PMID: 7536762Feb 1, 1995Paper

Localization of active and inactive elastase, alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor, and alpha-2-macroglobulin in human gingiva

Journal of Dental Research
C N KennettB M Eley

Abstract

Biochemically, there is usually much less elastase activity in gingival tissue than in crevicular fluid. The tissue distributions of active and inactive elastase and the endogenous inhibitors alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha 1PI) and alpha-2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) were therefore compared. Inflamed tissue was obtained from chronic periodontitis patients, and cryostat sections were incubated with the histochemical elastase substrate MeOSuc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Val-MNA. Adjacent sections were examined immunocytochemically with antibodies to neutrophil elastase, alpha 1PI, alpha 2M, and leukocyte differentiation antigens. Antigenic elastase was widely distributed in CD15-positive granulocytes in both the epithelium and lamina propria as well as in granulomatous tissue from infrabony defects. However, there was very limited histochemical staining of these cells, and biochemical activity against the equivalent substrate MeOSuc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Val-AFC could be extracted only from sections with such staining. The pH optimum and effector response of the activity in the extracts were, nevertheless, consistent with those of leukocyte elastase. The large difference between the total elastase content of the tissue, as determined immunocytochemicall...Continue Reading

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