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. 1996 May 14;93(10):4919–4924. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.10.4919

Internal cleavage of the inhibitory 7B2 carboxyl-terminal peptide by PC2: a potential mechanism for its inactivation.

X Zhu 1, Y Rouille 1, N S Lamango 1, D F Steiner 1, I Lindberg 1
PMCID: PMC39380  PMID: 8643504

Abstract

The neuroendocrine protein 7B2 contains two domains, a 21-kDa protein required for prohormone convertase 2 (PC2) maturation and a carboxyl-terminal (CT) peptide that inhibits PC2 at nanomolar concentrations. To determine how the inhibition of PC2 is terminated, we studied the metabolic fate of the 7B2 CT peptide in RinPE-7B2, AtT-20/PC2-7B2, and alphaTC1-6 cells. Extracts obtained from cells labeled for 6 h with [3H]valine were subjected to immunoprecipitation using an antibody raised against the extreme carboxyl terminus of r7B2, and immunoprecipitated peptides were separated by gel filtration. All three cell lines yielded two distinct peaks at about 3.5 kDa and 1.5 kDa, corresponding to the CT peptide and a smaller fragment consistent with cleavage at an interior Lys-Lys site. These results were corroborated using a newly developed RIA against the carboxyl terminus of the CT peptide which showed that the intact CT peptide represented only about half of the stored CT peptide immunoreactivity, with the remainder present as the 1.5-kDa peptide. Both peptides could be released upon phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate stimulation. We investigated the possibility that PC2 itself could be responsible for this cleavage by performing in vitro experiments. When 125I-labeled CT peptide was incubated with purified recombinant PC2, a smaller peptide was generated. Analysis of CT peptide derivatives for their inhibitory potency revealed that CT peptide 1-18 (containing Lys-Lys at the carboxyl terminus) represented a potent inhibitor, but that peptide 1-16 was inactive. Inclusion of carboxypeptidase E (CPE) in the reaction greatly diminished the inhibitory potency of the CT peptide against PC2, in line with the notion that the CT peptide cleavage product is not inhibitory after the removal of terminal lysines by CPE. In summary, our data support the idea that PC2 cleaves the 7B2 CT peptide at its internal Lys-Lys site within secretory granules; deactivation of the cleavage product is then accomplished by CPE, thus providing an efficient mechanism for intracellular inactivation of the CT peptide.

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