Abstract
The effect of amino acid substitutions introduced to the third alpha-helix in bovine GH (bGH) was investigated. A GH analog (bGH-M8), in which three amino acids were substituted to form an idealized amphiphilic alpha-helix, possessed the same specific binding affinity as wild-type bGH to cell membranes prepared from 3T3-F442A cells or rat adipocytes. However, bGH-M8 failed to stimulate preadipocyte differentiation, as measured by the level of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity. An equimolar concentration of bGH-M8 was inhibitory for this adipogenic effect caused by bGH at a concentration of 30 pM. bGH-M8 also failed to induce an insulin-like response and reduced lipolytic potency in rat primary adipocytes. A 10-fold excess of bGH-M8 abolished the effect of wild-type bGH in the insulin-like and lipolytic assays. Thus, bGH-M8 inhibited these actions of wild-type bGH and, therefore, appears to be a competitive antagonist. These results suggest that a major biologically active domain resides in the third alpha-helix of bGH, which is independent of amino acids important in the initial interaction of GH with its receptor.
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