The importance of the nine-amino acid C-terminal sequence of exendin-4 for binding to the GLP-1 receptor and for biological activity

Exendin-4, a 39-amino acid (AA) peptide, is a long-acting agonist at the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor. Consequently, it may be preferable to GLP-1 as a long-term treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Exendin-4 (Ex-4), unlike GLP-1, is not degraded by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV), i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Regulatory peptides 2003-07, Vol.114 (2), p.153-158
Hauptverfasser: Doyle, Máire E, Theodorakis, Michael J, Holloway, Harold W, Bernier, Michel, Greig, Nigel H, Egan, Josephine M
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Zusammenfassung:Exendin-4, a 39-amino acid (AA) peptide, is a long-acting agonist at the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor. Consequently, it may be preferable to GLP-1 as a long-term treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Exendin-4 (Ex-4), unlike GLP-1, is not degraded by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV), is less susceptible to degradation by neutral endopeptidase, and possesses a nine-AA C-terminal sequence absent from GLP-1. Here we examine the importance of these nine AAs for biological activity of Ex-4, a sequence of truncated Ex-4 analogs, and native GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogs to which all or parts of the C-terminal sequence have been added. We found that removing these AAs from Ex-4 to produce Ex (1–30) reduced the affinity for the GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R) relative to Ex-4 (IC 50: Ex-4, 3.22±0.9 nM; Ex (1–30), 32±5.8 nM) but made it comparable to that of GLP-1 (IC 50: 44.9±3.2 nM). The addition of this nine-AA sequence to GLP-1 improved the affinity of both GLP-1 and the DPP IV resistant analog GLP-1 8-glycine for the GLP-1 receptor (IC 50: GLP-1 Gly 8 [GG], 220±23 nM; GLP-1 Gly 8 Ex (31–39), 74±11 nM). Observations of the cAMP response in an insulinoma cell line show a similar trend for biological activity.
ISSN:0167-0115
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DOI:10.1016/S0167-0115(03)00120-4