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dc.contributor.authorAhmed, I.
dc.contributor.authorGlynn, B.
dc.contributor.authorPerkins, Anthony
dc.contributor.authorCastro, MG.
dc.contributor.authorRowe, J.
dc.contributor.authorMorrison, E.
dc.contributor.authorLinton, EA.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:44:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:44:21Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.date.modified2007-03-29T07:58:13Z
dc.identifier.issn0021972X
dc.identifier.doi10.1210/jcem.85.2.6351
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/3453
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the different molecular forms of CRH in normal and preeclampsia maternal plasma and protease-blocked placental extracts using antibodies to different regions of the CRH precursor, pro-CRH. In the absence of protease inhibitors, chromatographed normal placental extracts contained four peaks of immunoreactivity corresponding to unprocessed approximately 19-kDa pro-CRH, its approximately 8-kDa intermediate metabolite, pro-CRH125-194, its approximately 2.8-kDa midportion fragment, pro-CRH125-151, and 4.75-kDa CRH1-41. However, if protease inhibitors were included in the extraction medium, only pro-CRH and pro-CRH125-194 were found. Pro-CRH processing was more extensive in protease-blocked preeclampsia placentas than in those from normal pregnancy, with three peaks corresponding to pro-CRH, pro-CRH125-194, and mature CRH1-41 peptide found. Using quantitative competitive PCR, the messenger ribonucleic acid levels of CRH precursor in preeclampsia placentas were 1.7-fold higher than those in normal placentas (37.83 ᠳ.48 vs. 21.83 ᠲ.59 attomoles/姠total ribonucleic acid, respectively; P < 0.005). Preeclampsia placentas contained significantly more CRH1-41 cross-reactivity (4.72 ᠱ.22 pmol/g) than normal term placentas (1.52 ᠰ.39 pmol/g; P < 0.048) extracted in medium containing protease inhibitors. The content of pro-CRH125-151-reactive species in these extracts followed the same pattern, with more immunoreactivity detected in preeclampsia placentas (4.23 ᠱ.39 pmol/g) than in those from normal term pregnancies (1.44 ᠰ.32 pmol/g; P < 0.01). Sequential plasma samples from 10 women with normal pregnancy and 5 women with preeclampsia were assayed for pro-CRH125-151- and CRH1-41-immunoreactive species. In normal pregnancy, maternal plasma CRH1-41 immunoreactivity rose with increasing gestational age, reaching 460 ᠴ8 pmol/L at term. In women with preeclampsia, CRH1-41 levels at each gestational age point were higher than those at the equivalent stage of normal pregnancy. In contrast, the levels of pro-CRH125-151-immunoreactive species remained barely detectable throughout normal and preeclamptic pregnancy. Both pro-CRH and CRH1-41, but not pro-CRH125-151, were shown to bind to the plasma CRH-binding protein. Our findings highlight the importance of protection of placental tissue from degrading enzymes during extraction and show that most of the CRH in the human placenta exists as unprocessed pro-CRH, with very little in the form of CRH1-41 except in preeclampsia. Our studies using maternal plasma indicate that CRH1-41 is the only one of the pro-CRH fragments studied to be maintained in significant amounts in the maternal circulation and also the only fragment studied for which a specific plasma binding protein exists.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEndocrine Society
dc.publisher.placeUSA
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom755
dc.relation.ispartofpageto764
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
dc.relation.ispartofvolume85
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPaediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1114
dc.titleProcessing of Procorticotrophin-Releasing Hormone (Pro-CRH): Molecular Forms of CRH in Normal and Preeclamptic pregnancy
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2000 Endocrine Society. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This journal is available online - use hypertext links.
gro.date.issued2000
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPerkins, Anthony V.


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