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HORMONES AND SIGNALING

Caerulein-induced intracellular pancreatic zymogen activation is dependent on calcineurin

Departments of ¹Pediatrics and ²Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Health Care, New Haven, Connecticut

Submitted 26 October 2006 ; accepted in final form 22 February 2007

Aberrant cytosolic Ca²⁺ flux in pancreatic acinar cells is critical to the pathological pancreatic zymogen activation observed in acute pancreatitis, but the downstream effectors are not known. In this study, we examined the role of Ca²⁺-activated protein phosphatase 2B (or calcineurin) in zymogen activation. Isolated pancreatic acinar cells were stimulated with supraphysiological caerulein (100 nM) with or without the calcineurin inhibitors FK506 or cell-permeable calcineurin inhibitory peptide (CiP). Chymotrypsin activity was measured as a marker of zymogen activation, and the percent amylase secretion was used as a measure of enzyme secretion. Cytosolic Ca²⁺ changes were recorded in acinar cells loaded with the intermediate Ca²⁺-affinity dye fluo-5F using a scanning confocal microscope. A 50% reduction in chymotrypsin activity was observed after pretreatment with 1 µM FK506 or 10 µM CiP. These pretreatments did not affect amylase secretion or the rise in cytosolic Ca²⁺ after caerulein stimulation. These findings suggest that calcineurin mediates caerulein-induced intra-acinar zymogen activation but not enzyme secretion or the initial caerulein-induced cytosolic Ca²⁺ signal.

pancreatitis; protein phosphatase 2B; pancreatic acinar; calcium signaling

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