title: THE AUTODIGESTION HYPOTHESIS AND RECEPTOR CLEAVAGE IN DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION.
abstract: One of the key features of cardiovascular complications, such as hypertension or diabetes, is that they often appear at the same time in the same individual together with other forms of co-morbidities. While clinically a recognized phenomenon, no molecular mechanism for such co-morbidities has received universal acceptance. We propose a new hypothesis that provides a molecular basis for co-morbidities in hypertension due to unchecked proteolytic activity and receptor destruction. Testing of the hypothesis in the spontaneously hypertensive rat reveals an unchecked matrix metalloproteinase and serine protease activity in plasma and on several cardiovascular and parenchymal cells. The elevated proteolytic activity causes extracellular cleavage of multiple receptor types, such that cleavage of one receptor type leads to loss of the function carried out by this receptor. Proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular domain of the β(2) adrenergic receptor in arteries and arterioles causes vasoconstriction and elevation of the central blood pressure while cleavage of the extracellular domain of the insulin receptor leads to insulin resistance and lack of transmembrane glucose transport. A diverse set of cell dysfunctions in the spontaneously hypertensive rat are accompanied by cleavage of the membrane receptors that are involved in these functions. Chronic inhibition of the unchecked protease activity in the spontaneously hypertensive rat serves to restore the extracellular receptor density and alleviates the corresponding cell dysfunctions. The mild unchecked proteolytic activity in the spontaneously hypertensive rat points towards a chronic autodigestion process as a contributor to the end organ injury encountered in this rat strain. The presence of various soluble receptors, which consist of extracellular fragments of membrane receptors, in the plasma of hypertensive and diabetic patients suggest that the autodigestion process may also be present in man.
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