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Article Dans Une Revue Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Année : 2000

The SepOvotropin: A New Ovarian Peptide Regulating Oocyte Transport in Sepia officinalis

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In the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, the successive steps of egg laying are controlled by multiple neuropeptides. Recent experiments led us to suppose that there was possible involvement of a second regulation pathway by the release of ovarian regulatory peptides in the genital tract. Using HPLC fractionation and an in vitro biological test, a C-terminal amidated peptide modulating the motility of the Sepia officinalis oviduct was isolated from an extract of vitellogenic ovarian follicles. The mass of this peptide as determined by MALDI-TOF (1501.8 Da) and analysis by Edman degradation led to the following sequence: Pro-Lys-Asp-Ser-Met-Leu-Leu-Leu-Gln-Val-Pro-Val-Tyr-amide. The peptide mapping performed by LC/MS revealed a distribution restricted to the follicles, the full grown oocytes and the eggs. This new peptide, called SepOvotropin, modulated contractions of the whole genital tract in physiological conditions from a threshold concentration between 10(-20) and 10(-19) M, demonstrating for the first time the occurrence of a specific peptidergic control of egg-laying in cephalopods.
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hal-01991100 , version 1 (23-01-2019)

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Céline Zatylny-Gaudin, Jean Gagnon, Eve Boucaud-Camou, Joël Henry. The SepOvotropin: A New Ovarian Peptide Regulating Oocyte Transport in Sepia officinalis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2000, 276 (3), pp.1013-1018. ⟨hal-01991100⟩
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