PMID: 9159148May 27, 1997Paper

Elevated levels of cysteine protease activity in saliva and salivary glands of the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse model for Sjögren syndrome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
C P RobinsonM G Humphreys-Beher

Abstract

Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice develop an anti-exocrine gland pathology similar to human Sjögren syndrome. Recently, we demonstrated that NOD-scid mice develop severe loss of submandibular acinar cells with concomitant appearance of abnormal isoforms of salivary proteins suggesting de novo enzymatic cleavage. Because these changes may indicate activation of apoptotic proteases, we examined saliva and salivary tissue for cysteine protease activity. Cysteine protease activities were elevated in saliva and gland lysates from 20-week-old NOD and NOD-scid mice as compared with age- and sex-matched BALB/c or 8-week-old NOD mice. This activity appeared in the submandibular glands, but not in the parotid glands. Western blot analyses using antibodies directed against specific apoptotic proteases (interleukin 1beta converting enzyme, Nedd-2, and Apopain/CPP 32) confirmed these findings. Submandibular glands from NOD-scid mice exhibited the greatest increase in proteolytic activity, indicating that infiltrating leukocytes are not responsible for these changes. Western blot analyses also failed to reveal changes in the levels of cystatins (saliva proteins that inhibit protease activity). Thus, increased cysteine protease activity appears to...Continue Reading

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