title: Biochemical characterization of human collagenase-3.
abstract: The cDNA of a novel matrix metalloproteinase, collagenase-3 (MMP-13) has been isolated from a breast tumor library (Freije, J. M. P., Dicz-Itza, I., Balbin, M., Sanchez, L. M., Blasco, R., Tolivia, J., and López-Otin, C. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 16766-16773), and a potential role in tumor progression has been proposed for this enzyme. In order to establish the possible role of collagenase-3 in connective tissue turnover, we have expressed and purified recombinant human procollagenase-3 and characterized the enzyme biochemically. The purified procollagenase-3 was shown to be glycosylated and displayed a M(r) of 60,000, the N-terminal sequence being LPLPSGGD, which is consistent with the cDNA-predicted sequence. The proenzyme was activated by p-aminophenylmercuric acetate or stromelysin, yielding an intermediate form of M(r) 50,000, which displayed the N-terminal sequence L58EVTGK. Further processing resulted in cleavage of the Glu84-Tyr85 peptide bond to the final active enzyme (M(r) 48,000). Trypsin activation of procollagenase-3 also generated a Tyr85 N terminus, but it was evident that the C-terminal domain was rapidly lost, and hence the collagenolytic activity diminished. Analysis of the substrate specificity of collagenase-3 revealed that soluble type II collagen was preferentially hydrolyzed, while the enzyme was 5 or 6 times less efficient at cleaving type I or III collagen. Fibrillar type I collagen was cleaved with comparable efficiency to the fibroblast and neutrophil collagenases (MMP-1 and MMP-8), respectively. Unlike these collagenases, gelatin and the peptide substrates Mea-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-Dpa-Ala-Arg-NH2 and Mca-Pro-Cha-Gly-Nva-His-Ala-Dpa-NH2 were efficiently hydrolyzed as well, as would be predicted from the similarities between the active site sequence of collagenase-3 (MMP-13) and the gelatinases A and B. Active collagenase-3 was inhibited in a 1:1 stoichiometric fashion by the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases, TIMP-1, TIMP-2, and TIMP-3. These results suggest that in vivo collagenase-3 could play a significant role in the turnover of connective tissue matrix constituents.
authors.affiliation: Strangeways Research Laboratory, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Knäuper
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López-Otin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D017364:Collagenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004792:Enzyme Precursors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D006031:Glycosylation; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D053509:Matrix Metalloproteinase 13; D008961:Models, Structural; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D017364:Collagenases; C507079:MMP13 protein, human; D053509:Matrix Metalloproteinase 13; C022440:procollagenase