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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
40
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-11-14
pubmed:abstractText
Neutrophil chemotaxis plays an important role in the inflammatory response and when excessive or persistent may augment tissue damage. The effects of inhibitors indicated the involvement of one or more serine proteinases in human neutrophil migration and shape change in response to a chemoattractant. Monospecific antibodies, chloromethylketone inhibitors, and reactive-site mutants of alpha 1-antitrypsin and alpha 1-antichymotrypsin were used to probe the specificity of the proteinases involved in chemotaxis. Antibodies specific for cathepsin G inhibited chemotaxis. Moreover, rapid inhibitors of cathepsin G and alpha-chymotrypsin suppressed neutrophil chemotaxis to the chemoattractants N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine (fMLP) and zymosan-activated serum in multiple blind well assays and to fMLP in migration assays under agarose. The concentrations of antichymotrypsin mutants that reduced chemotaxis by 50% would inactivate free cathepsin G with a half-life of 1.5-3 s, whereas the concentrations of chloromethylketones required to produce a similar inhibition of chemotaxis would inactivate cathepsin G with a half-life of 345 s. These data suggest different modes of action for these two classes of inhibitors. Indeed the chloromethylketone inhibitors of cathepsin G (Z-Gly-Leu-Phe-CMK) and to a lesser extent of chymotrypsin (Cbz-Gly-Gly-Phe-CMK) mediated their effect by preventing a shape change in the purified neutrophils exposed to fMLP. Antichymotrypsin did not affect shape change in response to fMLP even at concentrations that were able to reduce neutrophil chemotaxis by 50%. These results support the involvement of cell surface proteinases in the control of cell migration and show that antichymotrypsin and chloromethylketones have differing modes of action. This opens the possibility for the rational design of anti-inflammatory agents targeted at neutrophil membrane enzymes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CTSG protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cathepsin B, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cathepsin G, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cathepsins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chymotrypsin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/N-Formylmethionine..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oligopeptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pancreatic Elastase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Serine Endopeptidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trypsin Inhibitors
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
270
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
23437-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Cathepsin B, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Cathepsin G, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Cathepsins, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Cell Polarity, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Chemotaxis, Leukocyte, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Chymotrypsin, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Neutrophils, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Oligopeptides, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Pancreatic Elastase, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:7559504-Trypsin Inhibitors
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
The control of neutrophil chemotaxis by inhibitors of cathepsin G and chymotrypsin.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't