Walter Halangk, Markus M. Lerch, Barbara Brandt-Nedelev, Wera Roth, Manuel Ruthenbuerger, Thomas Reinheckel, Wolfram Domschke, Hans Lippert, Christoph Peters, Jan Deussing
J Clin Invest.
2000;
106(6):773–781
doi:10.1172/JCI9411
This article Copyright © 2000, The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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utodigestion of the pancreas by its own prematurely activated digestive proteases is thought to be an important event in the onset of acute pancreatitis. The mechanism responsible for the intrapancreatic activation of digestive zymogens is unknown, but a recent hypothesis predicts that a redistribution of lysosomal cathepsin B (CTSB) into a zymogen-containing subcellular compartment triggers this event. To test this hypothesis, we used CTSB-deficient mice in which the ctsb gene had been deleted by targeted disruption. After induction of experimental secretagogue–induced pancreatitis, the trypsin activity in the pancreas of ctsb–/– animals was more than 80% lower than in ctsb+/+ animals. Pancreatic damage as indicated by serum activities of amylase and lipase, or by the extent of acinar tissue necrosis, was 50% lower in ctsb–/– animals. These experiments provide the first conclusive evidence to our knowledge that cathepsin B plays a role in intrapancreatic trypsinogen activation and the onset of acute pancreatitis.
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