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Michel Demeule1, Yanick Bertrand, Jonathan Michaud-Levesque
1Laboratoire de Médecine Moléculaire, Hôpital Ste-Justine-UQAM, CP 8888, Succ Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8.
Abstract:
We recently reported that human recombinant melanotransferrin (p97) presents a high transport rate across the blood-brain barrier that might involve the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP). We now report new interactions between p97 and another LRP ligand, the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) complex. By using biospecific interaction analysis, both pro-uPA and plasminogen are shown to interact with immobilized p97. Moreover, the activation of plasminogen by pro-uPA is increased by soluble p97. Because the uPA system plays a crucial role in cell migration, both in cancer and in angiogenesis, we also measured the impact of both endogenous membrane-bound and exogenous p97 on cell migration. The monoclonal antibody L235 (which recognizes a conformational epitope on p97) inhibited the migration of human microvascular endothelial cells (HMECs-1) and of human melanoma SK-MEL-28 cells, indicating that endogenous membrane-bound p97 could be associated with this process. In addition, low concentrations of exogenous p97 (10 and 100 nM) inhibited HMEC-1 and SK-MEL28 cell migration by more than 50%. These results indicate that membrane-bound and soluble p97 affect the migration capacity of endothelial and melanoma cells and suggest that p97 could be involved in the regulation of plasminogen activation by interacting with pro-uPA and plasminogen.
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