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Identification, Functional Characterization, and Developmental Expression of Two Nonallelic Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)/PTH-Related Peptide Receptor Isoforms in Xenopus laevis (Daudin)¹

Endocrine Unit (C.B., H.K., K.L., D.R., H.J.), Pediatric Service (H.J.), and Anesthesiology (S.A.F.), Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University (P.K.), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Harald Jüppner, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.

Complementary DNAs encoding two nonallelic PTH/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) receptor (PPR) isoforms, xPPR-A and xPPR-B, were isolated from a kidney complementary DNA library of the tetraploid African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. Both isoforms differ in their coding region by 19 amino acids, and lack the region corresponding to the mammalian exon E2. When expressed in mammalian COS-7 cells, both receptor isoforms bound radiolabeled PTH-(1–34) and PTHrP-(1–36) analogs with comparable affinity, and both unlabeled peptides equivalently stimulated the accumulation of cAMP. xPPR-A also mediated inositol phosphate turnover in COS cells and stimulated channel-mediated current changes in voltage clamp experiments after injection into oocytes.

Using ribonuclease protection analysis, significant xPPR-A messenger RNA expression was first detected in neurula stage embryos, which subsequently increased approximately 30-fold during tadpole development. Expression reached a maximum at the metamorphotic climax, when isoform B also became detectable at significant levels, and subsequently declined in postmetamorphotic froglets. In the adult frog, xPPR-A was prominently expressed in lung, brain, small bowel, and skin, whereas isoform B was highest in lung, heart, and brain. Using an xPPR-A antisense riboprobe for in situ hybridization, expression appeared during metamorphosis at all sites of chondrogenesis, specifically in the maturing zone of the amphibian growth plate. xPPR-A expression was also seen in a subpopulation of mononuclear cells, possibly representing osteoblasts that line perichondral bone and diaphyseal bone trabeculae. Our findings suggest that xPPRs serve a prominent role in amphibian skeletal development and possibly other functions during embryonal and early larval development.

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