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Mao R, Chen Y, Chi Z, Wang Y. Insulin and its single-chain analogue. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:8737-8751. [PMID: 31637493 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10170-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Molecular evolution of the androgenic hormone in terrestrial isopods. Gene 2014; 540:71-7. [PMID: 24561051 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2012] [Revised: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 02/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In crustaceans, the androgenic gland (AG), thanks to the synthesis of the androgenic gland hormone (AGH), controls the differentiation of the primary and secondary male sexual characters. In this study, we amplified 12 new AGH cDNAs in species belonging to five different families of the infra-order Ligiamorpha of terrestrial isopods. Putative essential amino acids for the production of a functional AGH protein exhibit signatures of negative selection and are strictly conserved including typical proteolytic cleavage motifs, a putative N-linked glycosylation motif on the A chains and the eight Cys positions. An insulin-like growth factor motif was also identified in Armadillidium AGH sequences. The phylogenetic relationships of AGH sequences allowed one to distinguish two main clades, corresponding to members of the Armadillidiidae and the Porcellionidae families which are congruent with the narrow specificity of AG heterospecific grafting. An in-depth understanding of the regulation of AGH expression would help deciphering the interaction between Wolbachia, widespread feminizing endosymbiotic bacteria in isopods, and the sex differentiation of their hosts.
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The C-peptide of proinsulin is important for the biosynthesis of insulin, but has been considered for a long time to be biologically inert. Recent studies in diabetic patients have stimulated a new debate about its possible regulatory role, suggesting that it is a hormonally active peptide. We describe structural studies of the C-peptide using 2D NMR spectroscopy. In aqueous solution, the NOE patterns and chemical shifts indicate that the ensemble is a nonrandom structure and contains substructures with defined local conformations. These are more clearly visible in 50% H2O/50% 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol. The N-terminal region (residues 2-5) forms a type I beta-turn, whereas the C-terminal region (residues 27-31) presents the most well-defined structure of the whole molecule including a type III'beta-turn. The C-terminal pentapeptide (EGSLQ) has been suggested to be responsible for chiral interactions with an as yet uncharacterized, probably a G-protein-coupled, receptor. The three central regions of the molecule (residues 9-12, 15-18 and 22-25) show tendencies to form beta-bends. We propose that the structure described here for the C-terminal pentapeptide is consistent with the previously postulated CA knuckle, believed to represent the active site of the C-peptide of human proinsulin.
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Simon J, Laurent S, Grolleau G, Thoraval P, Soubieux D, Rasschaert D. Evolution of preproinsulin gene in birds. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2004; 30:755-66. [PMID: 15012953 DOI: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00254-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2003] [Revised: 06/17/2003] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The coding region of the preproinsulin gene has been cloned and partly sequenced in a variety of marine and terrestrial birds (28 species). All genes showed the "ancestral" structure with a large intron-2. The size of intron-2 changed considerably during the evolution of birds (2.4-4.2kb). The hydrophobicity of signal peptides was conserved. Bird C-peptides were predicted to be 28 amino acids long, but circulating C-peptides would be only 26 amino acids long, with Passer as a possible exception. Bird C-peptides were found to lack the sequences identified in mammals as responsible for peptide bioactivity and the structure of the central part. In contrast, predicted insulin sequences were highly conserved. Only two types of analog were identified: the hypoactive form (GluA8), present only in Anseriformes and the hyperactive form (His A8), present in all other species. Based on 3'-nucleotide sequence analysis (extending into intron-2), birds appeared to be monophyletic. Five groups were clearly identified: Paleognathae, Galliformes, Anseriformes, Passeriformes, and Charadriiformes. Paleognathae were suggested as the basal group, supporting the traditional view of avian evolution. Subsequent branching identified a gallo-anserae group and a group containing all other Neognathae. Surprisingly, Columba livia (Columbiforme order) clustered with Galliformes. With represented species, Procellariiformes and possibly Ciconiiformes, and Pelicaniformes were suggested as paraphyletic, in agreement with conclusions from some studies based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.
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- J Simon
- Station de Recherches Avicoles, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 37380 Nouzilly, France.
