Arginine vasotocin from the pituitary gland of the lamprey (Petromyzon marinus): Isolation and amino acid sequence

Timothy F. Lane; Stacia A. Sower; Hiroshi Kawauchi

doi:10.1016/0016-6480(88)90104-9

Arginine vasotocin from the pituitary gland of the lamprey (Petromyzon marinus): Isolation and amino acid sequence

Timothy F. Lane, Stacia A. Sower, Hiroshi Kawauchi^*

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Abstract

Arginine vasotocin (AVT) was isolated from extracts of sea lamprey pituitary glands (Petromyzon marinus). The amino acid sequence Cys-Tyr-Ile-Gln-Asn-Cys-Pro-Arg-Gly-NH₂ is identical to the molecule isolated from teleosts and tetrapods. The total yield was estimated to be 9.6 pmol per gland. No evidence could be found for the existence of a second neurohypophyseal nonapeptide in the lamprey pituitary.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	152-157
Number of pages	6
Journal	General and Comparative Endocrinology
Volume	70
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-6480(88)90104-9
State	Published - Apr 1988
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This work was conducted to T.F.L. while he was a visiting scientist at The School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University. The work was supported by the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission and by a NSF grant (DCB-8602907) to S.A.S. We thank Drs. P. Swanson and W. Dickhoff for critically reading the manuscript, and M. Nozaki for many helpful comments.

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Endocrinology
Animal Science and Zoology

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