[The study of physiological chemistry on a subunit of salivary gland hormone (2) (author's transl)].

It had been reported by authors that salivary gland hormone, parotin, was composed with subunit (parotin-subunit) which showed molecular weight of 45,000, and that parotin-subunit had rabbit serum calcium decreasing activity and the cross reactivity with rabbit anti parotin serum. In the present report, in order to study physiological chemistry of parotin-subunit, the influence of parotin-subunit on serum Ca and 45Ca levels relating to calcium metabolism, the distribution of 131I-parotin-subunit, the effect of parotin-subunit, on adenyl cyclase-cyclicAMP system, the anabolic action, C-terminal amino acid sequence and sugar component of parotin-subunit were investigated. The results are summarized as follows: 1) The decrease of rabbit serum Ca after injection of parotin-subunit was related to change of Ca in stable bone, but not to inhibition of bone resorption. 2) A high concentrated localization of radioactivity of 131I-parotin-subunit was found in liver, kidney and spleen, and as much as 60% of administrated radioactivity was localized in liver at 5 min after the injection. The retention of radioactivity was found in testis, seminal vesicle, prostate, parotid gland and submaxillary gland. 3) Cyclic AMP level increased significantly in metaphysial bone, submaxillary gland and plasma after administration of parotin-subunit but in other organs with localized much radioactivities, the level did not changed. Parotin-subunit activated adenyl cyclase of particular fraction of metaphysial bone. 4) The C-terminal amino acid of parotin-subunit was Leu, and its C-terminal amino acid sequence was -Val-Ser-Ala-Thr- Leu-OH by digestion of carboxypeptidase A. 5) Parotin-subunit included 3.3% of sugar which consisted of amino sugar and uronic acid.