| Literature DB >> 6771754 |
C Patzelt, H S Tager, R J Carroll, D F Steiner.
Abstract
A 12.5-kilodalton protein not related to insulin or glucagon was detected in pulse-chase-labeled rat islets of Langerhans. Although this protein reacted poorly with various somatostatin antisera, analysis of two-dimensional peptide maps showed that it contains all of the tryptic fragments of somatostatin, which is located at its COOH terminus. Proteolytic conversion of the putative prosomatostatin, which took place parallel to the processing of proinsulin and proglucagon in pulse-chase experiments, coincided with the appearance of newly synthesized somatostatin and proceeded without the apparent involvement of major intermediate forms.Entities:
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Year: 1980 PMID: 6771754 PMCID: PMC349408 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.77.5.2410
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205