title: Regulation of mesangial cell adhesion and shape by thrombin.
abstract: Adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) elevation in cultured rat mesangial cells causes urokinase-dependent adhesion loss, stress-fiber fragmentation, and shape change. Thrombin cleaves single-chain urokinase (scu-PA), causing its inactivation, but not two-chain u-PA [tcu-plasminogen activator (PA)] or tissue-type PA. We tested the ability of thrombin to inhibit the effects of cAMP elevation in mesangial cells and inactivate cell-associated scu-PA. In an assay of trypsin-sensitive adhesion, 65.9% of control cells and 5.5% of cells treated with isoproterenol + methylisobutylxanthine (IM) remained adherent. In the presence of 0.01, 0.1, 1.0, and 10.0 unit/ml thrombin, 20.9, 46.6, 50.4, and 53.3%, respectively, of IM-treated cells remained attached. Thrombin also inhibited stress-fiber fragmentation and shape change. The effects of thrombin were blocked by hirudin or antithrombin III plus heparin. Direct zymography in gels containing gelatin and plasminogen revealed loss of a closely spaced pair of PA bands with thrombin treatment (1.0 unit/ml). Hirudin blocked the loss. alpha-Thrombin inactivated by diisopropyl fluorophosphate neither inhibited shape change nor caused loss of the PA bands; however, gamma-thrombin was nearly as active as native alpha-thrombin in both regards. Pretreatment of the cells with as little as 1.0 unit/ml thrombin for 1.0 min caused marked inhibition of shape change and near total loss of the slower migrating u-PA band (of the doublet). The faster migrating band was inhibited less. The results indicate that the slower migrating band represents scu-PA; the nature of the faster migrating band is less certain. Thrombin reversed the adhesion loss and shape change caused by 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-cAMP and MIX. Thus physiological concentrations of thrombin rapidly inactivate mesangial cell scu-PA and inhibit and reverse cAMP-stimulated adhesion loss and shape change.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284.
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Glass
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rampt
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Garoni
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Kreisberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators / Q000494:pharmacology; D013917:Thrombin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D013917:Thrombin