Interactions in vitro and in vivo between Human and Porcine Cationic Pancreatic Elastase and Plasma Protease Inhibitors

Autor: Hans-Olof Håkansson, Kjell Ohlsson
Rok vydání: 1988
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Zdroj: Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler. 369:309-316
ISSN: 0177-3593
Popis: Trace amounts of porcine pancreatic elastase mixed with porcine serum, or injected intravenously into the pig, were found to be bound mainly to alpha 1- and alpha 2-macroglobulin (90%). Alpha 1-macroglobulin approached saturation with elastase before significant binding to alpha 2-macroglobulin was demonstrable. Human pancreatic cationic elastase showed in human serum preferential binding to alpha 2-macroglobulin, but the elastase was also bound by alpha 1-protease inhibitor and by alpha 1-antichymotrypsin. The porcine elastase-alpha 1 alpha 2-macroglobulin complexes injected intravenously or formed in vivo in the pig were rapidly eliminated from the blood stream following a first order reaction with t 1/2 = 8 min. Porcine alpha 1-protease-inhibitor-bound elastase disappeared considerably more slowly.
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