Human endometrial matrix metalloproteinase-2, a putative menstrual proteinase. Hormonal regulation in cultured stromal cells and messenger RNA expression during the menstrual cycle.
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Irwin, J C
RESUMO
Proteinases are likely effectors of endometrial menstrual breakdown. We have investigated proteinase production by human endometrial stromal cells subjected in vitro to progesterone (P) withdrawal, the physiologic stimulus for menstruation. Culture media of cells exposed to estradiol, P, or estradiol plus P had low levels of proteolytic activity similar to cultures maintained in the absence of steroids. P withdrawal, or addition of RU486 to P-treated cultures, stimulated proteinase secretion. The stromal cell proteinase was characterized by gelatin zymography, inhibitor profile, and organomercurial activation, as a metalloproteinase present mostly as a 66-kD proenzyme with lower levels of a 62-kD active form. The P withdrawal-induced metalloproteinase was identified as matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) by Western blotting. The increase of MMP-2 induced by P withdrawal was associated with the metalloproteinase-dependent breakdown of stromal cultures, involving dissolution of extracellular matrix and dissociation of stromal cells. Northern analysis showed the differential expression of MMP-2 mRNA in late secretory phase endometrium. These findings are consistent with the involvement of stromal cell-derived MMP-2 in the proteolysis of extracellular matrix promoting cyclic endometrial breakdown and the onset of menstrual bleeding.
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