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In a series of experiments the influence of the trypsin inhibitors aprotinin (Trasylol) and TLCK (N-p-tosyl-L-lysin chloromethyl ketone) on the gelatinolytic activity of acrosin and motility of rabbit spermatozoa was tested. Ejaculated, highly motile spermatozoa were washed in Brackett-Medium. 12.5 to 1000 microns Aprotinin and 50 to 1000 micrograms TLCK, respectively, were added to samples of 1 ml sperm suspension: the specimens were incubated at 37 degrees C. Increasing aprotinin concentrations reduced the gelatinolytic activity of acrosin and the sperm incubation at a concentration of 1000 micrograms Aprotinin/ml sperm. Spermatozoa in all TLCK specimens were entirely immotile 1.5 hours after incubation. The gelatinolytic activity of acrosin was obviously not inhibited at any TLCK concentration. These results suggest that, under these experimental conditions, aprotinin and TLCK may impair primarily the motility spermatozoa.
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PMID:[The effect of the trypsin inhibitor aprotinin (Trasylol) and TLCK on the gelatinolytic activity of acrosin and the motility of rabbit sperm in vitro]. 247 24

Kininogen sequence analogs containing amino acid residues around the Arg-Ser cleavage site of bovine kininogens were prepared with bulky aliphatic residues in P3 position. KKI-7 (containing a cyclohexylacetyl group) and KKI-8 (containing an adamantaneacetyl group) both inhibited human urinary kallikrein (HUK) with Ki of 4 microM. These inhibitors were 40 times more potent than the corresponding peptide containing the naturally occurring Pro at P3 and were one-seventh as susceptible to hydrolysis by HUK. Rat submaxillary kallikrein (RSK) and porcine pancreatic kallikrein (PPK) were also inhibited by these analogs. Both analogs were poor inhibitors of human plasma kallikrein, while their capacity to inhibit bovine trypsin was 1/3 and 1/17, respectively, that to inhibit HUK. In a rat blood flow study, KKI-7 infusion depressed the response to injected RSK. The response gradually returned toward normal 30 to 60 min after the infusion was terminated. Blood flow increase of dog jejunal artery in response to infused PPK was blunted by the simultaneous local infusion of Trasylol, KKI-7, or KKI-8, whereas these infusions did not alter the response to infused bradykinin. The vehicle infusion did not attenuate the response either to PPK or bradykinin. These analogs appear to have greater specificity and stability than those previously developed and to be appropriate for the in vivo inhibition of glandular kallikreins.
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PMID:In vivo inhibition of tissue kallikreins by kininogen sequence analogue peptides. 248 44

The trypsin inhibitors aprotinin (Trasylol) and TLCK (N alpha-p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl ketone) were administered continuously into the lumen of the cervix uteri of sexually mature rabbits by means of surgically implanted osmotic minipumps. The doses were inseminated six days after implantation of the pumps, then sacrificed two to six hours after insemination and their reproductive tracts were prepared for gelatin substrate film test and scanning electron microscopy. At a pumping rate of 50 to 100 micrograms aprotinin/h neither gelatinolytic activity of acrosin nor sperm transport were visibly inhibited. TLCK, at a pumping rate of 10 micrograms/h, did not influence the proteolytic activity of acrosin; however it seemed, presumably for its toxicity, to destroy the fine structure of epithelial surfaces in the vagino-cervical region and to impair sperm transport. These results suggest, that acrosin, under these experimental conditions, is not inhibited by aprotinin and TLCK in vivo and may play no immediate role in sperm transport in the female reproductive tract.
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PMID:[The effect of trypsin inhibitors aprotinin (Trasylol) and TLCK administered locally by osmotic pumps on the gelatinolytic activity of acrosin and the transport of sperm cells in the female reproductive tract of rabbits]. 248 90

