title: Molecular characterization of a low-molecular-mass matrix metalloproteinase secreted by glomerular mesangial cells as PUMP-1.
abstract: A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based homology cloning strategy was used to define the spectrum of stromelysin-like matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) synthesized by cultured glomerular mesangial cells (MC). Using this technique, cDNAs encoding an unusual, truncated member of the MMP family, punctuated (putative) metalloproteinase (PUMP-1), were exclusively isolated. Incubation with the cytokines interleukin 1 and tumour necrosis factor increased the abundance of PUMP-1 mRNA in mesangial cells. The mesangial PUMP-1 mRNA is processed in a tissue-specific manner, yielding a transcript containing repeated 3'-untranslated region ATTTA motifs commonly found in cytokines with limited mRNA stability. Polyclonal antibodies prepared against the C-terminal region of the PUMP-1 protein documented release of this enzyme by cultures of cytokine-stimulated MC and permitted identification of PUMP-1-expressing mesangial cells within clinical biopsy specimens of acute glomerulonephritis. These findings represent new molecular and clinical evidence that non-malignant cells process and secrete this unusual member of the MMP family in a cytokine-mediated, tissue-specific manner. Mesangial synthesis of PUMP-1 may contribute to the progression of injury during glomerular inflammatory states.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, San Francisco VAMC-University of California, San Francisco 94121.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Marti
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McNeil
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lovett
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D020783:Matrix Metalloproteinase 7; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004247:DNA; D008666:Metalloendopeptidases; D020783:Matrix Metalloproteinase 7