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From the Departments of Pathology* and Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo; the Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa; and Daiichi Fine Chemical Company, Limited, Takaoka, Japan
ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinases) are multifunctional molecules involved in cell-cell fusion, cell adhesion, membrane protein shedding, and proteolysis. In the present study, we examined the mRNA expression of 13 different ADAM species with putative metalloproteinase activity in human astrocytic tumors, nonneoplastic brain tissues, and other intracranial tumors by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, and found that prototype membrane-anchored ADAM12 (ADAM12m) is predominantly expressed in glioblastomas. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction indicated that the expression level of ADAM12m is remarkably at least 5.7-fold higher in glioblastomas (n = 16) than in nonneoplastic brain tissues (n = 6), low grade (n = 7) and anaplastic astrocytic tumors (n = 9) (P < 0.05 for each group), and intracranial neurinomas (n = 5) (P < 0.01). In situ hybridization showed that glioblastoma cells are responsible for the gene expression. By immunohistochemistry, ADAM12m was predominantly immunolocalized on the cell membranes of glioblastoma cells. Immunoblotting analysis demonstrated that ADAM12m is expressed as an activated N-glycosylated form of 
90 kd in glioblastoma tissues. There was a direct correlation between the mRNA expression levels of ADAM12m and proliferative activity (MIB1-positive cell index) of gliomas (r = 0.791, P < 0.0001; n = 32). Protein bands consistent with the soluble form of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor, a substrate of ADAM12m, were observed by immunoblotting in glioblastoma samples with the ADAM12m expression, and inhibited by treatment with ADAM inhibitor of the glioblastomas. These data demonstrate for the first time that among the 13 different ADAM species, ADAM12m is highly expressed in human glioblastomas, and suggest the possibility that ADAM12m plays a role in the prominent proliferation of the glioblastomas through shedding of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor.
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