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García-Bañuelos J, Oceguera-Contreras E, Sandoval-Rodríguez A, Bastidas-Ramírez BE, Lucano-Landeros S, Gordillo-Bastidas D, Gómez-Meda BC, Santos A, Cerda-Reyes E, Armendariz-Borunda J. AdhMMP8 Vector Administration in Muscle: An Alternate Strategy to Regress Hepatic Fibrosis. Cells 2023; 12:2127. [PMID: 37681859 PMCID: PMC10486800 DOI: 10.3390/cells12172127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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The development of several vaccines against the SARS-CoV2 virus and their application in millions of people have shown efficacy and safety in the transfer of genes to muscle turning this tissue into a protein-producing factory. Established advanced liver fibrosis, is characterized by replacement of hepatic parenchyma by tissue scar, mostly collagen type I, with increased profibrogenic and proinflammatory molecules gene expression. Matrix metalloproteinase 8 (MMP-8) is an interstitial collagen-degrading proenzyme acting preferentially on collagen type I when activated. This study was carried out to elucidate the effect of an intramuscularly delivered adenoviral vector containing proMMP-8 gene cDNA (AdhMMP8) in male Wistar rats with experimental advanced liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide. Therapeutic effects were monitored after 1, 2, or 3 weeks of a single dose (3 × 1011 vp/kg) of AdhMMP8. Circulating and liver concentration of MMP-8 protein remained constant; hepatic fibrosis decreased up to 48%; proinflammatory and profibrogenic genes expression diminished: TNF-α 2.28-fold, IL-1 1.95-fold, Col 1A1 4-fold, TGF-β1 3-fold and CTGF 2-fold; and antifibrogenic genes expression raised, MMP-9 2.8-fold and MMP-1 10-fold. Our data proposes that the administration of AdhMMP8 in muscle is safe and effective in achieving liver fibrosis regression at a comparable extent as when the adenoviral vector is delivered systemically to reach the liver, using a minimally invasive procedure.
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- Jesús García-Bañuelos
- Institute for Molecular Biology in Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Sistemas Biológicos, Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara, Carretera Guadalajara-Ameca km. 45.5, Ameca 46600, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Institute for Molecular Biology in Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigación en Enfermedades Crónico Degenerativas, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Institute for Molecular Biology in Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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- Instituto de Genética Humana “Dr. Enrique Corona Rivera”, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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- Institute for Molecular Biology in Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44340, Jalisco, Mexico
- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey 64849, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Thakker-Varia S, Tozzi CA, Poiani GJ, Babiarz JP, Tatem L, Wilson FJ, Riley DJ. Expression of matrix-degrading enzymes in pulmonary vascular remodeling in the rat. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 275:L398-406. [PMID: 9700102 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.1998.275.2.l398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Exposure of rats to hypoxia causes pulmonary arterial remodeling, which is partly reversible after return to air. We hypothesized that degradation of excess collagen in remodeled pulmonary arteries in the posthypoxic period is mediated by endogenous matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Total proteolytic, collagenolytic, and gelatinolytic activities, levels of stromelysin-1 and tissue inhibitor of metalloprotease-1 (TIMP-1), and immunolocalization of stromelysin-1 in main pulmonary arteries were determined after exposure of rats to 10% O2 for 10 days followed by normoxia. We observed transient increases in total proteolytic, collagenolytic, and gelatinolytic activities and expression of approximately 72-, 68-, and 60-kDa gelatinases by zymography within 3 days of cessation of hypoxic exposure. The level of TIMP-1 increased as the stromelysin-1 level increased. Immunoreactive stromelysin-1 was localized predominantly in the luminal region of normal and hypertensive pulmonary arteries. These results are consistent with the notion that endogenous MMPs may mediate the breakdown of excess collagen in remodeled pulmonary arteries during the early posthypoxic period.
