Serine proteases in rodent hippocampus
Davies, Ben J. and Pickard, Benjamin S. and Steel, Muriel and Morris, Richard G. M. and Lathe, Richard (1998) Serine proteases in rodent hippocampus. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273. pp. 23004-23011. ISSN 1083-351X (https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.273.36.23004)
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Brain serine proteases are implicated in developmental processes, synaptic plasticity, and in disorders including Alzheimer's disease. The spectrum of the major enzymes expressed in brain has not been established previously. We now present a systematic study of the serine proteases expressed in adult rat and mouse hippocampus. Using a combination of techniques including polymerase chain reaction amplification and Northern blotting we show that tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) is the major species represented. Unexpectedly, the next most abundant species were RNK-Met-1, a lymphocyte protease not reported previously in brain, and two new family members, BSP1 (brain serine protease 1) and BSP2. We report full-length sequences of the two new proteases; homologies indicate that these are of tryptic specificity. Although BSP2 is expressed in several brain regions, BSP1 expression is strikingly restricted to hippocampus. Other enzymes represented, but at lower levels, included elastase IV, proteinase 3, complement C2, chymotrypsin B, chymotrypsin-like protein, and Hageman factor. Although thrombin and urokinase-type plasminogen activator were not detected in the primary screen, low level expression was confirmed using specific polymerase chain reaction primers. In contrast, and despite robust expression of t-PA, the usual t-PA substrate plasminogen was not expressed at detectable levels.
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Item type: Article ID code: 52467 Dates: DateEvent4 September 1998PublishedSubjects: Medicine > Therapeutics. Pharmacology Department: Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 09 Apr 2015 11:45 Last modified: 25 Apr 2024 05:05 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/52467