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Use of reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography in structural studies of neurophysins, photolabeled derivatives, and biosynthetic precursors
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Use of reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography in structural studies of neurophysins, photolabeled derivatives, and biosynthetic precursors

David M. Abercrombie, Christopher J. Hough, Jonathan R. Seeman, Michael J. Brownstein, Harold Gainer, James T. Russell and Irwin M. Chaiken
Analytical biochemistry, v 125(2), pp 395-405
1982
PMID: 7181098

Abstract

The neurophysins are a class of hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal proteins that function as carriers of the neuropeptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin. Currently, we are using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography for structural characterization of the neurophysins, their chemically modified derivatives, and biosynthetic precursors. A cyanopropylsilyl (Zorbax CN) matrix has been found to be efficient and convenient for separation of major tryptic peptides of performic acid, oxidized or reduced, and alkylated neurophysins. Using this peptide mapping system we have studied the site of modification of a photoaffinitylabeled derivative of bovine neurophysin II by separation and identification of covalently modified peptides. In addition, this system has been used for mapping subfemtomole amounts of radioactively labeled biosynthetic precursors of the neurophysins. This procedure has allowed identification of neurophysin sequences within both pre-pro-neurophysins produced by in vitro translation and rat pro-neurophysins produced by in vivo pulse labeling.

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