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Peritoneal macrophages and polymorphonuclear neutrophils are key cells in the repair of postoperative injury. Increased numbers of macrophages migrate into the peritoneal cavity after operation and the function of these cells changes over the postoperative interval. Macrophage activities, such as respiratory burst, arachidonic acid metabolism, monokine secretion, and plasminogen activator inhibitory activity, are elevated by peritoneal operation. However, the secretion of plasminogen activator activity is decreased after operation. The kinetics with which each of these functions changes varies with the parameter examined, indicating a complex regulation of the differentiation of leukocytes after operation. In addition, the activity of postoperative macrophages can be modulated in vitro by exposure to cytokines and conditioned media from polymorphonuclear neutrophils and macrophages. Thus, cell-cell interactions and factors secreted within the peritoneal cavity may regulate the contribution of postoperative leukocytes to peritoneal repair after operation.
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Affiliation(s)
- K E Rodgers
- Livingston Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033
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Rodgers KE, Abe H, Campeau JD, Ellefson DD, Girgis W, diZerega GS. In vivo administration of tolmetin in hyaluronic acid modulates protease levels in postsurgical macrophage-conditioned media. J INVEST SURG 1992; 5:285-96. [PMID: 1472482 DOI: 10.3109/08941939209012446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tolmetin sodium in a hyaluronic acid carrier (tolmetin-HA) was previously shown to reduce adhesion formation and alter the kinetics and levels of cellular influx into the peritoneal cavity after surgery. In this study, the effect of tolmetin-HA on the level of protease activity in macrophage-conditioned media was determined. The level of collagenase activity in macrophage-conditioned media was suppressed at 12 and 24 h after administration of tolmetin-HA. Alternatively, the peak level of elastase activity measured in macrophage-conditioned media was unchanged after tolmetin-HA treatment, but the kinetics of expression of maximal protease activity was delayed from 12 h in the control surgical rabbits to 24 h in tolmetin-HA-treated rabbits. Elevated plasminogen activator activity was detected in acid-treated conditioned media from the tolmetin-HA-treated rabbits when compared to control levels. However, no alteration in the level of plasminogen activator inhibitor activity was present in conditioned media of macrophages harvested from tolmetin-HA-treated rabbits compared to controls. These data suggest that tolmetin-HA treatment altered the levels of neutral protease activity secreted by postsurgical macrophages and may therefore elevate the fibrinolytic potential of the peritoneal cavity after surgery.
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Affiliation(s)
- K E Rodgers
- Livingston Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033
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Vassalli JD, Wohlwend A, Belin D. Urokinase-catalyzed plasminogen activation at the monocyte/macrophage cell surface: a localized and regulated proteolytic system. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1992; 181:65-86. [PMID: 1330446 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-77377-8_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- J D Vassalli
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
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Mochida S, Ogata I, Hirata K, Ohta Y, Yamada S, Fujiwara K. Provocation of massive hepatic necrosis by endotoxin after partial hepatectomy in rats. Gastroenterology 1990; 99:771-7. [PMID: 2379781 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(90)90967-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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When rats received endotoxin 48 hours after two-thirds liver resection, 50% of them died within 12 hours with massive hepatic necrosis at a dose that did not affect sham-operated rats. In the hepatic sinusoids, fibrin deposition and endothelial cell destruction occurred 5 hours after endotoxin administration. When antithrombin III concentrate was infused concomitantly with endotoxin administration, all rats survived 12 hours, and the extent of hepatic necrosis and the deranged serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase values were significantly attenuated at 5 hours compared with those in the control rats. Similar improvements in the incidence of mortality and liver injury were observed after treatment with gum arabic before hepatectomy. The stimulatory state of Kupffer cells based on the ability to produce superoxide anions estimated by formazan deposition after liver perfusion with nitro blue tetrazolium and phorbol myristate acetate was increased between 24 and 72 hours after operation. This increase disappeared after gum arabic treatment. It is concluded that massive hepatic necrosis can occur as a result of sinusoidal fibrin deposition provoked by endotoxin in partially hepatectomized rats. Activated Kupffer cells may contribute to this provocation.
