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    Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1989 May 15;160(3):1364-70.

    Purification and structural determination of urinary NH2-terminal big gastrin fragments.

    Higashimoto Y, Himeno S, Shinomura Y, Nagao K, Tamura T, Tarui S.

    Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

    We previously demonstrated that there existed extremely abundant NH2-terminal big gastrin immunoreactivity (NT G-34-IR) in human urine. This report describes the purification and sequence of NT G-34-IR from the urine of an achlorhydric patient. The purification was carried out by a combination of Sep-Pak C18 cartridges, Sephadex G-25, and HPLC steps using a radioimmunoassay specific for NH2-terminus of G-34 and ultraviolet absorption at 214 nm as monitors. Three peptides were isolated. The amino acid analysis, mass spectrometry, and sequence analysis confirmed the structures of urinary NT G-34 fragments being less than Glu-Leu-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly-Pro-Pro, less than Glu-Leu-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly- Pro-Pro-His, and less than Glu- Leu-Gly-Pro-Gln-Gly-Pro-Pro-His-Leu. NH2-terminal octapeptide of G-34 was the main component of urinary NT G-34-IR.

    PMID: 2730647 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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