Leumorphin is a novel endogenous opioid peptide in man

Add time:07/14/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

Porcine leumorphin, a putative opioid peptide corresponding to amino acid residues 228–256 of preproenkephalin B has been demonstrated to exist in the porcine neurointermediate pituitary. A recent study on the sequence analysis of genomic DNA of human preproenkephalin B has shown that human leumorphin differs in 3 amino acid residues from porcine leumorphin. In order to clarify whether leumorphin is an endogenous opioid peptide in man, we have studied its existence in the human brain using a radioimmunoassay and its opioid activity by a bioassay with the guinea-pig ileum myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation. High performance gel permeation chromatography and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled with the radioimmunoassay for leumorphin have revealed that human leumorphin exists in water extracts of the human striatum. In the guinea-pig ileum assay, synthetic human leumorphin exhibited potent opioid activity, with the concentration of 3nM to give 50 per cent inhibition. These results indicate that leumorphin is a novel endogenous opioid peptide in man.

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