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Inhibitors of urokinase and thrombin in cultured neural cells

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authors

  • Wagner, S. L.
  • Lau, A. L.
  • Nguyen, A.
  • Mimuro, J.
  • Loskutoff, David J.
  • Isackson, P. J.
  • Cunningham, D. D.

publication date

  • January 1991

journal

  • Journal of Neurochemistry  Journal

abstract

  • Recent studies have suggested important roles for certain proteases and protease inhibitors in the growth and development of the CNS. In the present studies, inhibitors of urokinase or thrombin in cultured neural cells and serum-free medium from the cells were identified by screening for components that formed sodium dodecyl sulfate-stable complexes with 125I-urokinase or 125I-thrombin. Rinsed glioblastoma possessed two components that complexed 125I-urokinase. One was type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1), because the 125I-urokinase-containing complexes were immunoprecipitated with anti-PAI-1 antibodies. The other component formed complexes with 125I-urokinase that were not recognized by antibodies to PAI-1 or protease nexin-1 (PN-1). Its identity is unknown. In addition to these cell-bound components, the glioblastoma cells also secreted two inhibitors that formed complexes with 125I-urokinase; one was PAI-1, and the other was PN-1. The secreted PN-1 also formed complexes with 125I-thrombin. It was the only thrombin inhibitor detected in these studies. Human neuroblastoma cells did not contain components that formed detectable complexes with either 125I-urokinase or 125I-thrombin. However, human neuroblastoma cells did contain very low levels of PN-1 mRNA and PN-1 protein. Added PN-1 bound to the surface of both glioblastoma and neuroblastoma cells. This interaction accelerated the inhibition of thrombin by PN-1 and blocked the ability of PN-1 to form complexes with 125I-urokinase. Thus, cell-bound PN-1 was a specific thrombin inhibitor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

subject areas

  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Glioma
  • Humans
  • Immunosorbent Techniques
  • Molecular Weight
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Plasminogen Inactivators
  • Protease Nexins
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • Serpin E2
  • Thrombin
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator
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Research

keywords

  • FETAL RAT ASTROCYTES
  • GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS
  • NEUROBLASTOMA CELLS
  • PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR-1
  • PROTEASE NEXIN-1
  • THROMBIN
  • UROKINASE
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-3042

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb02586.x

PubMed ID

  • 1987320
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 234

end page

  • 242

volume

  • 56

issue

  • 1

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