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- S Mochida
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Rodgers KE, Ellefson DD. Modulation of macrophage protease activity by acute administration of O,O,S trimethyl phosphorothioate. AGENTS AND ACTIONS 1990; 29:277-85. [PMID: 2160188 DOI: 10.1007/bf01966458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Previous studies showed that acute administration of O,O,S trimethyl phosphorothioate (OOS-TMP), a contaminant in malathion, acephate and fenitrothion, led to increases in metabolic activities, such as, secretion of interleukin 1 and nonspecific esterase, of splenic and peritoneal macrophages. In this report, the effect of OOS-TMP administration on the levels of the neutral proteases, elastase, collagenase and plasminogen activator, in cultures supernatants of peritoneal and splenic macrophages is presented. Acute administration of OOS-TMP elevated collagenase levels only at day 3 following treatment with 10 or 20 mg/kg OOS-TMP. Levels of elastase in culture supernatant of peritoneal and splenic macrophages, on the other hand, was elevated at days 1, 3, 5 and 7 following administration of OOS-TMP. The effect on elastase secretion was dose-dependent at days 5 and 7 after treatment. Levels of plasminogen activator activity in the culture supernatants of splenic macrophages was elevated at day 5 following treatment with both doses of OOS-TMP. At days 1 and 3, the level of plasminogen activator inhibitor was suppressed. However, at days 5 and 7 plasminogen activator inhibitory activity was close to control values. These data show that OOS-TMP administration led to an elevation in the levels of neutral proteases in culture supernatants of peritoneal and splenic macrophages. This elevation indicates that acute OOS-TMP administration alters another parameter of macrophage function, which is elevated following exposure to acute inflammatory stimuli.
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- K E Rodgers
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033
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Fukasawa M, Campeau JD, Girgis W, Bryant SM, Rodgers KE, DiZerega GS. Production of protease inhibitors by postsurgical macrophages. J Surg Res 1989; 46:256-61. [PMID: 2493532 DOI: 10.1016/0022-4804(89)90067-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The deposition and lysis of fibrin are important processes in normal peritoneal healing. Since macrophages secrete a neutral plasminogen activator, we studied the production of plasminogen-dependent, fibrinolytic activity by postsurgical macrophages. Peritoneal exudate macrophages were collected from rabbits after resection and reanastomosis of their ileum. Intracellular plasminogen activator (PA) activity of resident (nonsurgical) macrophages was 8.4 +/- 1.8 milli-Plough units (mPU)/10(6) cells. Postsurgical Day 1 macrophages had significantly less activity (0.33 +/- 0.056 mPU/10(6) cells) compared to resident cells. Thereafter, the PA activity gradually increased and reached control levels by Postsurgical Day 7. The PA activity secreted by postsurgical macrophages into serum-free medium after 48 hr of culture was also determined. Conditioned medium from macrophages collected on Postoperative Days 1-5 exhibited less PA activity than buffer controls. PA activity was detected after acid treatment of the conditioned medium to remove acid-labile inhibitors. The activities of PA in acid-treated conditioned medium increased gradually and reached nonsurgical levels by Postsurgical Day 7. In spent medium from macrophages collected on Postsurgical Days 1-3, high levels of urokinase inhibitory activities were secreted; production gradually decreased during the later postoperative period. This inhibitory activity of macrophage-conditioned medium on urokinase-like PA activity was partially diminished by acidification of the media. These results support the hypothesis that macrophages in the postsurgical exudate may play an important role in the fibrinolytic process during peritoneal wound healing, perhaps through production and secretion of plasminogen activator as well as acid-labile and resistant protease inhibitors.
