title: Stimulated production of urokinase and plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 by the human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60.
abstract: The effects of maturation inducing agents on the production of plasminogen activator (PA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) by the human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 were examined. PA activity, which was calibrated with a urokinase standard, was 3-6 mU/10(6) cells when measured in supernatants from control cells. This activity increased at least two-fold after dimethylformamide (DMF) or retinoic acid (RA) was added to cell cultures, and as much as ten to thirty-fold when cells were exposed to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (PMA), an agent that induces monocytoid differentiation in HL-60 cells. The PA activity produced by control and induced cells had the same molecular weight as urokinase (UK), and was completely inhibited by antibodies to UK. Cells that were induced with PMA but not with RA or DMF also produced an inhibitor to UK that was identified as PAI-2, the plasminogen activator inhibitor that is produced by monocytes. Because of its dual capacity to produce both UK and PAI, the HL-60 cell line represents a useful model for studies of the fibrinolytic mediators that are generated and released by leukemia cells.
mesh_terms: D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D010960:Plasminogen Activators / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D010960:Plasminogen Activators; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator