title: Partial purification of plasma and tissue kallikreins in psoriatic epidermis.
abstract: Human psoriatic scale extracts produced kinins from heated plasma (11.3 +/- 5.5 ng kinin/mg protein) and from purified low molecular weight (LMW) bovine kininogen (4.4 +/- 1.7 ng/mg). Sephacryl S-200 gel filtration of the extracts showed three peaks of kininogenase activity with Mr values of 90,000 (K-I), 65,000 (K-II), and 35,000 (K-III). Upon DEAE-Sepharose chromatography of the Sephacryl peaks, K-I activity was found in the nonadsorbed fraction and formed kinins only from heated plasma. Peak K-II activity was resolved into two peaks, K-IIa (in the nonadsorbed fraction), which formed kinins only from heated plasma, and K-IIb (in the adsorbed fraction), which formed kinins from both heated plasma and LMW bovine kininogen. K-III kininogenase activity appeared at the same position as K-IIb and also formed kinins from both substrates. Kininogenases K-I and K-IIa had the same Km value (0.3 mM) with Pro-Phe-Arg-p-nitroanilide(pNA), similar to that found with human plasma kallikrein. The Km value of K-IIb with Val-Leu-Arg-pNA (0.8 mM) was like that found for human salivary kallikrein, whereas K-III had a low affinity for this substrate. Like plasma kallikrein, K-I and K-IIa were inhibited by soybean trypsin inhibitor, but only weakly by aprotinin. In addition the kininogenase activity of both K-I and K-IIa was neutralized by adding antihuman prekallikrein immunoglobulin G (IgG). In contrast, K-IIb and K-III were strongly inhibited by aprotinin but not by soybean trypsin inhibitor, consistent with their being tissue kallikreins. It was confirmed that K-IIb and K-III shares antigenic determinant of urinary kallikrein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hibino
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Izaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Izaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004817:Epidermis / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007610:Kallikreins / Q000097:blood / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D007704:Kininogens / Q000032:analysis; D007705:Kinins / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000097:blood* / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D007704:Kininogens; D007705:Kinins; D007610:Kallikreins