Processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases: Importance ofPC1 in generation of secretoneurin
- 6 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 360 (3) , 294-298
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(95)00127-u
Abstract
Secretoneurin is a recently characterized neuropeptidepresent in the primary amino acid sequence of secretogranin II. We investigated the proteolytic processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases in vivo in a cellular system using the vaccinia virus system. Both PC1 and PC2 can cleave the secretogranin II precursor at sites of pairs of basic amino acids to yield intermediate‐sized fragments. Other convertases like PACE4, PC5 and furin were not active. For the formation of the free neuropeptide secretoneurin a different pattern was found. Only PC1 but none of the other convertases tested including PC2 were capable of generating secretoneurin. Our results demonstrate that the prohormone convertases PC1 and PC2 are involved in proteolytic processing of secretogranin II. The neuropeptide secretoneurin can only be generated by PC1 suggesting tissue‐specific processing of secretogranin II in neurons expressing different subsets of the prohormone convertases.Keywords
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