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- M Fukasawa
- Livingston Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033
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Hart DA, Rehemtulla A. Plasminogen activators and their inhibitors: regulators of extracellular proteolysis and cell function. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 90:691-708. [PMID: 2854764 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(88)90323-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- D A Hart
- Joint Injury and Diseases Research Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Godfrey HP, Malorny U, Michels E, Habicht GS, Atlas A, Randazzo B, Sorg C. Murine alpha-2-macroglobulin: localization on a subpopulation of macrophages. Immunobiology 1987; 175:183-94. [PMID: 2445662 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(87)80027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We have previously shown that mouse peritoneal macrophages synthesize and secrete alpha-2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) in culture. We have now examined whether alpha 2M delineates a subpopulation of murine macrophages. Mouse alpha 2M was purified from plasma by gel filtration and immunoabsorption to remove IgM. Purified alpha 2M was an active proteinase inhibitor, had a pI of 4.8, and a relative molecular mass (Mr) of 765 kD which dropped to 194 kD on reduction. Antisera raised against mouse alpha 2M were not cross-reactive with guinea pig or human alpha 2M, or with antigens in guinea pig, human, bovine or equine serum. One to 18 per cent of freshly isolated bone marrow, resident peritoneal or induced peritoneal macrophages displayed immunoreactive cytoplasmic and surface alpha 2M as detected by single cell immunoperoxidase assay or flow cytometry. alpha 2M was not detected in or on thymocytes or bone marrow lymphocytes. In culture, bone marrow-derived macrophages displayed peak levels of cytoplasmic alpha 2M on day 7 and two peaks of surface alpha 2M on days 2-3 and 5-7. The fact that alpha 2M can function as an anti-proteinase, can modulate lymphokine production and is present on inflammatory macrophages suggests a regulatory role for macrophages bearing and secreting this molecule at tissue sites of inflammation.
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- H P Godfrey
- Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla
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Webb AC, Collins KL, Snyder SE, Alexander SJ, Rosenwasser LJ, Eddy RL, Shows TB, Auron PE. Human monocyte Arg-Serpin cDNA. Sequence, chromosomal assignment, and homology to plasminogen activator-inhibitor. J Exp Med 1987; 166:77-94. [PMID: 3496414 PMCID: PMC2188630 DOI: 10.1084/jem.166.1.77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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An LPS-stimulated, human monocyte cDNA library was screened for stimulation-specific clones. One clone (pcD-1214) contained a 1.9-kb pair insert that hybridized to a 2,000-nucleotide mRNA expressed by peripheral blood monocytes, the histiocytic lymphoma cell line U937, and umbilical cord endothelial cells. The 415-amino-acid precursor polypeptide predicted from the cDNA (46,596 molecular weight) has a putative 22-residue signal peptide and approximately 35% homology with members of the serine protease inhibitor (Serpin) superfamily. On the basis of amino acid homology and alignment of COOH-terminal residues within the Serpin-reactive center, the clone pcD-1214 was identified as coding for an Arg-Serpin. Southern blot analysis of human-mouse somatic cell hybrid DNA locates the Arg-Serpin gene on human chromosome 18. A perfect match between amino acid residues 347-376 in this Arg-Serpin and the published sequence of a 30-residue, tryptic peptide from the COOH-terminus of a monocyte plasminogen activator-inhibitor (PAI-2), strongly suggests that the Arg-Serpin encoded by pcD-1214 is PAI-2.
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Regulation of plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator-inhibitor production by tissue culture cells: Evidence for independent induction and regulation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0268-9499(87)90017-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hart DA, Smith R. Differences between the F10, BL6 and F1 sublines of the B16 melanoma in the enhancement of plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor secretion by phorbol myristate acetate. Cancer Lett 1987; 35:27-38. [PMID: 3105864 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(87)90053-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Analysis of conditioned medium from three sublines of the B16 melanoma [F1 (parental), BL6 (invasive), F10 (metastatic)] by SDS-PAGE and zymography revealed the presence of plasminogen activator activity at 60,000 daltons. The relative activity was F10 greater than F1 greater than or equal to BL6. Treatment of the cells with the tumor promoter, phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) led to increased secretion of PA by F10 cells and a lesser increase in secretion by F1 cells and BL6 cells. In addition, a second plasminogen activator activity at 45,000 daltons was detected in conditioned medium from PMA treated F10 cells. Conditioned medium from F10 and F1 cells was also shown to contain a 33,000 dalton plasminogen activator binding protein. Upon PMA treatment the concentration of the binding protein increased in medium from F10 cells but not in similarly treated F1 cells. The binding protein, very likely a plasminogen activator inhibitor, was nearly undetectable in conditioned medium from control and PMA-treated BL6 cells. Therefore, the three sublines, which differ in in vivo phenotypic characteristics, also differ in their in vitro regulation of proteinase and proteinase inhibitor synthesis.
