Protease signaling through protease activated receptor 1 mediate nerve activation by mucosal supernatants from irritable bowel syndrome but not from ulcerative colitis patients.
Sabine BuhnerHannes HahneKerstin HartwigQin LiSheila VignaliDaniela OstertagChen MengGabriele HörmannspergerBreg BraakChristian PehlThomas FrielingGiovanni BarbaraRoberto De GiorgioIhsan Ekin DemirGüralp Onur CeyhanFlorian ZellerGuy BoeckxstaensDirk HallerBernhard KusterMichael SchemannPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Proteases in IBS and UC supernatants were responsible for nerve activation. Our data demonstrate that proteases, particularly those signalling through neuronal PAR1, are biomarker candidates for IBS, and protease profiling may be used to characterise IBS.