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(American Journal of Pathology. 1998;153:945-954.)
© 1998 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Differential Expression and Origin of Membrane-Type 1 and 2 Matrix Metalloproteinases (MT-MMPs) in Association with MMP2 Activation in Injured Human Livers

From the Detoxication and Tissue Repair Unit, INSERM U456, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP2) activation is associated with basement membrane remodeling that occurs in injured tissues and during tumor invasion. The newly described membrane-type MMPs (MT-MMPs) form a family of potential MMP2 activators. We investigated the localization and steady-state levels of MT1-MMP and MT2-MMP mRNA, compared with those of MMP2 and tissue inhibitor of MMP-2 in 22 hepatocellular carcinomas, 12 liver metastases from colonic adenocarcinomas, 13 nontumoral samples from livers with metastases, 10 benign tumors, and 6 normal livers. MMP2 activation was analyzed by zymography in the same series. The expression of MT1-MMP mRNA and the activation of MMP-2 were increased in hepatocellular carcinomas, metastases, and cholestatic nontumoral samples. MT2-MMP mRNA was rather stable in the different groups. MT1-MMP mRNA levels, but not MT2-MMP mRNA, correlated with MMP-2 and tissue inhibitor of MMP-2 mRNA levels and with MMP2 activation. In situ hybridization showed that MT1-MMP mRNA was expressed in stromal cells, and MT2-MMP mRNA was principally located in both hepatocytes and biliary epithelial cells. Consistently, freshly isolated hepatocytes expressed only MT2-MMP mRNA, and culture-activated hepatic stellate cells showed high levels of MT1-MMP mRNA. These results indicate that in injured livers, MMP2 activation is related to a coordinated high expression of MMP2, tissue inhibitor of MMP-2, and MT1-MMP. Furthermore, the finding of a preferential expression of MT2-MMP in hepatocytes, together with our previous demonstration that the activation of stellate cell-derived MMP2 in co-culture requires interactions with hepatocytes (Am J Pathol 1997, 150:51–58), suggests that parenchymal cells might play a pivotal role in the MMP2 activation process.

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