Upregulation of cell-surface-associated plasminogen activation in cultured keratinocytes by interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha

Experimental Cell Research
M J BechtelM D Kramer

Abstract

Keratinocytes synthesize and secrete urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) which is bound in an autocrine manner to a specific receptor (uPA-R) at the keratinocyte surface. Plasminogen that is also bound to specific membrane binding sites is readily activated by uPA-R-bound uPA. Thus, plasmin is provided for proteolysis of pericellular glycoproteins. The expression of uPA and the uPA-R is confined to migrating keratinocytes during epidermal wound healing, rather than to keratinocytes of the normal epidermis. The regulatory factors of uPA/uPA-R expression in keratinocytes remained largely elusive. Proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) or interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), are present in epidermal wounds. We have therefore tested IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha for their influence on surface-associated plasminogen activation in a human keratinocyte cell line (HaCaT) as well as in primary cultures of normal human epidermal keratinocytes. Both cytokines induced the secretion of uPA into the culture supernatants and a concomitant increase in uPA activity as well as in uPA and uPA-R antigen at the cell surface. The increase was preceded by an increase in specific mRNA. The induction was accompanied by a...Continue Reading

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