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- S Thakker-Varia
- Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA
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Esser RE, Angelo RA, Murphey MD, Watts LM, Thornburg LP, Palmer JT, Talhouk JW, Smith RE. Cysteine proteinase inhibitors decrease articular cartilage and bone destruction in chronic inflammatory arthritis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1994; 37:236-47. [PMID: 8129779 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780370213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of peptidyl fluoromethyl ketones on the in vitro activity of purified cathepsins B and L, on tissue cysteine proteinase activity, and on cartilage and bone destruction in experimental arthritis. METHODS The effects of the fluoroketones on cathepsins B and L in vitro and the effects of oral administration of fluoroketones on ex vivo cysteine proteinase activity in tissue homogenates were determined by measuring the inhibition of fluorogenic substrate cleavage. To determine the effects on arthritis, animals were injected with adjuvant or type II collagen, treated orally with the fluoroketones, and the severity of arthritis was assessed by clinical, histologic, and radiologic methods. RESULTS All of the fluoroketones tested were potent inhibitors of purified cathepsins B and L activity. Oral administration of the fluoroketones reduced tissue cysteine proteinase activity by up to 77%. In addition, fluoroketone treatment significantly reduced the severity of clinical joint disease and decreased the destruction of articular cartilage and bone. Quantitative analysis of radiographic images indicated that treatment significantly reduced soft tissue changes, periosteal proliferation, and bone erosion, but only partially reduced juxtaarticular osteoporosis. CONCLUSION These studies suggest that cysteine proteinase inhibitors may limit tissue destruction in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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- R E Esser
- Marion Merrell Dow Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
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Takahashi S, Ito A, Nagino M, Mori Y, Xie B, Nagase H. Cyclic adenosine 3‘,5‘-monophosphate suppresses interleukin 1-induced synthesis of matrix metalloproteinases but not of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases in human uterine cervical fibroblasts. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54867-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wright JK, Cawston TE, Hazleman BL. Transforming growth factor beta stimulates the production of the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) by human synovial and skin fibroblasts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1094:207-10. [PMID: 1654118 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90010-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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IL-1 stimulates the secretion of metalloproteinases by a variety of connective tissue cells and is thought to be the primary inducing agent of connective tissue breakdown in rheumatoid arthritis. Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is known to be capable of inhibiting the synthesis of metalloproteinases and to be able to partially inhibit interleukin-1 (IL-1) induced cartilage degradation. The present paper examines the ability of TGF-beta to modulate the action of IL-1 on fibroblasts of synovial and skin origin and investigates the secretion of the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) by these cells after exposure to TGF-beta and IL-1. The principal findings are that when four out of five fibroblast lines were exposed to TGF-beta and IL-1 in combination they displayed a significant increase in TIMP secretion; furthermore, in two of these cell lines a significant stimulation of TIMP secretion was induced by TGF-beta alone.
