Higher expression and activity of metalloproteinases is associated with HPV presence in human cervical carcinomas cell lines / Associação entre alta expressão e atividade de metaloproteinases e presença de HPV em linhagens de carcinomas cervicais humanos

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2006

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Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) -2, -9, and MT1-MMP are required for basement membrane degradation in cervical carcinoma. We evaluated the expression and activity of MMPs and their inhibitors RECK and TIMP-2 in three human invasive cervical carcinoma cell lines. Two HPV-16- positive cell lines (SiHa and CaSki), HPV-negative cell line (C33A) were cultured either onto type-I collagen gel, Matrigel or plastic, in order to recreate their three-dimensional growth environment and evaluate the growth and invasion of the cells and expression of these genes using quantitative real-time PCR (Q-PCR). We also analyzed the gelatinolytic activity of MMP-2 and -9 by zymography. We found that the growth curves carcinoma cells are decreased and cells morphology are modified in ECM substrate. HPV-positive cell lines expressed higher levels of MMP-2, MT1-MMP and TIMP-2 than the HPV negative cell line. In addition, MMP-9 was expressed at very low levels in both HPV-negative and HPV-positive cell lines. We also observed that the expression of the RECK gene is higher in CaSki cells, being associated with pro-MMP-2 activity. The Matrigel substrate influence MMP-2 expression for SiHa and CaSki cells. On the other hand, we found that type-I collagen gel, but not Matrigel, can enhance pro-MMP-2 activity in all cell lines. Our results suggest that the presence of HPV is related to increased expression of MMP -2, MT1-MMP and TIMP-2 and pro-MMP-2 activity in HPV-positive cells than in HPV-negative cells.

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human cervical carcinoma gene expression carcinoma cervical humano expressão gênica human papillomavirus papilomavirus humano metalloproteinase metaloproteinases

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