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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 30, 855-862, Copyright © 1984 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Peptidase activity in the hypothalamus and pituitary of the rat: fluctuations and possible regulatory role of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone-degrading activity during the estrous cycle

JL O'Conner, CA Lapp and VB Mahesh

Peptidase activity capable of inactivating luteinizing hormone (LHRH) may have a physiological role in partially determining hypothalamic LHRH levels as well as LHRH levels at the gonadotrope. In our previous work ( Lapp and O' Conner , 1984, companion paper), use of the synthetic substrate leucine-p-nitroanilide (Leu-p-NA) to assay LHRH- degradative activity was validated by several methods. The current studies were conducted in order to monitor peptidase activity in the hypothalamus and pituitary throughout the rat 4-day estrous cycle. Activity in both tissues was significantly decreased during proestrus and diestrus I. It seems possible that the proestrous reduction in peptidase activity represents a permissive period necessary for the induction of the LHRH and LH surges. The decreased degradative activity in the pituitary on diestrus I may be involved in inducing the pituitary LHRH receptors which are reportedly synthesized prior to proestrus. The peptidase exhibits positive cooperativity with Leu-p-NA, and the degree of this cooperativity also fluctuates during the estrous cycle. Estradiol and progesterone given alone or in combination to prepubertal castrate animals increased the activity of the hypothalamic peptidase in vitro. The degree of positive cooperativity with which the enzyme functioned was also apparently altered by these gonadal steroids.


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