Inhibition by elastase inhibitors of the formyl met leu phe‐induced chemotaxis of rat polymorphonuclear leukocytes
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Cell Biochemistry and Function
- Vol. 5 (2) , 113-122
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cbf.290050206
Abstract
Rat leukocyte elastase has been purified successively by AH-Sepharose Kappa-elastin affinity chromatography and by ion exchange chromatography on a carboxymethyl Sephadex resin. It has great similarities with human leukocyte elastase in its molecular weight, substrate specificity and inhibitory profile. The effect of rat leukocyte elastase inhibitors in influencing the chemotactic response of rat PMN to fMetLeuPhe has been compared to that of other proteinase inhibitors. The results indicated that oleoyl (Ala)2ProValCH2Cl, a specific inhibitor of human and rat leukocyte elastases and Eglin C, which also inhibits human and rat cathepsin G, are among the powerful inhibitors of rat PMN chemotaxis induced by the formyl oligopeptide. This suggests that these neutral proteinases, in addition to their known participation in connective tissue catabolism, could play a role in PMN locomotion and chemotaxis.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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