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Okuno A, Hasegawa Y, Nishiyama M, Ohira T, Ko R, Kurihara M, Matsumoto S, Nagasawa H. Preparation of an active recombinant peptide of crustacean androgenic gland hormone. Peptides 2002; 23:567-72. [PMID: 11836008 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-9781(01)00635-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In crustaceans, male sexual characteristics are induced by a hormone referred to as androgenic gland hormone. We have recently cloned a candidate cDNA in the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare. In order to prove that this cDNA encodes the hormone, recombinant single-chain precursor molecules consisting of B chain, C peptide and A chain were produced using both baculovirus and bacterial expression systems. Neither recombinant precursors showed activity. Digestion of only the precursor carrying a glycan moiety with lysyl endopeptidase gave a heterodimeric peptide with hormonal activity by removing a part of C peptide. These results indicate that the cDNA encodes the hormone.
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- Atsuro Okuno
- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan
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Kjeldsen T, Balschmidt P, Diers I, Hach M, Kaarsholm NC, Ludvigsen S. Expression of insulin in yeast: the importance of molecular adaptation for secretion and conversion. Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 2002; 18:89-121. [PMID: 11530700 DOI: 10.1080/02648725.2001.10648010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- T Kjeldsen
- Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Alle 6B S.90, 2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
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Kuliawat R, Prabakaran D, Arvan P. Proinsulin endoproteolysis confers enhanced targeting of processed insulin to the regulated secretory pathway. Mol Biol Cell 2000; 11:1959-72. [PMID: 10848622 PMCID: PMC14896 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.6.1959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Recently, two different prohormone-processing enzymes, prohormone convertase 1 (PC1) and carboxypeptidase E, have been implicated in enhancing the storage of peptide hormones in endocrine secretory granules. It is important to know the extent to which such molecules may act as "sorting receptors" to allow the selective trafficking of cargo proteins from the trans-Golgi network into forming granules, versus acting as enzymes that may indirectly facilitate intraluminal storage of processed hormones within maturing granules. GH4C1 cells primarily store prolactin in granules; they lack PC1 and are defective for intragranular storage of transfected proinsulin. However, proinsulin readily enters the immature granules of these cells. Interestingly, GH4C1 clones that stably express modest levels of PC1 store more proinsulin-derived protein in granules. Even in the presence of PC1, a sizable portion of the proinsulin that enters granules goes unprocessed, and this portion largely escapes granule storage. Indeed, all of the increased granule storage can be accounted for by the modest portion converted to insulin. These results are not unique to GH4C1 cells; similar results are obtained upon PC1 expression in PC12 cells as well as in AtT20 cells (in which PC1 is expressed endogenously at higher levels). An in vitro assay of protein solubility indicates a difference in the biophysical behavior of proinsulin and insulin in the PC1 transfectants. We conclude that processing to insulin, facilitated by the catalytic activities of granule proteolytic enzymes, assists in the targeting (storage) of the hormone.
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- R Kuliawat
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Gieseg MA, Swarbrick PA, Perko L, Powell RJ, Cutfield JF. Elephantfish proinsulin possesses a monobasic processing site. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1997; 108:199-208. [PMID: 9356216 DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Total pancreatic RNA from the holocephalan species Callorhyncus milii (elephantfish) was used to make cDNA as a template for the polymerase chain reaction. Three redundant primers based on the known amino acid sequence of elephantfish insulin were used to amplify a fragment of proinsulin comprising truncated B-chain, complete C-peptide, and complete A-chain. Whereas the C-peptide/A-chain junction contained the expected dibasic cleavage site (-Lys-Arg-), the B-chain/C-peptide junction was found to contain only a single Arg, the first such site to be unequivocally associated with the proteolytic processing of a proinsulin to insulin. Examination of the flanking sequences around this site shows that a typical endocrine/neuroendocrine PC3 conversion enzyme should still be able to cleave, as the general requirements for precursor processing at a monobasic site are satisfied, notably a basic residue (Lys) at the -4 position. An acidic residue (in this case Asp) at the +1 position, which is seen in all known proinsulins, is maintained. The corresponding genomic DNA fragment of elephantfish proinsulin was also amplified by PCR, revealing a 402-bp intron at the conserved IVS-2 position within the C7 codon.
