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The inactivation of the neurohypophyseal hormones arginine vasopressin and oxytocin, both 14C-labelled in the C-terminal glycine residue, by enzymes present in kidney homogenates of various species has been investigated, and some of the enzymes responsible have been partially purified and characterized. The Leu-Gly peptide bond of oxytocin is generally most effectively cleaved by kidney homogenates, although with certain species enzymic activity hydrolyzing the Pro-Leu bond is significant. Degradation of arginine vasopressin is slower than oxytocin in all species studied, and appears to occur by a different overall mechanism since cleavage of the Pro-Arg bond is more significant than hydrolysis of the Arg-Gly bond. The enzyme releasing glycinamide from oxytocin and the "Post-Proline Cleaving Enzyme", which releases C-terminal dipeptide from oxytocin and arginine vasopressin, were partially purified from lamb kidney by ammonium sulfate fractionation and column chromatography. The two enzymes are shown to be separate entities with different pH profiles. The prolyl peptidase activity released the C-terminal dipeptides from oxytocin and arginine vasopressin at similar rates and was inhibited by p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonic acid, 1,10-phenanthroline, L-1-tosylamido-2-phenylethylchloromethyl ketone, Co2+, Ca2+, and Zn2+, but significantly enhanced by dithiothreitol. The prolyl peptidase preparation cleaves proline-containing peptide substrates at the Pro-X bond. The rate of cleavage is dependent on the nature of residue X and with the conditions used there is no cleavage when X equals Pro; however, cleavage occurs when X is a D isomer: [Mpr1, D-Arg8] vasopressin is inactivated at a rate similar to [Mpr1, Arg8]- and [Mpr1, Lys8] vasopressin, suggesting that the known prolonged biological action of [Mpr1, D-Arg8] vasopressin is not due to resistance to the prolyl peptidase. In all characteristics tested the lamb kidney prolyl peptidase was identical to the post-proline cleaving enzyme isolated earlier from human uterus. In vivo experiments in the cat suggested that both the glycinamide-releasing enzyme and post-proline cleaving enzyme are present and effective in inactivating neurohypophyseal hormones in the intact animal.
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PMID:Partial purification and characterization of post-proline cleaving enzyme: enzymatic inactivation of neurohypophyseal hormones by kidney preparations of various species. 0

The endopeptidase, post-proline cleaving enzyme, has been purified 10,500-fold in an overall yield of 18% from lamb kidney. The enzyme possesses a specific activity of 45 mumol/mg/min as tested with the substrate Z-Gly-Pro-Leu-Gly (Km = 6.0 X 10(-5)), has a molecular weight of 115,000, is comprised of two subunits with a molecular weight of 57,000, and exhibits maximal activity at pH 7.5 to 8.0. With the exception of the -Pro-Pro linkage, the -Pro-X-peptide bond (X equals L- and D-amino acid residues) located internally in the peptide sequence can be hydrolyzed (cleavage occurs faster when X = lipophilic side chain as compared to X = acidic side chain). The appropriate -Pro-X- bonds in zinc-free porcine insulin, oxytocin, arginine vasopressin, angiotensin II, bradykinin-potentiating factor were cleaved. Human gastrin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, denatured guinea pig skin collagen, and ascaris cuticle collagen were not degraded. Dipeptides with the structure Z-Pro-LD-X competitively inhibit post-proline cleaving enzyme.
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PMID:Post-proline cleaving enzyme. Purification of this endopeptidase by affinity chromatography. 1 73

Systematic analysis of the hydrolysis of benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz)-dipeptides by cathepsin A [EC 3.4.12.1] purified from rat liver lysosomes showed that multiple forms of cathepsin A preferentially cleave peptide bonds with leucine, methionine, and phenylalanine. Cbz-Met-Met, -Met-Phe, -Phe-Met, and -Phe-Ala were hydrolyzed 6 to 8 times faster than the standard substrates, Cbz-Glu-Phe and Cbz-Glu-Tyr. The pH optima of the hydrolyses were 4.6 to 5.8. Hydrolysis of peptide bonds with glycine, isoleucine, and proline was very slow, but the rate depended on the nature of the adjacent amino acids. Proteins such as albumin, cytochrome c, gamma-globulin, hemoglobin, histone, myoglobin, and myosin were scarecely degraded. Peptide hormones, such as glucagon and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) were hydrolyzed markedly with optimum pH's of 4.5 and 4.6, respectively. Angiotensin I, II, bradykinin, Lys- and Met-Lysbradykinin (kallidin and Met-kallidin), and substance P were also hydrolyzed at appreciable rates. pH optima for these peptide hormones were 5.2 to 5.6. On the other hand, insulin and its A chain, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH), oxytocin and vasopressin were cleaved slowly. In the hydrolyses of glucagon and other peptides, multiple forms of rat liver lysosomal cathepsin A again showed a carboxypeptidase nature, cleaving peptide bonds sequentially from the carboxyl terminal. Almost all of the amino acids were cleaved on prolonged incubation. Vaso-activites of angiotensin II and bradykinin were rapidly lost on hydrolysis by cathepsin A. Lysosomal cathepsin C [dipeptidylaminopeptidase I, EC 3.4.14.1] also activated angiotensin II, but did not inactive bradykinin. Cathepsin A, therefore, can be regarded as one of the lysosomal angiotensinases and kinases. No distinct differences were observed between the multiple forms of cathepsin A in these hydrolyses and inactivations of peptides.
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PMID:Studies on cathepsins of rat liver lysosomes. III. Hydrolysis of peptides, and inactivation of angiotensin and bradykinin by cathepsin A. 1 61

