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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M204058200 on August 23, 2002

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 50, 48066-48075, December 13, 2002
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Human Adipose Tissue Cells Keep Tight Control on the Angiotensin II Levels in Their Vicinity*

Petra SchlingDagger § and Thorsten Schäfer§||

From the Dagger  Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg and || Biochemie-Zentrum (BZH), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Human adipose tissue expresses all components necessary for the local production of angiotensin II, which has multiple functions in adipose tissue, ranging from regulation of local blood flow to complex influences on tissue homeostasis. Still the mechanisms controlling human adipose tissue angiotensin II concentrations are not yet known. We investigated whether angiotensin II is degraded by human primary cultured preadipocytes and adipocytes and which enzymes are responsible for its metabolism. Distinct but transient angiotensin II production was limited by degradation due to consecutive proteolytic cleavage by endopeptidase and aminopeptidase activities. The endopeptidase could be identified as neprilysin expressed on the surface of both preadipocytes and adipocytes. Degradation of angiotensin II was preceded by a lag phase that was considerably longer in preadipocytes. This time span could not be explained by an induction of neprilysin nor by an increase in its surface localization. Following the lag phase, adipocytes showed a higher degradation activity than preadipocytes as mirrored by increased neprilysin levels and activity measured in their membrane fractions. Our findings demonstrate that human preadipocytes and adipocytes differentially express functional neprilysin and aminopeptidase activity involved in the regulation of angiotensin II concentrations in human adipose tissue.


* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

§ Both authors contributed equally to this work.

To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 49-941-944- 6207; Fax: 49-941-944-6202; E-mail: petra.schling@klinik.uni-regensburg.de.


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