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AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 4 734-F739, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society
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J. P. Schofield, D. S. Jones and J. N. Forrest Jr
Medical Research Council, Molecular Genetics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
An unidentified atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)-like substance is the principal hormone regulating NaCl secretion in the shark rectal gland, an epithelial model tissue for hormone-sensitive secondary active chloride transport. Antibodies to mammalian ANP do not recognize the prohormone of marine species. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to isolate a partial cDNA encoding the shark heart natriuretic peptide. Using this partial sequence as a probe, the full-length clone [882 base pairs (bp)] was obtained from a shark heart cDNA library. Amino acids 119-135 are similar to the recently identified peptide sequences of porcine C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) and killifish brain natriuretic peptide isolated from the brain of these species. Mature shark heart CNP terminates at the second cysteine residue and lacks a COOH-terminal extension, in contrast to cardiac ANP-like peptides of all other species. The primary amino acid sequence of the shark heart prepro-CNP is distinctly different from all other cardiac natriuretic peptides. Amplification of genomic DNA spanning the coding region produced a 1.5-kb product, indicating the presence of at least one intron. Sequencing confirmed the presence of two exons of 90 and 315 bp, separated by a 1.1-kb intron. This is the first report of a cDNA encoding in nonneuronal tissue. Elasmobranch CNP may represent a primordial form of ANP-like peptides that evolved as an adaptation to environmental osmoregulatory stress.
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