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Query: EC:3.4.21.4 (trypsin)
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Duodenal aspirates were obtained before, during, and after stimulation with secretin-cholecystokinin in 26 patients whose pancreatic function was classified as normal, moderately reduced, or severely reduced. The activities of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and 5'-nucleotidase (5NT) in the aggregated duodenal aspirate collected 10-40 min after stimulation showed marked overlap between the functional groups and lacked diagnostic value. For all three enzymes, the peak response occurred later in the severely impaired group than in those with normal pancreatic function. The three enzymes showed significant positive correlations with each other, and were negatively correlated with the output of trypsin and chymotrypsin and, in contrast with these proteolytic enzymes which were reduced in pancreatic disease, GGT, ALP, and 5NT all tended to increase with pancreatic disease. Contrary to a previous report, GGT did not serve as a useful index of pancreatic cancer in this study.
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PMID:Activities of gamma-glutamyl transferase, 5'-nucleotidase and alkaline phosphatase in human duodenal aspirate. 287 69

A rat hepatocyte cell line was cultured in Higuchi's medium with fetal calf serum and insulin and labeled with 35SO2/4-. The cells were treated with a number of ligands to displace the heparan 35SO4 proteoglycan (HSPG) from the pericellular matrix. Maximum release was obtained with D-mannose-6-PO4 (50 mM), D-glucose-6-PO4 (50 mM), myo-inositol-2-PO4 (2-5 mM), myo-inositol hexaphosphate (2-5 mM), and DL-myo-inositol-1-PO4 (1-2 mM). D-myo-Inositol-1,3,4-(PO4)3 (1 mM) and L-myo-inositol-1-PO4 (2 mM) were intermediate in their ability to release the cell surface HSPG, whereas heparin (2 mg/ml), yeast phosphomannan (4 mg/ml), D-xylose-1-PO4 (50 mM), D-glucose-6-SO4 (50 mM), and myo-inositol hexasulfate (5 mM) were ineffective. When 35SO2/4- was added to cell cultures, the total cell surface HSPG increased linearly, but the percentage of the total cell surface [35SO4]HSPG that was released by myo-inositol-PO4 increased with time during the labeling period, reaching a maximum of 65% after 5 h. When cells were labeled for 12 h without insulin in the medium, the maximum amount of cell surface HSPG that was released by myo-inositol-PO4 was reduced to 30%. However, when cells labeled in the absence of insulin were treated with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and then myo-inositol-PO4, the release of the cell surface [35SO4]HSPG was increased to 73%. When the [35SO4]HSPG that was released from the cell surface by treatment with myo-inositol-PO4 was added to cultures of unlabeled hepatocytes, it was taken up very rapidly and a portion of the internalized HSPG was converted to free heparan SO4 chains which appeared in the nucleus. Uptake was Ca2+- and Mg2+-independent. The amount of [35SO4]HSPG taken up was markedly reduced when the myo-inositol-PO4-releasable [35SO4]HSPG was pretreated with trypsin, thermolysin, alkaline borohydride, or alkaline phosphatase. When the cells were grown in inositol-deficient medium or in the presence of myo-inositol-PO4, the amount of heparan SO4 found in the nucleus was markedly reduced, and the cells no longer exhibited contact inhibition. These effects of myo-inositol deficiency on the growth and nuclear heparan SO4 were accentuated by addition of LiCl to the cultures to prevent phosphatidylinositol synthesis from the endogenous myo-inositol-PO4.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Involvement of phosphatidylinositol and insulin in the coordinate regulation of proteoheparan sulfate metabolism and hepatocyte growth. 295 71

This study identifies the in vitro differences (markers) between virulent and attenuated transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) viruses. Exposure of virulent Miller strain and attenuated Purdue strain TGE viruses to a spectrum of acidities indicated that the Miller strain was more stable at pH 2. Acidities at or above pH 3 did not reduce viral infectivity of either strain. When virulent and attenuated viruses were exposed to gastric fluids of either fed or fasted swine, there was a similar degree of sensitivity. Carboxypeptidase B, alpha-amylase, and alkaline phosphatase present in porcine small intestinal fluids did not cause a significant difference in sensitivity between virulent and attenuated virus isolates. The digestive enzymes: trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, pancreatin, peptidase, and carboxypeptidase A did not (or only slightly) inactivate virulent Miller strain TGE virus, but greatly reduced infectivity of attenuated viruses (Purdue strain and TGE vaccine virus isolates). The attenuated strains were significantly more sensitive to small intestinal fluids from both fasted and fed adult swine. Differential sensitivities between virulent and attenuated TGE viruses to digestive fluids from stomach and small intestine further substantiate the notion of differential susceptibility to small intestinal proteases as a correlate of viral virulence.
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PMID:Enzymatic and acidic sensitivity profiles of selected virulent and attenuated transmissible gastroenteritis viruses of swine. 298 96