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- M A Gieseg
- School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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de With ND, Li KW, Jiménez CR, Vonk N, Dreisewerd K, Hillenkamp F, Karas M, Geraerts WP. Intracellular degradation of C-peptides in molluscan neurons producing insulin-related hormones. Peptides 1997; 18:765-70. [PMID: 9285923 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-9781(97)00020-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Single Light Green Cells (LGC) of Lymnaea stagnalis, expressing four genes encoding insulin-related peptides (MIPs) and C-peptides, and sections from the median lip nerve (MLN) were subjected to MALDI-MS. Mass spectra of LGCs and MLNs were almost identical. Masses corresponding to those of the MIPs and some C alpha-peptides could be distinguished. ProMIP III C alpha-peptide and C beta-peptides were not found. The spectra showed additional masses matching those of carboxyterminally truncated C alpha-peptides. Peptides with similar masses were isolated from MLN extracts by HPLC, using electrospray-MS screening. Amino acid sequence analysis revealed intact proMIP I, II and V C alpha-peptides and I, II C alpha-peptide 1-24, 1-22 and 1-15.
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- N D de With
- Graduate School of Neurosciences Amsterdam, Research Institute Neurosciences Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Biology, The Netherlands.
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Verchere CB, Paoletta M, Neerman-Arbez M, Rose K, Irminger JC, Gingerich RL, Kahn SE, Halban PA. Des-(27-31)C-peptide. A novel secretory product of the rat pancreatic beta cell produced by truncation of proinsulin connecting peptide in secretory granules. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:27475-81. [PMID: 8910330 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.44.27475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Insulin and connecting peptide (C-peptide) are produced in equimolar amounts during proinsulin conversion in the pancreatic beta cell secretory granule. To determine whether insulin and C-peptide are equally stable in beta cell granules (and thus secreted in equimolar amounts), neonatal and adult rat beta cells were pulse-chased, and radiolabeled insulin and C-peptide analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. A novel truncated C-peptide was identified and shown by mass spectrometry to be des-(27-31)C-peptide (loss of 5 C-terminal amino acids). Des-(27-31)C-peptide is a major beta cell secretory product, accounting for 37.4 +/- 1.6% (neonatal) and 8.5 +/- 0.6% (adult) of total labeled C-peptide in secretory granules after 10 h of chase. Des-(27-31)C-peptide is also secreted in a glucose-sensitive manner from the perfused adult rat pancreas, accounting for approximately 10% of total C-peptide immunoreactivity secreted. Human C-peptide is also a substrate for truncation in granules. Thus, when human proinsulin was expressed (infection with recombinant adenovirus) in transformed (INS) rat beta cells, human des-(27-31)C-peptide was secreted along with the intact human peptide and both intact and truncated rat C-peptide. In addition to truncation, 33.1 +/- 1.2% of C-peptide in neonatal but not adult rat beta cell granules was further degraded. Such degradation was completely inhibited by ammonium chloride (known to neutralize intra-granular pH), whereas truncation was only partially inhibited by approximately 50%. In conclusion, a novel beta cell secretory product, des-(27-31)C-peptide, has been identified and should be considered as a potential bioactive peptide. Both truncation and degradation of C-peptide are responsible for non-equimolar secretion of insulin and C-peptide in rat beta cells.
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- C B Verchere
- Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA.
