Cathepsin B is in humans encoded by the CTSBgene.[1][2] Cathepsin B belongs to a family of lysosomalcysteineproteases and plays an important role in intracellular proteolysis.[3] Upregulation of cathepsin B is found in premalignant lesions and various pathological conditions, as well as cancers.[4][5][6][7]
CTSB gene is located at chromosome 8p22, consisting of 13 exons.The promoter of CTSB gene contains a GC-rich region including many SP1 sites, which is similar to housekeeping gene.[8] At least five transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene.[9]
Protein
Cathepsin B is synthesized on the rough endoplasmic reticulum as a preproenzyme of 339 amino acid with a signal peptide of 17 amino acids.[10][11] Procathepsin B of 43/46 kDa is then transported to the Golgi apparatus and cathepsin B is formed. Mature cathepsin B is composed of a heavy chain of 25-26 kDa and a light chain of 5kDa, which are linked by a dimer of disulfide.
Function
Cathepsin B may enhance the activity of other protease, including matrix metalloproteinase, urokinase (serine protease urokinase plasminogen activator), and cathepsin D,[12][13] and thus it has an essential position for in the proteolysis of extracellular matrix components, intercellular communication disruption, and reduced protease inhibitor expression.[7] It is also involved in autophagy and cannibalism, which is advantageous in tumor malignancy and is possibly involved in specific immune resistance.[14]
Clinical significance
Cathepsin B has been proposed as a potentially effective biomarker for a variety of cancers.[12][15][16][17][18][19] Overexpression of cathepsin B is correlated with invasive and metastatic cancers.[20]
Cathepsin B is produced in muscle tissue during metabolism.[21] It is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier[22] and is associated with neurogenesis, specifically in the mouse dentate gyrus.
A wide array of diseases result in elevated levels of cathepsin B, which causes numerous pathological processes including cell death, inflammation, and production of toxic peptides. Focusing on neurological diseases, cathepsin B gene knockout studies in an epileptic rodent model have shown cathepsin B causes a significant amount of the apoptotic cell death that occurs as a result of inducing epilepsy.[23] Cathepsin B inhibitor treatment of rats in which a seizure was induced resulted in improved neurological scores, learning ability and much reduced neuronal cell death and pro-apoptotic cell death peptides.[24] Similarly, cathepsin B gene knockout and cathepsin B inhibitor treatment studies in traumatic brain injury mouse models have shown cathepsin B to be key to causing the resulting neuromuscular dysfunction, memory loss, neuronal cell death and increased production of pro-necrotic and pro-apoptotic cell death peptides.[25][26] In ischemic non-human primate and rodent models, cathepsin B inhibitor treatment prevented a significant loss of brain neurons, especially in the hippocampus.[27][28][29] In a streptococcus pneumoniaemeningitis rodent model, cathepsin B inhibitor treatment greatly improved the clinical course of the infection and reduced brain inflammation and inflammatory Interleukin-1β (IL1-β) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α).[30] In a transgenic Alzheimer's disease (AD) animal model expressing human amyloid precursor protein (APP) containing the wild-type beta-secretase site sequence found in most AD patients or in guinea pigs, which are a natural model of human wild-type APP processing, genetically deleting the cathepsin B gene or chemically inhibiting cathepsin B brain activity resulted in a significant improvement in the memory deficits that develop in such mice and reduces levels of neurotoxic full-length Abeta(1-40/42) and the particularly pernicious pyroglutamate Abeta(3-40/42), which are thought to cause the disease.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37] In a non-transgenic senescence-accelerated mouse strain, which also has APP containing the wild-type beta-secretase site sequence, treatment with bilobalide, which is an extract of Ginko biloba leaves, also lowered brain Abeta by inhibiting cathepsin B.[38] Moreover, siRNA silencing or chemically inhibiting cathepsin B in primary rodent hippocampal cells or bovine chromaffin cells, which have human wild-type beta-secretase activity, reduces secretion of Abeta by the regulated secretory pathway.[39][40]Mutations in the CTSB gene have been linked to tropical pancreatitis, a form of chronic pancreatitis.[41]
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↑Vigneswaran N, Zhao W, Dassanayake A, Muller S, Miller DM, Zacharias W (August 2000). "Variable expression of cathepsin B and D correlates with highly invasive and metastatic phenotype of oral cancer". Human Pathology. 31 (8): 931–7. doi:10.1053/hupa.2000.9035. PMID10987253.
↑Bao W, Fan Q, Luo X, Cheng WW, Wang YD, Li ZN, Chen XL, Wu D (August 2013). "Silencing of Cathepsin B suppresses the proliferation and invasion of endometrial cancer". Oncology Reports. 30 (2): 723–30. doi:10.3892/or.2013.2496. PMID23708264.
↑Yin M, Soikkeli J, Jahkola T, Virolainen S, Saksela O, Hölttä E (December 2012). "TGF-β signaling, activated stromal fibroblasts, and cysteine cathepsins B and L drive the invasive growth of human melanoma cells". The American Journal of Pathology. 181 (6): 2202–16. doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.08.027. PMID23063511.
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↑Houseweart MK, Pennacchio LA, Vilaythong A, Peters C, Noebels JL, Myers RM (September 2003). "Cathepsin B but not cathepsins L or S contributes to the pathogenesis of Unverricht-Lundborg progressive myoclonus epilepsy (EPM1)". Journal of Neurobiology. 56 (4): 315–27. doi:10.1002/neu.10253. PMID12918016.
↑Ni H, Ren SY, Zhang LL, Sun Q, Tian T, Feng X (February 2013). "Expression profiles of hippocampal regenerative sprouting-related genes and their regulation by E-64d in a developmental rat model of penicillin-induced recurrent epilepticus". Toxicology Letters. 217 (2): 162–9. doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.12.010. PMID23266720.
↑Luo CL, Chen XP, Yang R, Sun YX, Li QQ, Bao HJ, Cao QQ, Ni H, Qin ZH, Tao LY (October 2010). "Cathepsin B contributes to traumatic brain injury-induced cell death through a mitochondria-mediated apoptotic pathway". Journal of Neuroscience Research. 88 (13): 2847–58. doi:10.1002/jnr.22453. PMID20653046.
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↑Hoegen T, Tremel N, Klein M, Angele B, Wagner H, Kirschning C, Pfister HW, Fontana A, Hammerschmidt S, Koedel U (November 2011). "The NLRP3 inflammasome contributes to brain injury in pneumococcal meningitis and is activated through ATP-dependent lysosomal cathepsin B release". Journal of Immunology. 187 (10): 5440–51. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1100790. PMID22003197.
↑Hook VY, Kindy M, Hook G (March 2008). "Inhibitors of cathepsin B improve memory and reduce beta-amyloid in transgenic Alzheimer disease mice expressing the wild-type, but not the Swedish mutant, beta-secretase site of the amyloid precursor protein". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283 (12): 7745–53. doi:10.1074/jbc.m708362200. PMID18184658.
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↑Hook V, Toneff T, Bogyo M, Greenbaum D, Medzihradszky KF, Neveu J, Lane W, Hook G, Reisine T (September 2005). "Inhibition of cathepsin B reduces beta-amyloid production in regulated secretory vesicles of neuronal chromaffin cells: evidence for cathepsin B as a candidate beta-secretase of Alzheimer's disease". Biological Chemistry. 386 (9): 931–40. doi:10.1515/BC.2005.108. PMID16164418.
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