Pancreatic stone protein (lithostathine), a physiologically relevant pancreatic calcium carbonate crystal inhibitor?

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
D BimmlerT W Frick

Abstract

Apart from digestive enzymes, pancreatic juice contains several proteins that are not directly involved in digestion. One of these, lithostathine, has been reported to exhibit calcite crystal inhibitor activity in vitro. As pancreatic juice is supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate, it was hypothesized that lithostathine stabilizes pancreatic juice. Lithostathine is cleaved by trace amounts of trypsin, resulting in a C-terminal polypeptide and an N-terminal undecapeptide, which has been identified as the active site of lithostathine regarding crystal inhibition. We produced rat lithostathine in a baculovirus expression system. In order to test its functional activity, the protein was purified using a nondenaturing multi-step procedure. In the low micromolar range, recombinant rat lithostathine in vitro exhibited calcite crystal inhibitor activity, confirming earlier reports. Limited tryptic proteolysis of recombinant lithostathine was performed, and the two cleavage products were separated; the C-terminal polypeptide was precipitated by centrifugation, and the N-terminal undecapeptide was purified by high performance liquid chromatography. Only the C-terminal peptide displayed measurable calcite crystal inhibitory act...Continue Reading

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