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Proteases and proteinase inhibitors in experimental glucocorticosteroid myopathy
Authors:I Sohár  I Nagy  L Heiner  Z Kovács  F Guba
Abstract:The unknown enzymatic mechanism of enhanced protein breakdown in steroid myopathy was studied in functionally and biochemically different muscles of rabbits treated with dexamethasone for three weeks. After glucocorticoid administration the fast-twitch glycolytic semimembraneous muscle of treated animals was atrophied, whereas the weight of the slow-twitch oxidative soleus muscle was not altered. The specific activity of the lysosomal endo- and exopeptidases (cathepsin D, E, B and L, lysosomal carboxypeptidase A and dipeptidylpeptidase I) was increased about 2-fold in the atrophied white muscle. The activity of the cytosol enzyme Ca++-activated neutral proteinase was also elevated, whereas that of the other cytosol endopeptidase, chymotrypsin-like enzyme, was unaltered. The level of alanine aminopeptidase was only slightly increased. On the other hand, there were no unequivocal changes in protease activity in the soleus muscle. These findings are in agreement with the known differences in glucocorticoid-sensitivity of the various muscles. Our results suggest that the lysosomal proteolytic system and the Ca++-activated neutral proteinase may play an important role in the glucocorticoid-induced intracellular protein catabolism in muscle. The inhibitor capacities of cathepsin B and trypsin detectable in muscle cytosol were not altered after steroid treatment. Consequently, the increase in cathepsin B activity was not due to the loss of its inhibitor.
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