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University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Departments of
Cell Biology and Physiology and
Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; and Departments of
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Anatomy and Cell Biology and
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Oncology, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
We have previously documented that adoptively transferred IL-2-activated NK (A-NK) cells can accumulate within cancer metastases. Electron microscopic studies of pulmonary metastases have revealed that adoptively transferred A-NK cells that accumulate within metastases bind to endothelial cells and are able to traverse basement membranes. We have now extended these morphologic studies. We report that rat A-NK cells produce two matrix metalloproteinases: MMP-2 and MMP-9, as determined by SDS-PAGE gelatin zymography. These activities are inhibited following incubation with BB-94 (batimastat), a specific inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases but not with 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin, an inhibitor of neutral serine proteases. The identity of MMP-2 was confirmed by Western blots using a polyclonal Ab against human MMP-2, whereas reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis of mRNA extracts of A-NK cells has confirmed the presence of MMP-9. In addition, we report for the first time that A-NK cells can migrate through a model basement membrane-like extracellular matrix. Moreover, the ability of A-NK cells to migrate through this model basement membrane was partially inhibited by BB-94; however, BB-94 has no effect on A-NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity, suggesting that matrix metalloproteinases do not contribute to cytolytic function of A-NK cells. In sum, our studies show that A-NK cells employ BB-94-inhibitable matrix metalloproteinases to degrade extracellular matrices. This suggests that matrix metalloproteinases may play a role in the accumulation of A-NK cells within cancer metastases.
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