We describe the effects of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) and five related peptides on the contractile vacuole, the osmoregulatory organelle of the fresh water Amoeba proteus. Arginine-vasopressin, lysine-vasopressin, and SKF 101926, a synthetic antagonist of vasopressin, cause a significant increase in the rate of output of the contractile vacuole. Deamino-vasopressin (dAVP), oxytocin, and arginine-vasotocin have no such activity, although dAVP interferes with the action of AVP when present in equimolar concentration. Relatively high concentrations are required and the effect of active peptides is readily reversible. When the normal, hypotonic medium (a synthetic pond water) is replaced by isotonic sucrose, the action of AVP on the vacuole is abolished. Thus vasopressin is believed to act by increasing permeability of the Amoeba plasma membrane to water.
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