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Wohlwend A, Belin D, Vassalli JD. Plasminogen activator-specific inhibitors produced by human monocytes/macrophages. J Exp Med 1987; 165:320-39. [PMID: 2434595 PMCID: PMC2188521 DOI: 10.1084/jem.165.2.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Human monocytes/macrophages produce plasminogen activator-specific inhibitors (PAIs) that form covalent complexes with urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA). We have characterized two functionally and antigenically related forms of PAIs produced by resting and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-treated U 937 cells: an Mr 40,000 form, presumably nonglycosylated, with a pI of 5.2, that is constitutively synthetized by these cells and that remains predominantly intracellular; a PMA-induced form of heterogeneous Mr (50,000-65,000) with a pI of 4.7, that is preferentially secreted; this PAI is glycosylated with terminal sialic acid residue(s). Biosynthetic labeling experiments demonstrated that both PAIs are synthetized by U 937 cells. They are inactivated upon treatment with propanol, heat, and acid; the covalent and equimolar complexes formed between these PAIs and 125I-uPA are dissociated by ammonium hydroxide, suggesting that the PAIs are linked to uPA via an ester bond. Human peripheral blood monocytes/macrophages also produce the two forms of PAI. These PAIs are clearly different from the main plasma protease inhibitors and they are both antigenically related to the PAI-2 characterized in human placenta.
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Rehemtulla A, Gates J, Hart DA. Treatment of mouse L-cells with phorbol myristate acetate induces the secretion of a plasminogen activator inhibitor which binds to human and mouse urokinase and human tissue plasminogen activator. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 88:277-83. [PMID: 3119281 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(87)90114-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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1. Serum-free conditioned medium from L-cells or L-cells treated with the tumor-promotor phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was analyzed for plasminogen activator (PA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) activity. Conditioned medium from control or PMA-treated cells did not contain detectable PA activity when assayed by SDS-PAGE and zymography. 2. Conditioned medium from PMA-treated cells, but not control cells, contained a PAI of Mr = 40,000 da when assayed by reverse zymography. 3. The L-cell PAI formed SDS-stable complexes with purified human (homo sapiens) urokinase and tissue plasminogen activator, as well as, mouse (Mus musculus) urinary PA. 4. These results indicate that biochemical and immunological differences between human and mouse urokinase and human urokinase and human tissue plasminogen activator do not influence the interaction of the L-cell PAI with these enzymes.
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- A Rehemtulla
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, University of Calgary Health Sciences Centre, Alberta, Canada
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Hart DA, Rehemtulla A, Babins EM. Species differences in the detection of high molecular weight urinary plasminogen activators. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 84:287-93. [PMID: 3743021 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(86)90078-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Urine samples from 10 species of mammals were analyzed by SDS-PAGE followed by zymography for the presence of both plasminogen activators and plasminogen activator binding proteins. In contrast to results obtained with urine from humans (Homo sapiens), and to a lesser extent urine from baboons (Papio cynocephalous), urine from gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) did not exhibit either very high molecular weight plasminogen activators or the presence of plasminogen activator binding proteins. Low levels of very high molecular weight plasminogen activators could be detected in concentrates of urine samples from rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), dogs (Canis familiaris) and sheep (Ovis aries). Very high molecular weight plasminogen activators could be detected in unconcentrated guinea-pig (Cavia porcella) urine, concentrated urine samples from rats (Rattus norvegicus), but not in concentrated samples of urine from mice (Mus musculus). These results indicate that considerable variation between species exists at the level of the plasminogen activators present in urine, a finding that may relate to whether plasminogen activator binding proteins are also present in this fluid.
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The presence of a tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor in the epidermis was investigated. A partially purified tissue plasminogen activator from a Bowes melanoma cell line medium was used as a tissue plasminogen activator. Extracts of epidermis dissolved in a 10 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, were found to contain a tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor. The same extracts also contained a urokinase inhibitor. It is not clear whether these inhibitors are the same. This study is the first to show the existence of a tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor in the epidermis.
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Studies carried out by the authors on the rat mammary adenocarcinoma cell lines MAT 13762 and DMBA-8 are summarized. A series of variants and somatic cell hybrids have been prepared and partially characterized in terms of phenotypic properties which may correlate with metastatic potential. These include measurement of in vitro migration, lectin binding properties, expression of procoagulant activity and shedding of cell surface components. Particular emphasis has been placed on the production of enzymically-active plasminogen activator, as this seems to correlate with the ability of cells to metastasize. The finding has also been made that several of the cell types studied produce, in vitro, an inhibitor of plasminogen activator which may influence the metastatic behaviour of tumor cells. Results obtained are discussed in the context of the usefulness of these tumor systems for the study of spontaneous and experimental metastasis and the factors involved in these processes. Preliminary results of cloning and fluctuation analysis of metastatic potential together with discussion of the role of the metastatic heterogeneity and the formation of metastatic variants by mutation events are included.