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- J K Wright
- Rheumatology Research Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, U.K
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Okada Y, Morodomi T, Enghild JJ, Suzuki K, Yasui A, Nakanishi I, Salvesen G, Nagase H. Matrix metalloproteinase 2 from human rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts. Purification and activation of the precursor and enzymic properties. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 194:721-30. [PMID: 2269296 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19462.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 341] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Human rheumatoid synovial cells in culture secrete at least three related metalloproteinases that digest extracellular matrix macromolecules. One of them, termed matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2), has been purified as an inactive zymogen (proMMP-2). The final product is homogeneous on SDS/PAGE with Mr = 72,000 under reducing conditions. The NH2-terminal sequence of proMMP-2 is Ala-Pro-Ser-Pro-Ile-Ile-Lys-Phe-Pro-Gly-Asp-Val-Ala-Pro-Lys-Thr, which is identical to that of the so-called '72-kDa type IV collagenase/gelatinase'. The zymogen can be rapidly activated by 4-aminophenylmercuric acetate to an active form of MMP-2 with Mr = 67,000, and the new NH2-terminal generated is Tyr-Asn-Phe-Phe-Pro-Arg-Lys-Pro-Lys-Trp-Asp-Lys-Asn-Gln-Ile. However, following 4-aminophenylmercuric acetate activation, MMP-2 is gradually inactivated by autolysis. Nine endopeptidases (trypsin, chymotrypsin, plasmin, plasma kallikrein, thrombin, neutrophil elastase, cathepsin G, matrix metalloproteinase 3, and thermolysin) were tested for their abilities to activate proMMP-2, but none had this ability. This contrasts with the proteolytic activation of proMMP-1 (procollagenase) and proMMP-3 (prostromelysin). The optimal activity of MMP-2 against azocoll is around pH 8.5, but about 50% of activity is retained at pH 6.5. Enzymic activity is inhibited by EDTA, 1,10-phenanthroline or tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases, but not by inhibitors of serine, cysteine or aspartic proteinases. MMP-2 digests gelatin, fibronectin, laminin, and collagen type V, and to a lesser extent type IV collagen, cartilage proteoglycan and elastin. Comparative studies on digestion of collagen types IV and V by MMP-2 and MMP-3 (stromelysin) indicate that MMP-3 degrades type IV collagen more readily than MMP-2, while MMP-2 digests type V collagen effectively. Biosynthetic studies of MMPs using cultured human rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts indicated that the production of both proMMP-1 and proMMP-3 is negligible but it is greatly enhanced by the treatment with rabbit-macrophage-conditioned medium, whereas the synthesis of proMMP-2 is constitutively expressed by these cells and is not significantly affected by the treatment. This suggests that the physiological and/or pathological role of MMP-2 and its site of action may be different from those of MMP-1 and MMP-3.
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- Y Okada
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Kanazawa, Japan
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Rabbit procollagenase synthesized and secreted by a high-yield mammalian expression vector requires stromelysin (matrix metalloproteinase-3) for maximal activation. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45698-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- C E Brinckerhoff
- Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756
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Nethery A, O'Grady RL. Identification of a metalloproteinase co-purifying with rat tumour collagenase and the characteristics of fragments of both enzymes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 994:149-60. [PMID: 2535940 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(89)90154-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A metalloproteinase similar or identical to stromelysin was shown to co-purify with interstitial collagenase from the rat mammary carcinoma cell line, BC1. The mixture of BC1 metalloproteinase and collagenase degraded casein, gelatin, fibronectin, fibrinogen, laminin, proteoglycan and type IV collagen, in addition to types I and II collagen. Using SDS-PAGE and zymography, the Mr of both enzymes was 51.10(3). During storage, the 51.10(3) protein converted to fragments of Mr 34.10(3) and 24.10(3), and isoelectric points of 4.6-5.3 and 5.7-6.0, respectively. The fragments were separated from the intact (Mr 51.10(3) enzymes by DEAE-Sepharose chromatography, but intact metalloproteinase and collagenase activities resisted separation by a range of chromatographic methods. The Mr 34.10(3) fragment retained the proteinolytic activities of the intact enzymes, excepting collagenase cleavage of collagen types I and II. The Mr 24.10(3) fragment had no proteinolytic activity, showed an increase in Mr of 6.10(3) upon reduction, in common with the intact enzymes, and also had similar chromatographic properties to the intact enzymes. The data presented are consistent with a pattern of breakdown which is common to both collagenase and the metalloproteinase, and suggest that both enzymes are comprised of two protein domains.
