scholarly journals Proteolytic Activity of Human Gastric Mucosa

1951 ◽  
Vol 53 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
Mitsuhisa Hayakawa
1978 ◽  
Vol 169 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
N B Roberts ◽  
W H Taylor

1. A non-pepsin proteinase, proteinase 2, was successfully isolated free from pepsinogen (by repetitive chromatography on DEAE- and CM-celluloses) from the gastric mucosa of a patient with a duodenal ulcer and the uninvaded mucosa of a patient with a gastric adenocarcinoma. 2. Proteinases 1a and 1b, found in gastric adenocarcinoma, were not found in the gastic mucosa of these patients. 3. Proteinase 2 was shown to have an asymmetrical broad pH-activity curve with a maximum over the pH range 3.0-3.7. 4. Proteolytic activity of proteinase 2 was inhibited by pepstatin; the concentration of pepstatin giving 50% inhibition is of the order of 3nm. 5. Inhibition of proteolytic activity by carbenoxolone and related triterpenoids indicated that at pH 4.0 proteinase 2 possesses structural characteristics relating it to the pepsins and at pH 7.4 to the pepsinogens. 6. The sites of cleavage of the B-chain of oxidized insulin for proteinase 2 at pH 1.7 and pH 3.5 were shown to be similar to those previously established for human pepsin 3 and for the cathepsin E of rabbit bone marrow. 7. The non-pepsin proteinase 2 (cathepsin) of human gastric mucosa has properties more similar to cathepsin E than to the cathepsins D.


Author(s):  
C.A.E. Lemmi ◽  
D. Booth ◽  
G.E. Adomian

In order to enrich populations of homogeneous cellular types we dissociated gastric mucosa by enzymatic techniques. In addition, we used SEM to monitor the progressive etching of the mucosa. Two enzymes were tested: collagenase III with minimum proteolytic activity and Pronase with broader proteolytic effects. The gastric mucosa was exposed to the effect of the enzymes using everted stomach preparations. In this way the digestive action occured progressively from the lumen of the stomach toward the base of the glands. This “etching” process could be monitored conveniently by SEM. After incubation for periods varying from 30 to 210 minutes the tissues were stretched on dental wax, fixed in 2 % glutaralheyde, post-fixed in osmium, dehydrated, critical point dryed and coated with gold. A model MSM-5 “Mini-SEM” was used for observation. Gentle uncurling of the preparation before coating with gold produced fractures which revealed the structure of the gastric glandsin more detail.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A81-A81
Author(s):  
B NEU ◽  
R RAD ◽  
M NEUHOFER ◽  
C TRAUTWEIN ◽  
M GERHARD ◽  
...  

1974 ◽  
Vol 249 (12) ◽  
pp. 3884-3889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayoshi Yamanaka ◽  
Yoriaki Tsubota ◽  
Motoaki Anai ◽  
Koji Ishimatsu ◽  
Makoto Okumura ◽  
...  

Gut ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1230-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
L L Thomsen ◽  
J B Gavin ◽  
C Tasman-Jones

1956 ◽  
Vol 187 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Vitale ◽  
Oscar M. Jankelson ◽  
Patricia Connors ◽  
D. Mark Hegsted ◽  
Norman Zamcheck

Effect of histamine on the activity of succinic oxidase and malic dehydrogenase was studied in guinea pig and human gastric mucosa. Human tissue was obtained through the surgical services of the Boston City Hospital. Control value for the succinic oxidase system of the proximal half of the guinea pig stomach was approximately 480 ( Qo2 (N) (µl O2/mg nitrogen/hr.)). After histamine, this value rose to 550 in 30 minutes with a simultaneous rise in titratable acidity of the stomach contents. Animals fasted for 72 hours had a Qo2 (N) of approximately 500 and after histamine a Qo2 (N) of 700 was observed. Spectrophotometric analysis of succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase activities, two of the major components of the succinic oxidase system, revealed that both components are increased following histamine administration. Malic dehydrogenase, however, was not affected by histamine treatment. Succinic dehydrogenase was demonstrated by histochemical localization and was concentrated below the superficial mucous layer where parietal cells were abundant. Succinic oxidase activity of human gastric mucosa was demonstrable only in those specimens containing abundant parietal cells. This study confirms the view that HCl production by parietal cells is associated with aerobic metabolism and is perhaps under enzymatic control. The study suggests that the succinic oxidase system may be involved in the production or secretion of HCl.


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