Experimental conditions and parameters involved in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separations of the peptide hormone oxytocin and seven of its diastereoisomers, namely [1-hemi-D-cystine]-, [2-D-tyrosine]-, [4-D-glutamine]-, [5-D-asparagine]-, [6-hemi-D-cystine-], [7-D-proline]-, and [8-D-leucine]-oxytocin, on reverse phase columns were investigated. The effects of solvent, pH, and salt concentration were studied. Using the solvent systems 10% tetrahydrofuran-ammonium acetate buffer or 18% acetonitrile-ammonium acetate buffer and the muBondapak C18 support, oxytocin was separated from each of its diastereoisomers under all conditions studied, but the order of elution of diastereoisomers was highly dependent on solvent and to a lesser extent on pH. Separations of the hormone and its diastereoisomers on reverse phase HPLC and on classical partition chromatography on Sephadex G-25 were compared. The results are discussed in terms of the interactions of the solute with the reverse phase column and the solvent system. Implications of these findings in terms of the different solution conformations of the peptides are discussed.
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PMID:The separation of peptide hormone diastereoisomers by reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography. Factors affecting separation of oxytocin and its diastereoisomers--structural implications. 3 28

The specifically 13C-labeled (90% 13C-enriched) peptide hormone derivatives [1-hem[2-13C]cystine]oxytocin, [1-hemi[1-13C]cystine]oxytocin, and [2-[-2-13C]tyrosine[-oxytocin and the analogue [3-[2-13C]leucine]oxytocin were prepared by total synthesis and used to study the interactions of the neurohypophyseal hormones with the bovine neurophysins as a function of pH and temperature. Under all conditions, whether high or low pH, the chemical shifts of the labeled carbon atoms of the bound hormones are the same, but they are shifted significantly from their positions in the free hormone. These results indicate that interactions of the side chain and disulfide moieties of the hormone with the neurophysins do not change as a function of pH. At neutral pH and 20--35 degrees C, the labeled atoms of the hormone are in slow exchange (1--5 s-1) with the neurophysins for the above hormone derivatives, but at low pH they are in intermediate or fast exchange depending upon the pH and temperature. At low pH, the dissociation rate constant (koff) is about 100-fold greater than the value at neutral pH, and this increase appears to be due exclusively to the breaking of the salt bridge involving the N-terminal amino group of oxytocin and a side-chain carboxyl group of neurophysin. Since the dissociation constant (Kd) also increases by about 100-fold in going from neutral to low pH, the association rate constant is deduced to be the same at neutral and low pH. In contrast to the low pH results, an increase in pH (from 6.6 to 10.5) leads to a continual decrease in the binding constant but to no apparent change in the dissociation rate constant. The bound hormone is always in slow exchange at high pH, even when the binding constant has been reduced by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. At high pH, the decrease in binding affinity is due solely to the deprotonation of the alpha-amino group of the free hormone. Thus, at high pH the apparent association rate constant decreases, while the dissociation rate constant remains unchanged.
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PMID:Investigation of the interactions of oxytocin with neurophysins at low pH using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and carbon-13-labeled hormones. 3 33