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- A Nethery
- Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, Australia
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Recently our laboratory has reported, in a lacerated flexor tendon model, that the "early turnover" phase of the repair process extends for a longer period of time in vivo than previously documented. The extensive turnover of the collagenous matrix was consistent with the presence of collagenolytic activity in repairing tendon tissue and suggested a possible regulatory role for neutral metalloproteinases in flexor tendon repair. However, these in vivo observations could not distinguish the relative contribution by the tendon fibroblasts from that of the surrounding sheath and vascular tissue elements. To further define these interrelationships, the present study investigates the repair process of the flexor tendon in an in vitro tissue culture environment. The sequential changes in matrix formation were defined (i.e., proteoglycans/glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins, and collagenous proteins). The concomitant production of neutral metalloproteinases as well as prostaglandin E2 was determined in relation to net tissue repair. Profundus flexor tendon segments were obtained from young adult Macaca nemestrina monkeys and maintained in organ culture for periods from 4 days through 9 weeks. Initially (at 2 wks) there was an increase in both sulfated and nonsulfated glycosaminoglycans, which preceded the onset of maximal collagen protein formation. By 6 and 9 weeks of in vitro repair, of the lacerated tendon segments, there was a significant increase in net collagen formation. Neutral metalloproteinase activity increased early in the repair period, from the 4th to 9th day, and decreased thereafter through the 9th week of culture. Functionally the enzyme appeared to be a gelatinase. The temporal pattern of in vitro collagen synthesis in relation to the gelatinase activity support the hypothesis that regulation of this enzyme(s) may be a critical factor in mediating the flexor tendon response to injury.
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- J E Russell
- Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Ito A, Nagase H. Evidence that human rheumatoid synovial matrix metalloproteinase 3 is an endogenous activator of procollagenase. Arch Biochem Biophys 1988; 267:211-6. [PMID: 2848449 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(88)90025-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The treatment of crude culture medium from human rheumatoid synovial cells with 4-aminophenylmercuric acetate (APMA) or trypsin results in the activation of procollagenase. This process was shown to be dependent on the presence of matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP-3). MMP-3 can directly activate procollagenase without changing the apparent molecular weight of procollagenase. This activity was accelerated in the presence of APMA. We propose that MMP-3 plays an important role in connective tissue destruction through the activation of procollagenase in addition to its direct action on components of the extracellular matrix.
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- A Ito
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66103
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Sanchez-Lopez R, Nicholson R, Gesnel MC, Matrisian LM, Breathnach R. Structure-function relationships in the collagenase family member transin. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37870-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Murphy G, Nagase H, Brinckerhoff CE. Relationship of procollagenase activator, stromelysin and matrix metalloproteinase 3. COLLAGEN AND RELATED RESEARCH 1988; 8:389-91. [PMID: 2850888 DOI: 10.1016/s0174-173x(88)80009-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- G Murphy
- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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Brinckerhoff CE, Mitchell TI. Autocrine control of collagenase synthesis by synovial fibroblasts. J Cell Physiol 1988; 136:72-80. [PMID: 2840444 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041360109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Fibroblasts respond to exogenous stimuli, such as Interleukin 1, phorbol esters, or crystals of monosodium urate monohydrate, by synthesizing and secreting large quantities of collagenase. Here we show that addition of exogenous stimuli results in the production of an autologous protein that is, itself, capable of inducing collagenase. This autocrine has been partially purified. Activity resides in a protein(s) with a pl of 5 or 8 and with Mr of approximately 15K. Conversely, conditioned medium taken from unstimulated cultures contains an inhibitor of collagenase synthesis. This protein, which has a Mr approximately 20-25k by HPLC gel filtration antagonizes collagenase synthesis induced by phorbol esters, exogenous parallel 1, and the autologous inducer. We conclude that synovial fibroblasts regulate collagenase synthesis via an autocrine mechanism that includes the synthesis of both an inducer and inhibitor. Both proteins are active at nanomolar amounts and may function as polypeptide hormones in regulating collagenase synthesis and, hence, connective tissue remodeling.
