Deduced amino acid sequence from the bovine oxytocin-neurophysin I precursor cDNA.
The nonapeptide hormone oxytocin-like arginine-vasopressin (AVP) is synthesized as part of a larger precursor polypeptide. The precursor also includes the neurophysin molecule with which the hormone is associated in the neurosecretory granules of the hypothalamo-pituitary tract. A protein of molecular weight (Mr) approximately 20,000 has been isolated from supraoptic nuclei of rat hypothalami which, after tryptic cleavage, released a neurophysin-like molecule of Mr approximately 10,000 and an oligopeptide related to oxytocin. This result was complemented by in vitro translation of bovine hypothalamic mRNA. Among the primary translation products a single polypeptide of Mr approximately 16,500 was shown to contain antigenic determinants recognized by specific antisera against bovine neurophysin I and oxytocin. Here we report the amino acid sequence of the bovine oxytocin-neurophysin I (OT-NpI) precursor which was derived from sequence analysis of the cloned cDNA. As is the case for the bovine arginine-vasopressin-neurophysin II (AVP-NpII) precursor, the signal sequence of the OT-NpI precursor is immediately followed by the nonapeptide hormone which is connected to neurophysin I by a Gly-Lys-Arg sequence. A striking feature of the nucleic acid sequence is the 197-nucleotide long perfect homology with the AVP-NpII precursor mRNA sequence encoding the conserved middle part of neurophysins I and II.
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arginine vasopressin AVP Gly-Lys-Arg AVP oxytocin arginine vasopressin oxytocin AVP oxytocin amino acid oxytocin oxytocin amino acid AVP-NpII OT-NpI neurophysin I Gly-Lys-Arg AVP-NpII precursor neurophysins I and II neurophysin oxytocin arginine-vasopressin neurophysin oxytocin AVP bovine neurophysin I oxytocin bovine oxytocin-neurophysin I (OT-NpI) precursor bovine arginine-vasopressin-neurophysin II (AVP-NpII) precursor bovine oxytocin-neurophysin I precursor