F344 male rats were given 90 ppm diethylnitrosamine in their drinking water ad libitum in two cycles. Livers containing neoplastic nodules, hepatomas, and no sarcomas in the sections sampled were digested in parallel with 0.05% collagenase, 0.1% Pronase, or 0.25% trypsin. Cells were transplanted into 9- to 19-day-old F344 rats. Despite the absence of sarcomas in the sections examined microscopically from each such liver before digestion and the presence of multiple hepatomas in all sections examined, vascular sarcomas, probably angiosarcomas, were observed in a large proportion of animals injected with the suspensions of cells; hepatomas were not observed in these animals. Morphology by light microscopy, immunohistochemical demonstration of factor VIII, histochemical demonstration of alkaline phosphatase, and the presence of Weibel-Palade bodies strongly suggest that these tumors are angiosarcomas. Similar tumors developed from cells obtained in parallel with the aid of Pronase, collagenase, or trypsin. Cell suspensions obtained with Pronase yielded tumors with the shortest latent period between the injection of cells and the death of one-half of the transplant recipients. The procedure that we used provides a consistent method for the production of transplantable sarcomas. The absence of sarcomas in the single sections taken from donor livers and multiple sections of similar livers not used for transplantation suggests that transplantability of these sarcoma cells is acquired very early in this neoplasm.
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PMID:Vascular sarcomas (probably angiosarcomas) transplanted from suspensions of liver cells from diethylnitrosamine-treated rats. 299 44

Extraction of rat kidney cytosol with 10% charcoal at 4 C inactivated specific T3 binding. The decreased T3 binding in extracted cytosol could be restored by addition of boiled kidney cytosol. Three different factors (a, b, and c) which could increase T3 binding were identified by Sephadex G-50 column chromatography of boiled cytosol. Two factors (b and c) were eluted as relatively small molecules. Factor a was present in small amounts. Factor c was neutralized by incubation with EDTA, but factor b was not. Factor b was not destroyed by trypsin, protease, DNase, or RNase, but was destroyed by alkaline phosphatase. Factor b was destroyed by incubation with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH)-dependent glutathione reductase in the presence of oxidized glutathione. Although T3 binding to charcoal-extracted cytosol protein was not influenced by reduced glutathione or dithiothreitol, it was markedly increased by NADPH. Maximal activation induced by 50 microM NADPH was not further increased by further addition of endogenous factor b. The elution position of NADPH in gel chromatography corresponded to the elution position of factor b. Factor b or NADPH increased maximal binding capacity without changes in affinity constant. These observations suggest that T3-binding protein in cytosol is present in inactive and active forms and that the active form is generated by NADPH, which is present as one of the activators in cytosol. The effect of these cytosolic T3-binding proteins on nuclear T3 binding in vitro was also studied. In the absence of cytosolic T3-binding protein, [125I]T3 binding to nuclear receptor was decreased by unlabeled T3 in a concentration-dependent manner. In the presence of inactive form of cytosolic T3-binding protein, nuclear [125I]T3 binding was slightly diminished. In the presence of NADPH and cytosolic T3-binding protein, however, the amount of [125I]T3 bound to nuclei markedly decreased, which was associated with an increase of cytosolic [125I]T3 binding. NADPH alone did not influence nuclear T3 binding. These results suggest that T3 binding to nuclear receptor is regulated by an active form of cytosolic T3-binding protein in vitro.
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PMID:Active and inactive forms of 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3)-binding protein in rat kidney cytosol: possible role of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate in activation of T3 binding. 301 55

5'-Nucleotidase activity in Ehrlich ascites tumour cells was undetectable. The cell homogenate, when mixed with adult mouse liver homogenate, inhibited the 5'-nucleotidase activity of the latter, without affecting its p-nitrophenyl phosphate-hydrolysing activity. The inhibitor activity was enriched (6.8-fold) in a membrane fraction which was enriched in (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (14-fold) and alkaline phosphatase (8-fold). 5'-Nucleotidase activity in this membrane fraction could be detected only after separating the inhibitor activity from the enzyme on Sephadex G-50. The inhibitor activity was decreased by 27% when heat-treated, 33% when treated with 6 M urea and was almost completely lost when treated with trypsin. It was dialysable from a tubing with a molecular exclusion limit of 10,000, but was retained in a tubing with an exclusion limit of 3000. From these results we conclude that a small molecular weight protein inhibitor(s) of 5'-nucleotidase is present in the plasma membrane of Ehrlich ascites tumour cells. Also, the presence of such an inhibitor in the newborn mouse liver but not in the adult liver suggests that it may have some role in cellular ageing and cancer.
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PMID:Membrane-bound 5'-nucleotidase inhibitor in Ehrlich ascites tumour cells and newborn mouse liver. 302 Dec 33