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- C E Brinckerhoff
- Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756
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Fini ME, Karmilowicz MJ, Ruby PL, Beeman AM, Borges KA, Brinckerhoff CE. Cloning of a complementary DNA for rabbit proactivator. A metalloproteinase that activates synovial cell collagenase, shares homology with stromelysin and transin, and is coordinately regulated with collagenase. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1987; 30:1254-64. [PMID: 2825726 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780301108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Rabbit proactivator is a neutral metalloproteinase that activates another metalloproteinase, procollagenase, and degrades noncollagenous matrix. We describe the construction of an activator complementary DNA (cDNA) clone, which is 1.9 kb, that selects a 2.1-kb messenger RNA (mRNA) in Northern blot hybridizations. Nucleic acid sequence studies of the activator cDNA indicate 1) that it encodes protein Mr 53,881, 2) that this protein exhibits approximately 80% homology with rat transin, an oncogene-induced protein with a previously unknown function, and 3) that, in the first 172 residues, it is virtually identical to the rabbit metalloproteinase, stromelysin. Homology between rabbit activator and human skin collagenase is approximately 50%. Activator and collagenase mRNA are coordinately regulated; untreated cultures of rabbit synovial fibroblasts produce low levels of each protein, but addition of phorbol myristate acetate (10(-8)M) results in an increase in mRNA for both proteins by 2.5-5 hours. Adding all-trans-retinoic acid (10(-6)M) or dexamethasone (10(-7)M) to phorbol-stimulated cells coordinately suppresses both activator and collagenase mRNA. Our data suggest the existence of coordinately regulated metalloproteinases that are important in the modulation of connective tissue metabolism.
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- M E Fini
- Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756
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Edwards DR, Murphy G, Reynolds JJ, Whitham SE, Docherty AJ, Angel P, Heath JK. Transforming growth factor beta modulates the expression of collagenase and metalloproteinase inhibitor. EMBO J 1987; 6:1899-904. [PMID: 2820711 PMCID: PMC553574 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1987.tb02449.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 830] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Exposure of quiescent MRC-5 human fibroblasts to growth factors such as epidermal growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor or embryonal carcinoma-derived growth factor resulted in the induction of mRNA transcripts encoding the metalloproteinases collagenase and stromelysin and the specific metalloproteinase inhibitor TIMP, whilst expression of collagen and fibronectin was relatively unaffected. Exposure of quiescent cells to growth factors in the presence of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) resulted in inhibition of collagenase induction and a synergistic increase in TIMP expression. TGF-beta alone did not significantly induce metalloproteinase or TIMP expression. These effects on mRNA transcripts were reflected in increased secretion of TIMP protein and collagenase activity. Nuclear run-off analysis of growth factor-induced transcription revealed that the TGF-beta modulation of TIMP and collagenase expression was due to transcriptional mechanisms. The observations suggest that TGF-beta exerts a selective effect on extracellular matrix deposition by modulating the action of other growth factors on metalloproteinase and TIMP expression.
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- D R Edwards
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
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Brinckerhoff CE, Ruby PL, Austin SD, Fini ME, White HD. Molecular cloning of human synovial cell collagenase and selection of a single gene from genomic DNA. J Clin Invest 1987; 79:542-6. [PMID: 3027129 PMCID: PMC424122 DOI: 10.1172/jci112845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We used a subclone of a rabbit genomic clone for collagenase that cross-hybridizes with human synovial cell messenger RNA (mRNA) to identify a human collagenase complementary DNA (cDNA) clone. The human cDNA clone is 2.1 kilobases (kb) and selects a mRNA transcript of approximately the same size from primary cultures of rheumatoid synovial cells that produce collagenase, but no mRNA is selected from control (nonproducing) synovial fibroblasts. Restriction enzyme analysis and DNA sequence data indicate that our cDNA clone is full length and that it is identical to that recently described for human skin fibroblast collagenase. The cDNA clone identified a single collagenase gene of approximately 17 kb from blots of human genomic DNA. The identity of human skin and synovial cell collagenase and the ubiquity of this enzyme and of its substrates, the interstitial collagens types I, II, and III, imply that common mechanisms controlling collagenolysis throughout the human body may be operative in both normal and disease states.
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