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Danø K, Andreasen PA, Grøndahl-Hansen J, Kristensen P, Nielsen LS, Skriver L. Plasminogen activators, tissue degradation, and cancer. Adv Cancer Res 1985; 44:139-266. [PMID: 2930999 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60028-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1816] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Saksela O, Hovi T, Vaheri A. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator and its inhibitor secreted by cultured human monocyte-macrophages. J Cell Physiol 1985; 122:125-32. [PMID: 2578131 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041220119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Human blood monocytes in culture differentiate to macrophagelike cells within 1 week. Coinciding with this morphological transition the cells started releasing increasing amounts of the serine proteinase plasminogen activator (PA; Mr 56,000) of the urokinase (u-PA) type and the proteinase inhibitor alpha-2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M). Unlike the cell-associated PA activity, which was also readily detected in fresh monocytes, the activity secreted into the serum-free culture medium could be measured only after treatment of the samples with sodium dodecyl sulphate. Heat or acid treatment of the medium was not sufficient to reveal the PA activity, suggesting that, apart from alpha 2M, another PA-inhibiting substance was present in the culture medium. The inhibitor (Mr 65,000) was found to be synthesized by macrophages and specifically inhibited u-PA activity but not tissue-type PA (t-PA) or plasmin activity. Dexamethasone decreased the secretion of PA by differentiated macrophages without affecting the production of alpha 2M or the PA inhibitor. Dexamethasone also inhibited the morphological differentiation of the cells when added to the monocyte-phase cells.
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Lemaire G, Tenu JP, Petit JF, Lederer E. Effects of Microbially Derived Products on Mononuclear Phagocytes. Pharmacology 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9406-2_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Weinberg JB, Hobbs MM, Pizzo SV. Microassay for the photometric quantitation of cell-associated plasminogen activator using a chromogenic tripeptide substrate. J Immunol Methods 1984; 75:289-94. [PMID: 6596319 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(84)90112-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Plasminogen activator (PA), a neutral protease whose primary function is to convert plasminogen to plasmin, is produced by various cells including macrophages, monocytes, endothelial cells, and tumor cells. This study reports the use of the chromogenic tripeptide substrate D-Val-Leu-Lys-p-nitroanilide (S-2251) and an automated microtiter plate reader spectrophotometer for the determination of PA activity in cells and fluids. There was a linear relationship between the time of incubation at 37 degrees C and the square root of the absorbance measured at 405 nm when urokinase was incubated with the substrate in the presence of plasminogen. There was no activity in the absence of plasminogen. The slopes of the lines (square root A 405/time) were directly related to the concentrations of urokinase, up through 0.05 CTA units. Using this assay, we determined the cellular activity of PA in human promyelocytic cells HL-60 (1.33 +/- 0.12 CTA units/mg), human monocytoid cells U937 (1.27 +/- 0.12 CTA units/mg), mouse myeloid leukemia cells RFM/UN (0.70 +/- 0.07 CTA units/mg), freshly isolated normal human monocytes (0.00 +/- 0.00 CTA units/mg), and human monocytes after 7 days in culture (5.66 +/- 0.38 CTA units/mg). There was a variable amount of activity expressed in freshly isolated cells or cell lysates of peritoneal macrophages from normal mice, or mice that had gotten intraperitoneal injections of peptone, thioglycollate, or NaIO4, but after 24 or 48 h of culture, these activities, in general, increased. Using this assay, PA levels in the euglobulin precipitates from human plasma prepared without venous occlusion (0.03 +/- 0.02 CTA units/mg protein) or after 5 min of venous occlusion of the arm (0.18 +/- 0.01 CTA units/mg) were comparable to those reported by others using different assays. Thus, this represents a simple, rapid, accurate assay of PA that should be useful to those in immunology, cell biology, and clinical medicine.
