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XB-ART-29242
FEBS Lett 1985 Apr 22;1832:304-8.
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Human Z alpha 1-antitrypsin accumulates intracellularly and stimulates lysosomal activity when synthesised in the Xenopus oocyte.

Bathurst IC , Errington DM , Foreman RC , Judah JD , Carrell RW .


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Microinjection of human liver mRNA from a patient homozygous for alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiZZ) into Xenopus oocytes led to a 2--10-fold increase in lysosomal activity. Stimulation of lysosomal activity was not observed when mRNA from a normal human liver (alpha 1-antitrypsin PiMM), or water was injected into the oocyte. This lysosomal activity was oocyte derived and was not due to translation products of the human liver mRNA. Thus a protein that accumulates intracellularly in the secretory pathway is capable of stimulating lysosomal activity.

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