Abstract
Extracts of human colon mucosa and muscle were fractionated by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography and molecular forms of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) estimated by radioimmunoassay. Total concentrations of immunoreactive VIP in mucosa were 237.1 ± 53.9 and 119 ± 26.0 pmoles per g in muscle. In muscle, over 90% of the immunoreactivity was accounted for by a single component indistinguishable from porcine VIP by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography. In contrast, mucosa contained four components with VIP-like immunoreactivity. One of these had the chromatographic properties of porcine VIP; the others were less positively charged. Two of the new VIP-like components had gel filtration properties similar to those of VIP and are, therefore, probably of similar size to the porcine octacosapeptide, and the remaining component emerged later on Sephadex and is, therefore, probably a smaller peptide. Immunoreactive VIP in muscle extracts is believed to originate from nerve fibers, and this form of VIP is likely to be identical to the previously characterized form of VIP. However, immunoreactive VIP in mucosal extracts may originate either from endocrine cells or nerve fibers. The possibility arises, then, that there are different immunoreactive forms of VIP in nerves and endocrine cells.
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