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Hunt SM, Tait AS, Gray PP, Sleigh MJ. Processing of mutated human proinsulin to mature insulin in the non-endocrine cell line, CHO. Cytotechnology 1996; 21:279-88. [PMID: 9004539 DOI: 10.1007/bf00365350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Heterologous genes encoding proproteins, including proinsulin, generally produce mature protein when expressed in endocrine cells while unprocessed or partially processed protein is produced in non-endocrine cells. Proproteins, which are normally processed in the regulated pathway restricted to endocrine cells, do not always contain the recognition sequence for cleavage by furin, the endoprotease specific to the constitutive pathway, the principal protein processing pathway in non-endocrine cells. Human proinsulin consists of B-Chain-C-peptide-A-Chain and cleavage at the B/C and C/A junctions is required for processing. The B/C, but not the C/A junction, is recognised and cleaved in the constitute pathway. We expressed a human proinsulin and a mutated proinsulin gene with an engineered furin recognition sequence at the C/A junction and compared the processing efficiency of the mutant and native proinsulin in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells. The processing efficiency of the mutant proinsulin was 56% relative to 0.7% for native proinsulin. However, despite similar levels of mRNA being expressed in both cell lines, the absolute levels of immunoreactive insulin, normalized against mRNA levels, were 18-fold lower in the mutant proinsulin-expressing cells. As a result, there was only a marginal increase in absolute levels of insulin produced by these cells. This unexpected finding may result from preferential degradation of insulin in non-endocrine cells which lack the protection offered by the secretory granules found in endocrine cells.
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- S M Hunt
- Department of Biotechnology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
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The insulin storage granule of the pancreatic beta cell is assembled within the trans Golgi network from around 50 or so gene products many of which are synthesized coordinately with the major component, proinsulin. An important contribution to our understanding of the regulation of this process has come from studies of the post-translational processing of proinsulin and of other proteins which are stored in the granule, particularly the processing enzymes themselves. The present review focusses on recent insights into the molecular nature of the processing machinery, and the granule Ca(2+)-dependent subtilisin-related endopeptidases which catalyse the initial rate-limiting step in the enzymic conversion of proinsulin.
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- J C Hutton
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Proinsulin is converted to insulin in beta-cell granules. Conversion involves endoproteolytic cleavage at the two pairs of basic residues linking the insulin A- and B-chains to C-peptide. The sequence of events leading to complete conversion differs from one proinsulin species to the next. In man, the structure of the proinsulin molecule is such as to favour cleavage at the B-chain/C-peptide junction leading to the generation of des-31,32 split proinsulin as the predominant, naturally occurring conversion intermediate. Under normal circumstances, proinsulin conversion is largely completed before secretion, and neither the intact prohormone nor conversion intermediates are thus encountered in large quantities in the circulation. In some pathological situations, including non-insulin-dependent diabetes, insulinoma and familial hyperproinsulinaemia, unusually high ratios of des-31,32 split proinsulin and/or proinsulin to insulin have been reported. As we understand the biochemistry of proinsulin conversion in increasingly fine molecular detail, it should become possible to make use of such unusual ratios to provide insight into lesions underlying altered beta-cell function in disease states.
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- P A Halban
- Laboratoires de Recherche Louis Jeantet, Centre Médical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
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Irminger J, Vollenweider F, Neerman-Arbez M, Halban P. Human proinsulin conversion in the regulated and the constitutive pathways of transfected AtT20 cells. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42092-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Jung LJ, Kreiner T, Scheller RH. Prohormone structure governs proteolytic processing and sorting in the Golgi complex. RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH 1993; 48:415-436. [PMID: 8441853 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-571148-7.50019-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- L J Jung
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center, Stanford University, California 94305
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Zarn JA, Lüthi C, Giger RJ, Sigrist A, Humbel RE. A mutant of human insulin-like growth factor II (IGF II) with the processing sites of proinsulin. Expression and binding studies of processed IGF II. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 210:665-9. [PMID: 1282887 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17467.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A mutant of human insulin-like growth factor II (IGF II) was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis: the nucleotides coding for Ser33 and Ser39 were changed to yield Arg and Lys, respectively, thus creating two pairs of basic residues, Arg-Arg and Lys-Arg, as flanking sequences of the remaining C domain. [Arg33, Lys39]IGF II was expressed in NIH-3T3 cells as a processed two-chain peptide with a deletion of amino acid residues 37-40 and crosslinked by three disulfide bonds. This des(37-40)[Arg33]IGF II showed 3.6-fold and 7.4-fold reduced affinities to the type 1 and type 2 IGF receptor overexpressing cells, respectively, whereas the thymidine incorporation potency was the same as that of wild-type IGF II. We speculate that the discrepancy between the reduced binding to the type 1 IGF receptor and the full thymidine incorporation potency is due to the 6.1-fold reduced affinity of the expressed mutant to the co-expressed IGF binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3). The results suggest that des(37-40)[Arg33]IGF II assumes a conformation very similar to IGF II, and that the entire length of the C domain is not essential for biological activity.
