4%). CCK and gastrin stimulated contractions of porcine gallbladder muscle strips in a concentration-dependent manner with no differences in efficacy but with characteristic differences in potency. CCK-8 and cionin displayed similar potencies of ED50 2.0 and 2.6 nM; both were significantly different from the ED50 of 0.4 µM for sulfated gastrin and 2.3 µM for nonsulfated gastrin. CCK radioligand binding to membrane-enriched preparations of porcine and bovine gallbladder muscularis was specific and of high affinity. The equilibrium data revealed that binding of CCK and gastrin peptides best fit a single site. CCK-8 and cionin displayed similar affinities [Kd 0.5 nM (porcine), 0.5 nM (bovine, CCK) vs. Kd 0.8 and 0.9 nM (cionin), respectively]. These differed again significantly from Kd 0.6 and 1.5 µM (sulfated gastrin) and 0.7 and 0.2 µM (nonsulfated gastrin). The results show that cionin behaves like CCK rather than gastrin in mammals.

gallbladder motility; somatostatin; receptors

Submitted on August 10, 1990
Accepted on December 19, 1990






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