Ectopic bone formation induced by the subcutaneous implantation of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) is very significantly reduced in older Fischer 344 rats. Cells originating from calvaria of 20-day-old embryo donors were introduced into cylinders of DBM sealed at the ends with a Millipore filter or collagen sponges prior to subcutaneous implantation. Cells within the chambers had access to vascular channels that could penetrate through the interstices of the DBM. After four weeks of implantation in 26-month-old rats, the cylinders were full of bone. This bone was assessed by histologic techniques, by calcium and bone gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (gla) protein (BGP) concentrations, and by alkaline phosphatase activity. Cylinders to which no cells were added produced no bone. Bone marrow cells enclosed in similar cylinders or injected weekly at the implantation site also enhanced new bone formation but to a much lesser extent. Embryonic muscle cells formed large amounts of cartilage and less bone. Fibroblasts were inactive in this system. Prior treatment of the DBM with trypsin inhibited the myoblast response but not that of calvaria cells.
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PMID:Ectopic bone formation is enhanced in senescent animals implanted with embryonic cells. 304 63

Digestion of the rat liver glucocorticoid receptor with chymotrypsin results in the generation of a 42-kDa fragment which contains the steroid-binding and DNA-binding domains and the antigenic site for the BuGR anti-glucocorticoid receptor monoclonal antibody, while digestion with trypsin generates a 15-kDa receptor fragment containing only the DNA-binding function and the BuGR epitope (Eisen, L.P., Reichman, M.E., Thompson, E.B., Gametchu, B., Harrison, R. W., and Eisen, H.J. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 11805-11810). In this paper, glucocorticoid receptor of mouse L cells that were grown in the presence of [32P]orthophosphate was digested with trypsin or chymotrypsin (either before or after immune purification with BuGR antibody) and analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, autoradiography, and Western blotting. The receptor is endogenously phosphorylated only on serine residues. Chymotrypsin digestion results in a 32P-labeled 42-kDa receptor fragment which contains steroid-binding, DNA-binding, and BuGR-reactive sites. Trypsin digestion generates a 27-kDa steroid-bound fragment (meroreceptor) which is not labeled with 32P and a 32P-labeled 15-kDa fragment which contains both the DNA-binding domain and the BuGR epitope. We have calculated that there are 4 times as many phosphate residues in the intact receptor than in the 42-kDa chymotrypsin fragment. From examination of 32P-labeled receptor fragments, we have deduced that one phosphate is located between amino acids 398 and 447, a region containing the BuGR epitope and about one-third of the DNA-binding domain, and the remaining three phosphates appear to be clustered just to the amino-terminal side of the BuGR epitope in a region defined by amino acids 313 to 369. Treatment of intact 32P-labeled receptor in cytosol with alkaline phosphatase removes these three phosphates, but it does not remove the phosphate from the DNA-binding-BuGR-reactive fragment and it does not affect the ability of the transformed receptor to bind to DNA-cellulose.
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PMID:Localization of phosphorylation sites with respect to the functional domains of the mouse L cell glucocorticoid receptor. 304 15

We constructed a gene coding for the 56-amino acid human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (PSTI), and ligated it on a plasmid downstream from the trp promoter and the signal peptide sequence of alkaline phosphatase. The resulting plasmid was transfected into a lipoprotein deletion mutant (Escherichia coli JE5505) and the plasmid-carrying cells were induced with 3-indoleacrylic acid. A considerable amount (50 micrograms/ml culture) of the mature PSTI protein was detected in the culture supernatant. The excreted PSTI was identical to the natural PSTI protein with respect to the trypsin-inhibiting activity, the N-terminal and the C-terminal amino acid sequences and the amino acid composition.
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PMID:Expression and excretion of human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor in lipoprotein-deletion mutant of Escherichia coli. 304 50

Human fetal lung homogenates contain an inactive form of renin which may be revealed by trypsin treatment. When activated, this form of renin has some biochemical similarities with fetal kidney renin: the pH optimum of fetal lung renin is approximately 6.5; it is bound by Affigel Blue affinity chromatography resin; and is inhibited by a monoclonal antibody (R-3-36-16) raised to human kidney renin. Inactive renin, partially-purified from both fetal kidney and lung, differs from this in that the renal form is of low-molecular weight (LMW, 45,000 daltons), whereas that from fetal lung is of high molecular weight (HMW, 58,000 daltons). Using a sensitive alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase (APAAP) procedure with a polyclonal anti-renin antibody (R-15), immunoreactive renin in fetal lung was found in vessels in mesenchyme between airways. The pattern of staining was distributed similarly to Factor VIII-related antigen, suggesting localization in endothelial cells.
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PMID:Renin in human fetal lung--a biochemical and immunohistochemical study. 305 97


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