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Cell Type-Specific Metabolism of Peptidylglycine -Amidating Monooxygenase in Anterior Pituitary¹

Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Betty A. Eipper, Department of Neuroscience, WBSB 907, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205. E-mail: beipper{at}jhmi.edu

Peptidylglycine -amidating monooxygenase (PAM) is a bifunctional enzyme expressed in each major anterior pituitary cell type. We used primary cultures of adult male rat anterior pituitary to examine PAM expression, processing, and secretion in the different pituitary cell types and to compare these patterns to those observed in transfected AtT-20 corticotrope tumor cells. Immunostaining and subcellular fractionation identified PAM in pituitary secretory granules and additional vesicular compartments; in contrast, in AtT-20 cells, transfected PAM was primarily localized to the trans-Golgi network. PAM expression was highest in gonadotropes, with moderate levels in somatotropes and thyrotropes and lower levels in corticotropes and lactotropes. Under basal conditions, less than 1% of the cell content of monooxygenase activity was secreted per h, a rate comparable to the basal rate of release of individual pituitary hormones. General secretagogues stimulated PAM secretion 3- to 5-fold. Stimulation with specific hypothalamic releasing hormones demonstrated that different pituitary cell types secrete characteristic sets of PAM proteins. Gonadotropes and thyrotropes release primarily monofunctional monooxygenase. Somatotropes secrete primarily bifunctional PAM, whereas corticotropes secrete a mixture of mono- and bifunctional proteins. As observed in transfected AtT-20 cells, pituitary cells rapidly internalize the PAM/PAM-antibody complex from the cell surface. The distinctly different steady-state localizations of endogenous PAM in primary pituitary cells and transfected PAM in AtT-20 cell lines may simply reflect the increased storage capacity of primary pituitary cells.

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