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  • Title: Conversion of porcine big endothelin to endothelin by an extract from the porcine aortic endothelial cells.
    Author: Matsumura Y, Ikegawa R, Takaoka M, Morimoto S.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1990 Feb 28; 167(1):203-10. PubMed ID: 2178607.
    Abstract:
    Conversion of porcine big endothelin (big ET) to endothelin (ET) by an extract from cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells was investigated using a radioimmunoassay (RIA) specific for ET and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). When big ET was incubated with the extract at an acid pH in the presence of E-64, a cysteine protease inhibitor, the amount of immunoreactive-ET (IR-ET) in the incubation mixture was greatly increased and the optimum pH for this increased reaction was 4.0. The extract-induced increase in IR-ET was completely inhibited by pepstatin-A. These immunoreactive alterations correlated with those in the vasoconstrictor activity. When the incubation mixture of big ET with the cell extract was applied to the RP-HPLC, the IR-ET eluted at the same retention time as seen with synthetic porcine ET. We suggest that a pepstatin-sensitive aspartic protease is involved in the conversion of big ET to ET in vascular endothelial cells.
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