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  • Title: Amino acid sequence of catfish pancreatic somatostatin I.
    Author: Oyama H, Bradshaw RA, Bates OJ, Permutt A.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1980 Mar 25; 255(6):2251-4. PubMed ID: 7358665.
    Abstract:
    Two peptides, pancreatic somatostatins I and II, larger and more acidic than synthetic tetradecapeptide somatostatin, have been purified from pancreatic islets of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctata). These peptides have reduced immunoreactivity in a radioimmunoassay for synthetic somatostatin, but full biological activity was measured as inhibition of growth hormone released from isolated rat anterior pituitary cells. Pancreatic somatostatin I is composed of 22 amino acids. Eight additional amino acids are found as an NH2-terminal extension of the segment which is homologous to synthetic tetradecapeptide somatostatin. Seven of fourteen residues of tetradecapeptide somatostatin are present in the COOH-terminal portion of catfish pancreatic somatostatin I. The sequence is NH2-Asp-Asn-Thr-Val-Arg-Ser-Lys-Pro-Leu-Asn-Cys-Met-Asn-Tyr-Phe-Trp-Lys-Ser-Ser-Thr-Ala-Cys-COOH. There is considerable homology with the carboxyl end of synthetic tetradecapeptide somatostatin.
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