Disruption of PC1/3 expression in mice causes dwarfism and multiple neuroendocrine peptide processing defects
AUTOR(ES)
Zhu, Xiaorong
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
The subtilisin-like proprotein convertases PC1/3 (SPC3) and PC2 (SPC2) are believed to be the major endoproteolytic processing enzymes of the regulated secretory pathway. They are expressed together or separately in neuroendocrine cells throughout the brain and dispersed endocrine system in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Disruption of the gene-encoding mouse PC1/3 has now been accomplished and results in a syndrome of severe postnatal growth impairment and multiple defects in processing many hormone precursors, including hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), pituitary proopiomelanocortin to adrenocorticotropic hormone, islet proinsulin to insulin and intestinal proglucagon to glucagon-like peptide-1 and -2. Mice lacking PC1/3 are normal at birth, but fail to grow normally and are about 60% of normal size at 10 weeks. They lack mature GHRH, have low pituitary growth hormone (GH) and hepatic insulin-like growth factor-1 mRNA levels and resemble phenotypically the “little” mouse (Gaylinn, B. D., Dealmeida, V. I., Lyons, C. E., Jr., Wu, K. C., Mayo, K. E. & Thorner, M. O. (1999) Endocrinology 140, 5066–5074) that has a mutant GHRH receptor. Despite a severe defect in pituitary proopiomelanocortin processing to mature adrenocorticotropic hormone, blood corticosterone levels are essentially normal. There is marked hyperproinsulinemia but without impairment of glucose tolerance. In contrast, PC2-null mice lack mature glucagon and are chronically hypoglycemic (Furuta, M., Yano, H., Zhou, A., Rouille, Y., Holst, J., Carroll, R., Ravazzola, M., Orci, L., Furuta, H. & Steiner, D. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 6646–6651). The PC1/3-null mice differ from a human subject reported with compound heterozygosity for defects in this gene, who was of normal stature but markedly obese from early life. The PC1/3-null mice are not obese. The basis for these phenotypic differences is an interesting topic for further study. These findings prove the importance of PC1/3 as a key neuroendocrine convertase.
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