Chymotrypsin B cached in rat liver lysosomes and involved in apoptotic regulation through a mitochondrial pathway

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Qi MiaoFuyu Yang

Abstract

Lysosomes can trigger the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway by releasing proteases. Here we report that a 25-kDa protein purified from rat liver lysosomes possesses a long standing potent Bid cleavage activity at neutral pH, and the truncated Bid can in turn induce rapid mitochondrial release of cytochrome c. This protease was revealed as chymotrypsin B by biochemical and mass spectrometric analysis. Although it was long recognized as a digestive protease exclusively secreted by the exocrine pancreas, our data support that it also expresses and intracellularly resides in rat liver lysosomes. Translocation of lysosomal chymotrypsin B into cytosol was triggered by apoptotic stimuli such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and intracellular delivery of chymotrypsin B protein induced apoptotic cell death with a potency comparable with cathepsin B, suggestive of a lysosomal-mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis regulated by chymotrypsin B following its release. Noteworthily, either knockdown of chymotrypsin B expression by RNA interference or pretreatment with chymotrypsin B inhibitor N-p-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone significantly reduced tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induce apoptosis. These results demonstrate for the first time ...Continue Reading

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