Expression of human recombinant plasminogen activators enhances invasion and experimental metastasis of H-ras-transformed NIH 3T3 cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Axelrod, J H

RESUMO

The gene transfer technique was used to examine the role of plasminogen activator (PA) in the invasive and metastatic behavior of tumorigenic cells. H-ras-transformed NIH 3T3 clonal cells producing a very low level of PA were generated and further transfected with an expression plasmid containing a cDNA sequence encoding either the urokinase-type or the tissue-type human PA. Compared with the parental transformed cells, clonal cells expressing high levels of both types of recombinant PA invaded more rapidly through a basement membrane reconstituted in vitro. Furthermore, cells expressing high levels of recombinant urokinase-type PA also caused a higher incidence of pulmonary metastatic lesions after intravenous injection into nude mice. Both activities were reduced by the serine proteinase inhibitor EACA; invasion was also suppressed by antibodies blocking the activity of human PAs and by the synthetic collagenase inhibitor SC-44463. These findings provide direct genetic evidence for a causal role of PA in invasive and metastatic activities.

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