The actions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3] are thought to be mediated through receptor proteins which have been described in a variety of avian and mammalian tissues, but not in the liver. To determine if a binding protein for 1,25-(OH)2D3 is present in this tissue, rat liver was homogenized in a low ionic strength buffer containing 10 mM Tris (pH 7.4), 2.2 m sucrose, 3 mM calcium chloride, 0.2% Triton X-100, and 0.04% Trasylol (sucrose buffer) and centrifuged over a 10-ml cushion of sucrose buffer at 61,000 x g for 80 min at 4 C. The resultant nuclear pellet was extracted in a 26 mM Tris (pH 7.4) buffer containing 0.3 M potassium chloride, 5 mM dithiothreitol, 1 mM EDTA, and 10 mM sodium molybdate. Saturable 1,25-(OH)2D3 binding was identified in high salt extracts of rat liver nuclei and was eliminated by treatment with trypsin. This liver binding protein cosediments on high salt 5-20% sucrose density gradients with the 1,25-(OH)2D3 receptor protein from intestine and is distinct from the 6.OS tissue binding protein for 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. Perfusion of rat liver with PBS to remove receptor-positive blood cells before isolation of the nuclei did not change 1,25-(OH)2D3 binding. The nuclear protein bound 1,25-(OH)2D3 more avidly than either 24,25-(OH)2 D3 or 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. Saturation analysis of 1,25-(OH)2D3 binding revealed an apparent equilibrium dissociation constant of 20.6 +/- 2.2 pM (mean +/- SEM) at 4 C and a maximum binding capacity of 49.0 +/- 14.6 fmol/extract from 1.0 mg DNA. The 1,25-(OH)2D3-binding binding protein was present in liver nuclei isolated from mice, rabbits, and chicks and in nuclei isolated from cultured rat hepatocytes. The ligand specificity, sedimentation coefficient, limited binding capacity, trypsin sensitivity, and nuclear location of the hepatic 1,25-(OH)2D3-binding protein are similar to those of 1,25-(OH)2D3 receptors described in other tissues and suggest that the liver may be a target organ for [1,25-(OH)2D3] action.
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PMID:A 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor-like protein in mammalian and avian liver nuclei. 283 67

Bovine vitreous body and aorta contain extractable leukocyte elastase inhibitors, which were purified by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on agarose-pancreatic elastase. The purified inhibitor preparation from aorta was resolved by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into a main band migrating slightly faster than commercial Trasylol and a more weakly stained band migrating close to chymotrypsinogen. The purified inhibitor preparation from both sources inhibited, in a competitive fashion, purified human leukocyte elastase and was ineffective against bovine trypsin and leukocyte cathepsin G or collagenase. These inhibitors from vitreous body and aorta were distinguishable by several criteria from serum inhibitors.
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PMID:Isolation and partial characterization of neutrophil elastase inhibitors from bovine vitreous and aorta. 337 Oct 70

Vasoactive peptides contain a high proportion of proline residues which make them resistant to hydrolysis by many peptidases. However, post proline cleaving enzyme (PPCE; EC 3.4.21.26), a proline specific endopeptidase which specifically hydrolyzes internal peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of proline residues, has been shown to inactivate numerous vasoactive peptides including angiotensins, kinins, substance P, vasopressin and oxytocin. In order to determine whether PPCE could be involved in vascular metabolism of vasoactive peptides, we carried out localization and characterization studies of PPCE-like activity in hog aorta and mesenteric artery. PPCE was assayed fluorometrically at pH 7.0 using the specific PPCE substrate CBZ-Gly-Pro-4-methyl-coumarinylamide. The subcellular distribution of vascular PPCE was essentially the same as that of the cytosolic marker enzyme lactic dehydrogenase (LDH). PPCE was enriched six-fold in the cytosolic fraction (11.4 +/- 2.7 units/mg) and unlike the plasma membrane-bound proline specific exopeptidase dipeptidyl-(amino)peptidase IV (DAP IV; EC 3.4.14.5), little or no activity could be detected in the microsomal or plasma membrane fractions. Similar to PPCE characterized from other sites, vascular PPCE was stabilized and activated by dithiothreitol and EDTA, and inhibited by DFP, p-chloromercuriphenyl sulfonic acid, L-1-tosylamido-2-phenylethylchloromethyl ketone, Cu++, Ca++, and Zn++. Vascular PPCE was unaffected by inhibitors of trypsin and kallikrein (Aprotinin, ABTI), aminopeptidase M (bestatin, amastatin), neutral endopeptidase (phosphoramidon), angiotensin I converting enzyme (captopril) or carboxypeptidase N (MERGETPA). These data demonstrate that PPCE is present in vascular endothelium and/or smooth muscle.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Vascular, post proline cleaving enzyme: metabolism of vasoactive peptides. 354 18

