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Evidence for the presence of peptides, related to insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2), has been obtained in the endocrine pancreas of the elasmobranchian species Raja clavata, the sting ray. By radioimmunoassay, IGF-2-like immunoreactivity was detected in Raja pancreas extract. Further characterization of this activity by acid gel chromatography revealed two distinct peaks of IGF-2-like immunoreactivity with apparent molecular weights of approximately 8.2 kDa and 4.5 kDa. Using the same IGF-2 antibody as well as antisera specific for mammalian IGF-1, insulin, glucagon, somatostatin and pancreatic polypeptide in double immunofluorescence studies, IGF-2-like immunoreactivity was located exclusively in insulin-immunoreactive cells. In contrast, IGF-1-like immunoreactivity was mainly observed in somatostatin-and glucagon-immunoreactive cells. A varying proportion (0–70%) of insulin-immunoreactive cells, however, displayed both IGF-1- and IGF-2-like immunoreactivity. Absorption studies indicated that the IGF-2-like peptides in Raja are different from mammalian and submammalian insulin and mammalian IGF-1, but similar to mammalian IGF-2. Thus, IGF-2-like peptides seem to occur during evolution as early as the phylogenetic development of the elasmobranchians. Furthermore, the results indicate a particularly conservative evolution of the islet IGF-2 system.
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Reinecke, M., Weimar, E., Maake, C. et al. IGF-2-like peptides are present in insulin cells of the elasmobranchian endocrine pancreas: an immunohistochemical and chromatographic study. Histochemistry 102, 365–371 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268907
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