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  • Title: Changes in the polypeptide composition related to the growth response in chronically isoproterenol-stimulated mouse parotid glands.
    Author: López-Solís RO, Alliende C, González J, Miranda D.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1987 Oct 01; 930(3):463-9. PubMed ID: 3651510.
    Abstract:
    The administration of isoproterenol induces DNA-synthesis mitosis and growth (increase in size) responses in mouse parotid glands. Both responses were uncoupled by means of daily stimulations with isoproterenol in such a way that the DNA-synthesis mitosis response was observed during the first 4 days only, whereas the growth response was continuous since the first stimulation until about day 12. In parallel to the chronic stimulation by isoproterenol, drastic changes in the polypeptide composition of parotid glands were observed. These modifications, consisting basically of the reduction in content of a couple of major poly peptides (polypeptides A and B) together with the reciprocal massive accumulation of five new polypeptides (polypeptides C, D, E, F and G), were also progressive and continuous along the chronic stimulation by isoproterenol, even after the disappearance of the DNA-synthesis mitosis response. Thus, a relationship between specific changes in the mouse parotid content of polypeptides A, B, C, D, E, F and G and the isoproterenol-induced growth response, rather than with the DNA-synthesis mitosis response, is suggested. The correlation is firmly supported by the progressive recovery of the normal polypeptide composition upon suspending isoproterenol treatment, which allows parotid glands to return to normal size parameters.
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