Endocrinology, Vol 137, 5537-5543, Copyright © 1996 by Endocrine Society

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The 69-84 amino acid region of the parathyroid hormone molecule is essential for the interaction of the hormone with the binding sites with carboxyl-terminal specificity

H Takasu, H Baba, N Inomata, Y Uchiyama, N Kubota, K Kumaki, A Matsumoto, K Nakajima, T Kimura, S Sakakibara, T Fujita, K Chihara and I Nagai
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan.

We evaluated the competitive inhibitory effect of intact PTH, the amino- terminal PTH(1-34) fragment, and a series of truncated carboxyl- terminal PTH fragments on the binding of internally 35S-labeled human PTH(1-84) ([35S]hPTH(1-84)) to osteoblastic cells (ROS 17/2.8), in order to identify the minimum and critical elements within the PTH molecule for the interaction with the binding sites specific for the carboxyl-terminal region of the hormone. When the amino-terminal region of the PTH molecule was truncated stepwise, hPTH(35-84), hPTH(53-84) and hPTH(69-84), but not hPTH(70-84), significantly inhibited the [35S]hPTH(1-84) binding. On the other hand, the simple deletion of the carboxyl-terminal glutamine at position 84 of hPTH(53-84) [hPTH(53-83)] resulted in blunting the inhibitory effect of the peptide on the [35S]hPTH(1-84) binding. Furthermore, hPTH(35-84), hPTH(53-84) and hPTH(69-84), but not hPTH(70-84) nor hPTH(53-83), augmented the inhibitory effect of the amino-terminal PTH fragment [hPTH(1-34)] on the [35S]hPTH(1-84) binding. Of special interest was that the combination of hPTH(1-34) and hPTH(35-84) reproduced the inhibitory effect of unlabeled hPTH(1-84) on the [35S]hPTH(1-84) binding, on an equimolar basis. The 69-84 region of the PTH molecule thus appears to be crucial for binding to the carboxyl-terminal specific binding sites for PTH in osteoblasts. The interaction of the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal regions of a PTH molecule with their own respective binding sites seemed to occur in a fairly independent manner.

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