title: [Production of hyaluronidase by cultured human tumor cells].
abstract: The presence of hyaluronidase was detected at pH 3.8 in eight out of twelve human cancer cell line culture media. Eight cell lines derived from primary tumours and four from metastases. In three culture media the enzymatic activity was lower than 0.035 pU/cell/h. In five others (in a hepatoma cell line and in four metastasis-derived cell lines) the activity was higher than 0.057 pU/cell/h. A tumour-derived fibroblast culture was negative. The optimal activity was observed at a pH comprised between 3.6 and 4. Salt inhibition of hyaluronidase was reversible. The enzyme was denaturated by a 10-min heating at 70 degrees C. The enzyme was not strictly specific for hyaluronan hydrolysis but also digested chondroitin sulfates. PH20, a spermatozoid protein that has homologies with the bee venom hyaluronidase, was not expressed by cell lines tested.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'oncologie moléculaire, centre Henri-Becquerel, Rouen, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maingonnat
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chauzy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bertrand
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olivier
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maunoury
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gioanni
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Delpech
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D006821:Hyaluronoglucosaminidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D006821:Hyaluronoglucosaminidase