title: Wound-induced migration of MDA-MB-435 and SKOV-3 cancer cells is regulated by plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.
abstract: Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) regulates the proteolytic activity of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and there is increasing evidence for a PAI-1 role in regulating cell migration/invasion by other mechanisms like vitronectin (VN) binding and lipoprotein-receptor related protein (LRP) binding. We examined the role of PAI-1 to interact with uPA, VN, and LRP in MDA-MB-435 breast cancer and SKOV-3 ovarian cancer cells in a wound-induced cell migration assay. By different experimental conditions with PAI-1, expressed either by stable transfection or by adenoviral infection (wild-type PAI-1 and an inactive reactive site P14 mutant, T333R) or by addition of recombinant PAI-1 and various mutants (stable wild-type, P14 T333R, reactive center P1 R346A, reduced VN-binding Q123K, and reduced LRP-binding R76E), we found that the PAI-1-VN interaction was foremost in suppressing wound-induced cell migration. Likewise, a VN-antibody that blocks cell adhesion to VN mimicked the effect of PAI-1 to reduce wound-induced SKOV-3 cell migration. However, manipulation of the endogenous plasminogen activator system (using blocking antibodies to PAI-1 and to uPA) in wound-induced SKOV-3 cell migration demonstrated an important role for uPA inhibition by PAI-1 that was dependent on plasminogen. By contrast, smooth muscle cell wound-induced migration was promoted by exogenously added PAI-1, but this enhancement was dependent on PAI-1 binding to LRP, not binding to VN. These findings contribute to the overall complexity of the role of PAI-1 in regulating cell migration; especially since both VN binding and uPA inhibition are involved in suppressing wound-induced breast and ovarian cancer cell migration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7035, USA.
authors.forename: Brandi R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Whitley
authors.forename: Frank C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Church
mesh_terms: D000584:Amiloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000494:pharmacology; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006801:Humans; D026502:LDL-Receptor Related Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D032389:Myocytes, Smooth Muscle / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000187:drug effects; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D019096:Vitronectin / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D026502:LDL-Receptor Related Proteins; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1; D019096:Vitronectin; D000584:Amiloride; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator