EPI-hNE4, a proteolysis-resistant inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase and potential anti-inflammatory drug for treating cystic fibrosis

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Sylvie AttucciFrancis Gauthier

Abstract

EPI-hNE4 (depelstat) is a potent inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase derived from human inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor and designed to control the excess proteolytic activity in the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients. We analyzed its resistance to the proteolysis it is likely to encounter at inflammatory sites in vivo. EPI-hNE4 resisted hydrolysis by neutrophil matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) and serine proteases that are released from activated neutrophils in inflammatory lung secretions, including MMP-8 and MMP-9, and the elastase-related protease 3 and cathepsin G. It also resisted degradation by epithelial lung cell MMP-7 but was broken down by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa metalloelastase pseudolysin, when used in a purified system, but not when this protease competed with equimolar amounts of neutrophil elastase. We also investigated the inhibitory properties of EPI-hNE4 at the surface of purified blood neutrophils and in the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients where neutrophil elastase is in both a soluble and a gel phase. The elastase at the neutrophil surface was fully inhibited by EPI-hNE4 and formed soluble complexes. The elastase in cystic fibrosis sputum supernatants was inhibited by stoichiometric amounts of EPI-hNE4...Continue Reading

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