Deamino-[8-N-methylleucine]oxytocin and deamino-[8-alpha-hydroxyisocaproic acid]oxytocin were synthesized to study the importance of hydrogen bonding between the carboxamide carbonyl of asparagine and the peptide N-H of leucine in stabilizing the biologically active conformation of oxytocin. The analogs were synthesized by coupling deaminotocinoic acid with Pro-Leu(Me)-Gly-NH2 and Pro-HyIc-Gly-NH2, respectively. (HyIc is alpha-hydroxyisocaproic acid). Deamino-[8-N-methylleucine]oxytocin was found to possess 48 +/- 7 units of uterotonic activity, 33 +/- 5 units of avian vasodepressor activity, and 3.15 +/- 1.5 units of antidiuretic activity per mg; deamino-[8-alpha-hydroxyisocaproic acid]oxytocin possessed 134 +/- 12 units of uterotonic activity, 31 +/- 3 units of avian vasodepressor activity, 9.6 +/- 3.0 units of antidiuretic activity, and 0.26 +/- 0.02 unit of pressor activity per mg. Neither of the analogs possesses the peptide N-H at residue 8 required for the formation of a hydrogen bond with the asparagine carboxamide; however, both can assume the conformation needed to evoke the characteristic biological activities of oxytocin although in lower potency. It is concluded that such a hydrogen bond does not constitute a conformational constraint that is essential for hormone action.
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PMID:Biofunctional evaluation of a hydrogen bond linking the ring and tail beta-turns of oxytocin. 29 Oct 4

Biosynthesis of peptides in vitro in male rat hypothalamic fragments wasinvestigated by incubating the tissue with 14C-labelled leucine, proline and glycine. Depending on the amino acid used, 4 or 6 labelled peptides were extracted from the tissue fragments with organic solvent mixture. The incorporation of the label into peptides was time dependent. LH-RH and oxytocin thus synthesized were identified by thin layer chromatography and high voltage electrophoresis using cold LH-RH and oxytocin as standards.
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PMID:Incorporation of 14C-amino acids into rat hypothalamus in vitro. 32 95

1. Two enzymes acting on the linear portion of oxytocin: carboxamidopeptidase (releasing Gly . NH2) and prolyl peptidase (releasing Leu-Gly . NH2) were identified in the cytoplasmic fraction of chicken liver. 2. Carboxamidopeptidase was purified 134-fold with a 23% yield, and prolyl peptiase 71-fold with a 20% yield. The specific activity of the final preparations was 181 and 96 microU/mg protein, respectively. 3. The optimum pH for carboxamidopeptidase was 6.0--6.5 and for prolyl peptidase, 7.5. Carboxamidopeptidase activity was inhibited by Mn2+, Zn2+, Ca2+, Co2+, and stimulated by EDTA; the activity of prolyl peptidase was inhibited by Zn2+ and Mn2+. The Km value of both enzymes for oxytocin was 1.5--2.4 microM.
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PMID:Partial purification and characterization of the oxytocin-inactivating enzymes from chicken liver. 39 2

[1-Penicillamine,2-leucine]oxytocin was synthesized by the solid-phase method of peptide synthesis and purified by partition chromatography on Sephadex G-25, followed by gel filtration. The peptide was found to be a very potent competitive inhibitor of oxytocin in the oxytocic assay with a pA2 of 7.14 and an inhibitor of oxytocin in the milk-ejecting assay. The compound showed no agonist activity in either of these assays, and its inhibitory activity at the uterus was of prolonged duration. The 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectral properties and the 13C T1 (spin-lattice) relaxation times of [Pen1,Leu2]oxytocin were determined, and the results were compared with previous studies of [Pen1]oxytocin, a related competitive inhibitor, and oxytocin, the native hormone agonist. These studies indicated that the hormone inhibitors [Pen1,Leu2]oxytocin and [Pen1]oxytocin have similar conformational and dynamic properties which are different than those of the agonist, oxytocin.
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PMID:[1-Penicillamine,2-leucine]oxytocin. Synthesis and pharmacological and conformational studies of a potent peptide hormone inhibitor. 42 85

Oxytocin (OT) was synthesized employing the solid phase method. Resins made of copolymers of polystyrene-1%-crosslinked with divinylbenzene gave better yields (73-95%) of Z-Cys(Bzl)-Tyr(Bzl)-Ile-Gln-Asn-Cys(Bzl)-Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 (I) than 2%-crosslinked resins (10--56%). Reduction of I with Na-liq.NH3 and oxidation with I2-MeOH at -40 degrees minimized dimer and polymer formation, and resulted in good yields (49--54%) of OT. The large volumes of MeOH required when several grams of I are reduced and then oxidized were rapidly evaporated in vacuo, and the residue was desalted by dissolving the peptide in a small volume of glacial acetic acid and filtering to remove the salt. OT was purified by adsorption chromatography on a silica gel column with combinations of MeOH-CHCl3 of graded polarity. Oxytocin elutes with 33% MeOH-CHCl3. After two purification steps by adsorption chromatography, the resulting OT was found to be homogeneous. The hormone was characterized chemically and found to be active biologically.
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PMID:Synthesis of oxytocin using iodine for oxidative cyclization and silica gel adsorption chromatography for purification. 42 90


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