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- J A Zarn
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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Rhodes C, Lincoln B, Shoelson S. Preferential cleavage of des-31,32-proinsulin over intact proinsulin by the insulin secretory granule type II endopeptidase. Implication of a favored route for prohormone processing. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50007-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Halban PA. Structural domains and molecular lifestyles of insulin and its precursors in the pancreatic beta cell. Diabetologia 1991; 34:767-78. [PMID: 1769434 DOI: 10.1007/bf00408349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Insulin is both produced and degraded within the pancreatic Beta cell. Production involves the synthesis of the initial insulin precursor preproinsulin, which is converted to proinsulin shortly after (or during) translocation into the lumen of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Proinsulin is then transported to the trans-cisternae of the Golgi complex where it is directed towards nascent secretory granules. Conversion of proinsulin to insulin and C-peptide arises within secretory granules, and is dependent upon their acidification. Granule contents are discharged by exocytosis in response to an appropriate stimulus. This represents the regulated secretory pathway to which more than 99% of proinsulin is directed in Beta cells of a healthy individual. An alternative route also exists in the Beta cell, the constitutive secretory pathway. It involves the rapid transfer of products from the Golgi complex to the plasma membrane for immediate release, with, it is supposed, little occasion for prohormone conversion. Even if delivered appropriately to secretory granules, not all insulin is released; some is degraded by fusion of granules with lysosomes (crinophagy). Each event in the molecular lifestyles of insulin and its precursors in the Beta cell will be seen to be governed by their own discrete functional domains. The identification and characterisation of these protein domains will help elucidate the steps responsible for delivery of proinsulin to secretory granules and conversion to insulin. Understanding the molecular mechanism of these steps may, in turn, help to explain defective insulin production in certain disease states including diabetes mellitus.
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- P A Halban
- Laboratoires de Recherche Louis Jeantet, University of Geneva Medical Centre, Switzerland
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Sorting of secreted proteins into dense-core secretory granules may involve selective aggregation of regulated secretory proteins, rather than a conventional sortase. Synaptic vesicles, which mediate paracrine communication between adjacent cells, appear to arise by a modification of the early endosome pathway. Targeting to the cell surface involves the actin-based cytoskeleton and small GTP-binding proteins.
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- R B Kelly
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448
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Kizer JS, Tropsha A. A motif found in propeptides and prohormones that may target them to secretory vesicles. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 174:586-92. [PMID: 1993056 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)91457-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Sorting of prohormones and propeptides into secretory vesicles at the trans-Golgi face probably depends on a signal contained within the amino acid sequence of the peptide. To date no consensus sequence has been identified in prohormones or propeptides that might serve such a targeting function. In this report, we have analyzed the amino acid sequences and secondary structures of 15 prohormones and propeptides that have been shown experimentally to be sorted to secretory vesicles when the corresponding cDNA is transfected into mouse pituitary AtT20 cells. From these analyses, we have identified a motif that is shared by all of these diverse propeptides and might serve as a vesicular targeting sequence. This motif is degenerate and consists of two or more leucines occupying one side of a highly amphipattic alpha helix with a serine (or rarely threonine) positioned N-terminal to the leucines and projecting to the same side of the helix.
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- J S Kizer
- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7250
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Insulin is synthesized as a precursor, preproinsulin, in the rough endoplasmic reticulum of the pancreatic B cell. The combination of precursor processing and the movement of products in vesicles from one subcellular compartment to the next results in insulin becoming stored in secretory granules ready for release in response to a secretagogue.
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- P A Halban
- Laboratoires de Recherche Louis Jeantet, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva Medical School, 1, rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Wollheim CB, Meda P, Halban PA. Establishment and culture of insulin-secreting beta cell lines. Methods Enzymol 1990; 192:223-35. [PMID: 2074790 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(90)92072-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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