Abstract
A cDNA clone encoding molluscan insulin-related peptide (MIP) II was isolated from a cDNA library of the central nervous system (CNS) of the freshwater snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, using a heterologous screening with a previously identified MIP cDNA (renamed MIP-I cDNA). The MIP-II cDNA encodes a preprohormone resembling the organization of preproinsulin, with a putative signal sequence, and A and B chains; however, in this case connected by two distinct C peptides, C alpha and C beta, instead of a single C peptide, a phenomenon which represents a new development in the prohormone organization of peptides belonging to the insulin superfamily. The A and B chains of MIP II and I differ remarkably in primary structure; in contrast, the C alpha peptide domains are fully identical. MIP II has only limited sequence similarity with insulins and related peptides. Both MIP II and I exhibit structural features, which make them a unique class of the insulin superfamily. The MIP I and II genes are expressed in a single type of neuron: the growth-controlling neuroendocrine light green cells of the Lymnaea CNS.
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