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Functional heterogeneity of macrophages in age-dependent modulation of oxidative metabolism and secretion of proteases. Inflamm Res 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01966955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Vassalli JD, Dayer JM, Wohlwend A, Belin D. Concomitant secretion of prourokinase and of a plasminogen activator-specific inhibitor by cultured human monocytes-macrophages. J Exp Med 1984; 159:1653-68. [PMID: 6374011 PMCID: PMC2187313 DOI: 10.1084/jem.159.6.1653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 321] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The plasminogen activator (PA) produced by freshly purified human monocytes-macrophages and histiocytic, lymphoma-derived U 937 cells was analyzed by zymography after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and found to migrate with an apparent Mr of 55,000, identical to that of urokinase (Uk). By immunoprecipitation with antibodies specific for the two different types of PA, the enzyme was shown to be immunologically related to urokinase, and not to tissue PA. Urokinase was secreted in the form of the inactive Mr 55,000 zymogen prourokinase , and could be converted to the active Mr 55,000 enzyme by limited proteolysis with plasmin. Conditioned media from cultures of U 937 cells and monocytes-macrophages inhibited the fibrinolytic activity of exogenously added urokinase. Using [125I]-labeled urokinase we observed the formation of an enzyme-ligand complex, which was not dissociated by boiling in SDS and migrated with an apparent Mr 40,000 daltons higher than the free enzyme; since complexed urokinase was functionally inactivated as a PA, the ligand is an inhibitor of urokinase. This inhibitor is different from fibroblast-produced protease- nexin , in that it did not interact with thrombin. These results suggest that plasminogen activation by mononuclear phagocytes can be modulated through the secretion of both (pro)enzyme and a specific inhibitor.
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Ramshaw IA, Carlsen S, Wang HC, Badenoch-Jones P. The use of cell fusion to analyse factors involved in tumour cell metastasis. Int J Cancer 1983; 32:471-8. [PMID: 6684641 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910320414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Cell fusion has been used to study some of the factors involved in the process of metastasis. Highly metastatic rat mammary adenocarcinoma cells were fused with various non-metastatic cells and the hybrid clones isolated. These were then tested for their metastatic potential either by injecting the cells intravenously and measuring lung colony formation or by injecting the cells subcutaneously and measuring their ability to form lymphatic metastases. With most hybrid clones tested, the metastatic potential was either inhibited or greatly suppressed; thus this phenotype is a recessive characteristic. We also monitored the hybrid cells' ability to produce plasminogen activator (PA) a serine proteinase thought to be involved in the formation of metastatic lung foci. Whilst the highly metastatic parent cells produced large quantities of PA, none could be detected in the non-metastatic lines. Although the hybrid clones produced little PA activity this could not be correlated with their decreased metastatic potential in that one clone, after extensive in vitro culture, reverted to a more metastatic line without a concomitant increase in PA activity. The suppressed PA activity may be due to the presence of an inhibitor that is spontaneously produced by the hybrid cells.
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Remold-O'Donnell E, Lewandrowski K. Two proteinase inhibitors associated with peritoneal macrophages. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)32855-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Lemaire G, Drapier JC, Petit JF. Importance, localization and functional properties of the cell-associated form of plasminogen activator in mouse peritoneal macrophages. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1983; 755:332-43. [PMID: 6681715 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(83)90235-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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In inflammatory macrophages, plasminogen activator exists in two active forms, a soluble form released into the extracellular medium and a cell-associated form. This communication describes some properties of the cellular form of plasminogen activator, in intact macrophages and in cell lysates. Cellular plasminogen activator is a membrane protein, associated with the outer face of the plasma membrane; in intact macrophages, it participates in the activation of exogenous plasminogen and, thus, has to be considered as an ectoenzyme. A plasminogen activator activity can be detected in cell lysates (macrophage monolayers lysed in 0.1% Triton X-100) only when plasmin production is followed by the use of small synthetic substrates because a soluble inhibitor, released during extraction, blocks plasmin fibrinolytic activity. In these lysates, plasminogen activator molecules exist as high molecular weight unstable complexes exhibiting a high affinity for plasminogen.
