Mammalian pancreatic preproglucagon contains three glucagon-related peptides.
AUTOR(ES)
Lopez, L C
RESUMO
We have isolated cDNA clones encoding bovine pancreatic preproglucagon. Twenty-five putative preproglucagon clones were selected by screening 3,100 clones of a fetal bovine pancreas cDNA library with a synthetic oligodeoxynucleotide probe. The probe was a mixture of synthetic 17-base DNA oligomers constructed to correspond to the six carboxyl-terminal amino acids (residues 24-29) of mature glucagon. Restriction mapping of six of these clones suggested that they represented a single mRNA species. Primary sequence analysis of one clone containing a 1,200-base-pair DNA insert revealed that it contained an essentially full-length copy of glucagon mRNA. Analysis of the cDNA suggested a protein coding sequence of 540 nucleotides and 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions of 90 and 471 nucleotides, respectively. This cDNA sequence encoded a 20-amino acid signal sequence followed by one for glicentin, a 69-amino acid polypeptide containing an internal glucagon moiety that has been found in porcine intestines. Glicentin is followed by two additional glucagon-like peptides, each flanked by paired basic amino acids (Lys, Arg) characteristic of prohormone processing. These polypeptide sequences show striking homology with those for glucagon and other members of the glucagon family of peptides.
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