Cationic trypsin was isolated and purified from the pancreas of the ostrich (Struthio camelus) by affinity chromatography on a Trasylol-Sepharose column. External activation of trypsinogen was required before trypsin could be isolated. The final preparation was homogeneous by SDS-PAGE and by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugation studies, resulting in Mr values of 24,547 and 22,091, respectively. The Mmin value obtained from amino acid analysis was 22,450. A mean sedimentation coefficient of 2S was obtained by sedimentation velocity centrifugation. Results obtained from N-terminal and amino acid analyses were similar to those from trypsins of other species. The effects of pH, temperature and inhibitors (LBTI, KBPTI and PMSF) on the tryptic activity were examined. The effect of calcium ions and enzyme concentration on the rate of self-digestion of ostrich trypsin was also investigated.
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PMID:The isolation and partial characterization of trypsin from the pancreas of the ostrich Struthio camelus. 358 98

The daily output of trypsin and chymotrypsin was measured in the stools of four patients with an established ileostomy under controlled dietary and metabolic conditions for a control period of four days. Trasylol, given intravenously in a dose of 500,000 units over eight hours, failed to affect the output of enzymes over the next two days, or to alter the distribution of bound and soluble enzymes.
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PMID:Failure of trasylol to reduce intestinal content of trypsin and chymotrypsin in man. 531 15

Examination of the peritoneal exudates of 12 patients with acute pancreatitis revealed high activities of pancreatic lipase and amylase. The immunologic levels of the plasma-derived inhibitors alpha 1-antitrypsin, antithrombin III and alpha 2-macroglobulin in the peritoneal exudates were not markedly different from those of the plasma. However, the inhibitory capacity of alpha 2-macroglobulin, the main inhibitor of human pancreatic trypsin in the exudate, was almost completely depleted when measured by an enzymatic method. Furthermore, spontaneous fibrinolysis occurred in 6 out of 13 exudates applied to plasminogen-free fibrin plates, indicating the presence of free proteinase. This fibrinolytic activity might be inhibited by exogenous alpha 2-macroglobulin or aprotinin (Trasylol, Bayer AG).
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PMID:Proteinases and inhibitors in plasma and peritoneal exudate in acute pancreatitis. 608 67

The effect of gabexate mesilate (FOY) was studied in vitro in human and canine serum upon the addition of trypsin, and in vivo in dogs during intravenous trypsin infusion. The effect of FOY was compared with the effect of aprotinin. FOY did not show any protection against trypsin-induced activation of the complement and kinin systems in vitro or in vivo, while aprotinin did. All dogs exhibited signs of circulatory shock together with a consumption of the two main proteinase inhibitors, alpha-macroglobulin and alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor, when intravenous infusions of FOY and trypsin were performed simultaneously. However, all dogs survived without signs of shock if aprotinin was given instead of FOY. The ineffectiveness of FOY in serum is explained by the complete dissociation of FOY trypsin complexes together with a rapid degradation of FOY to inactive metabolites. Although FOY is an effective proteinase inhibitor in defined buffer systems in vitro, the results of the present study indicate that it is not an effective proteinase inhibitor in vivo. Aprotinin protects against trypsin-induced activation reactions, although much higher concentrations are needed in human than in canine serum.
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PMID:Gabexate mesilate (FOY) and aprotinin. A comparative study of the effects on trypsin-induced activation of the kinin and complement systems in vivo and in vitro. 608 37


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