Regulation of formation and proposed structure of the factor inhibiting the release of melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
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Microsomal preparations from the stalk median eminence of female rats are shown to contain an enzymic activity that is responsible for the formation of MSH-release-inhibiting factor (MSH-R-IF). The amount of this activity remains constant throughout the estrous cycle. The corresponding mitochondrial preparations from the stalk median eminence contain another enzymic principle, estrous cycle-dependent, which competes with the enzyme present in the microsomal preparation for the same "substrate", and can thereby prevent the formation of MSH-R-IF. Several neurohypophyseal hormones, analogs, and peptide intermediates have been tested for their intrinsic MSH-R-IF activity and for their ability to be transformed into MSH-R-IF by incubation with microsomal preparations of stalk median eminence from male rats; it is concluded that the enzyme responsible for the formation of MSH-R-IF is an exopeptidase and that the release-inhibiting factor itself is a tripeptide. Oxytocin is converted by the incubation to (L)-prolyl-(L)-leucylglycinamide; nanogram amounts of this tripeptide inhibit the release of MSH from the pituitary both in vivo and in vitro.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 68 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971