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Macrophages which are intimately involved in acute and chronic inflammatory reactions are functionally heterogeneous not only with regard to the expression of constitutive functions but also in their response to lymphokine signals. The biological basis of this heterogeneity is poorly understood. Whether we are dealing with true subpopulations or with intermediately stable phenotypes has not been resolved. To study these questions we adopted a bone marrow liquid culture system in which bone marrow cells--in the presence of a colony-stimulating factor--proliferate and differentiate into macrophages. This culture system was taken here as a model to study the expression of various functions by macrophages in the course of maturation. Several tests were performed daily and in parallel from the same batch of cells. It was found that certain functions were expressed early and were also characteristic for mature macrophages such as Fc receptors, phagocytosis of latex beads and unspecific esterase. Other functions appeared and disappeared in an ordered sequence, such as the response to macrophage migration inhibitory factor and chemotactic factor as well as the production of interferon and plasminogen activator. The time course of functional expression was strongly dependent on proliferation of precursor cells as well as on proliferation of differentiated macrophages. It is concluded that the transient phenotypic expression of functions during differentiation is the basis for the functional heterogeneity of macrophages.
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factors (MIFs) of mouse and guinea pig have been thoroughly characterized with regard to molecular weight and isoelectric points. Several molecular weight species have been identified. In a comparative study with purified MIFs it was found that these molecules were distinct from a series of other lymphokines, particularly so from macrophage activating activities. Investigations on the molecular weight heterogeneity of MIF have led us to a transglutaminase-like activity which was found to be expressed in certain subsets of macrophages. The question whether low molecular weight factors are polymerized by this enzyme to oligomers is further investigated. Studies on the induction by lymphokines of interferon and plasminogen activator revealed a great heterogeneity of responding macrophages. In studies on the biological basis of the functional heterogeneity of macrophages, the question was investigated whether the heterogeneity was due to different macrophage subpopulations or to intermediate relatively stable phenotypes on their way to maturity and senescence. To approach this question, the bone marrow liquid culture system was used as a developing system. Our data are summarized in a unifying model which takes into account the different constitutive and inducible functions during the cell cycle. Accordingly, lymphokines may act either as differentiation signals, as mitogens or activating signals.
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Brüggen J, Fogh J, Sorg C. Tumor production in the nude mouse, fibrinolytic activity and cross-reactivity with antimelanoma sera of various human tumor cell lines. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 1981; 102:141-52. [PMID: 7200096 DOI: 10.1007/bf00410665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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It has been reported previously that antisera produced in non human primates against many cultured human melanoma lines recognize tumor-associated antigens on the melanoma cells. The reactivity correlated with other parameters of malignancy, such as rapidity of tumor growth in nude mice and release of plasminogen activator. In this study we have investigated whether these antisera also react with non melanoma cancer lines and searched for a correlation between this reaction and the other parameters of malignancy. There was cross-reactivity of the ten sera with 4-43% of the 46 non melanoma lines compared to 62-100% of the 16 melanoma lines, indicating a preferential reactivity with melanoma lines. For the non-melanoma lines no correlation was found between the release of plasminogen activator, the degree of tumorigenicity in the nude mouse or the reactivity of surface antigens as detected with antimelanoma sera.
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Dannenberg AM, Suga M, Garcia-Gonzales JE. Macrophages in granulomas: histochemical evidence suggesting local control of heterogeneous functions. HAEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION 1981; 27:109-19. [PMID: 6799365 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-81696-3_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Neumann C, Sorg C. Sequential expression of functions during macrophage differentiation in murine bone marrow liquid cultures. Eur J Immunol 1980; 10:834-40. [PMID: 6161825 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830101107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In the presence of a colony-stimulating factor, murine bone marrow cells proliferate and differentiate into macrophages. This culture system was taken as a model to study the expression of various functions by macrophages in the course of maturation. Several tests were performed daily and in parallel from the same batch of cells. It was found that certain functions were expressed early and were also characteristic for mature macrophages such as Fc receptors, phagocytosis of latex beads and unspecific esterase activity. Other functions appeared and disappeared in an ordered sequence, such as the response to macrophage migration inhibitory factor and chemotactic factor as well as the production of interferon and of plasminogen activator. The time course of functional expression was strongly dependent on proliferation of precursor cells as well as proliferation of differentiated macrophages. It is suggested that the phenotypic expression of functions during differentiation is the basis for the functional heterogeneity of macrophages.
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Klimetzek V, Remold HG. The murine bone marrow macrophage, a sensitive indicator cell for murine migration inhibitory factor and a new method for their harvest. Cell Immunol 1980; 53:257-66. [PMID: 6996839 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(80)90327-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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