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Query: EC:3.4.24.3 (collagenase)
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The presence of collagen in lung is fundamental in normal lung structure and function. Methods have been developed to examine human fetal and adult lung collagen with respect to its composition and synthesis. The second trimester fetal lung has a large number of cells per unit lung mass (36.6 plus or minus 2.7 mug DNA/mg dry wt) and relatively small amounts of collagen (17.0 plus or minus 5.3 mug collagen/mg dry wt). The number of cells per unit lung mass in the adult lung (11.1 plus or minus 3.4 mug DNA/mg dry wt) is 30% of the number of cells in the fetal lung, but the adult has 11 times more collagen (196 plus or minus 25 mug collagen/mg dry wt). The composition of fetal lung collagen can be partially characterized by extraction with salt at neutral pH, acetic acid, or guanidine. The extracted chains, representing 10% of the total lung collagen, chromatograph as alpha1 and alpha2 chains, each with a mol wt of 100,000 and an animo acid composition characteristic for collagen but not specific for lung. Short-term explant cultures of fetal and adult lung synthesize alpha chains which can be isolated by ion-exchange chromatography. These chains, representing 30-40% of the total collagen synthesized by the explants, coelectrophorese with extracted collagen chains on acrylamide gels: they are destroyed by clostridial collagenase and they have a mol wt of 100,000. Although the composition of the collagen synthesized by these explants can be only partially characterized, the rate of synthesis of both collagen and noncollagen protein can be quantitated. In fetal lung, 4.0 plus or minus 1.2% of the amino acids incorporated into protein per hour are incorporated into collagen. In normal adult lung, this percentage (4.2 plus or minus 0.9%) is remarkably similar. These values are almost identical to the relative rate of collagen synthesis in rabbit lung in the same age range. This technology should be applicable to answer specific questions regarding collagen synthesis and degradation in human lung disease.
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PMID:Collagen in the human lung. Quantitation of rates of synthesis and partial characterization of composition. 16 49

In the present study the potential of minocycline, a semisynthetic tetracycline that inhibits collagenase activity in vivo, as an adjuvant to standard anticancer therapies was explored in vitro and in vivo. In EMT-6 cells, minocycline proved to be only minimally cytotoxic, producing a 50% cell kill at concentrations of 132 and 220 microM in normally oxygenated and hypoxic cells, respectively, after 24 h exposure to the drug. In vitro, there appeared to be no interaction between minocycline and cisplatin (CDDP), melphalan, 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide, or radiation. In tumor-cell survival studies using the FSaIIC murine fibrosarcoma, short-term treatment with minocycline (5 x 5 mg/kg given over 24 h) was only minimally cytotoxic and did not alter the tumor response to a range of radiation doses. However, when minocycline (5 x 5 mg/kg given over 24 h) was added to treatment with cyclophosphamide, there was a 4-fold increase in FSaIIC tumor-cell killing across the dose range of cyclophosphamide doses tested, whereas the killing of bone marrow granulocyte macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-GM) remained unchanged. The Lewis lung carcinoma was used to assess the response of both the primary tumor and metastatic lung disease to treatment with minocycline (14 x 5 mg/kg) given alone or in combination with several cytotoxic anticancer drugs or with radiation delivered locally to the primary tumor. Of the various therapies tested, minocycline proved to be especially effective as an addition to treatment with cyclophosphamide both in increasing the response of the primary tumor and in reducing the number of lung metastases. The tumor growth delay produced by melphalan, radiation, Adriamycin, and bleomycin was also increased by the addition of minocycline to these therapies. These results indicate that minocycline given in clinically achievable doses may be an effective addition to some standard therapeutic regimens and that the mechanism of modulation by minocycline is likely to involve an effect of the drug on the host and not its direct interaction with other therapeutic modalities at the level of the tumor cell.
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PMID:Minocycline in combination with chemotherapy or radiation therapy in vitro and in vivo. 150 76

Ten patients with rheumatoid arthritis were evaluated by bronchoalveolar lavage. Five patients (group I) had interstitial lung disease by physiological and radiographic criteria, whereas five (group II) had no evidence of lung disease. Lavage fluid from four of the five group I patients contained an active collagenase which by inhibitory profile and substrate specificity appeared to be of neutrophil origin. None of the group II patients demonstrated lavage fluid collagenase. Treatment of lavage fluid with trypsin failed to uncover latent collagenase activity in either group, suggesting that the collagenase is present entirely in an active form. These findings parallel those observed in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and suggest a potential pathogenetic role for collagenase in rheumatoid interstitial lung disease.
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PMID:Neutrophil collagenase in rheumatoid interstitial lung disease. 303 Oct 3

Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) and collagenase inhibitory activity were measured in the sputum from nine subjects with chronic bronchitis before and five days after treatment with corticosteroid (oral prednisolone, 40 mg daily). The mean sputum TIMP concentrations for eight of the nine subjects increased from 3.1 (SD 0.87) micrograms/ml to 5.8 (1.9) micrograms/ml (2p less than 0.005). Similarly, the mean collagenase inhibitory activity in the sputum of eight of the nine subjects increased from 1.53 (1.1) U/ml to 2.69 (0.92) U/ml (2p less than 0.05). The TIMP concentrations in sputum exceeded the collagenase inhibitory activity, suggesting that a proportion of the TIMP was inactive. TIMP inactivity was not due to prior complexing with enzyme since the molecular weight of sputum TIMP (27,500) was similar to that described for the purified protein (28,000-28,500). Preliminary studies showed the presence of TIMP in bronchoalveolar lavage samples (range of six specimens 0.45 ng/ml-2.1 micrograms/ml, median 53 ng/ml). Collagenase inhibitory activity was detected in only two of these six lavage samples, suggesting that the TIMP was totally inactive in the other four samples. The significance of the metalloproteinase-inhibitor balance in the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease requires further study.
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PMID:Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagenase inhibitory activity in lung secretions from patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis: effect of corticosteroid treatment. 378 6

Tissue proteolytic enzymes are currently believed to be critical to the pathogenesis of panacinar emphysema. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (Polys) have several enzymes including elastase and cathepsin G in their azurophil granules. They have collagenase in their specific granules. We have found that this collagenase is doubly latent. It has the lysosomal type of latency that depends on the impermeability of the unit membrane that surrounds each specific granule. In addition it has a latency that is converted to activity by proteolytic enzymes. The cathepsin G of the azurophil granule is a potent activator of this latent collagenase once the collagenase is released from its membrane dependent latency. Thus latency of enzymes, the nature of the latency and accessibility of the latent enzymes to activating mechanisms must all be taken into account in any analysis of their contribution to pathogenesis of local lung disease. Equally important is that fact that polys are not a prominent cellular component of normal lung. Polys must be attracted to the lung by chemotactic peptides. These peptides must be released by the interaction of inflammatory stimuli, such as smoke particles, with complement components or they must be provided by other sources. The hypothesis that lung damage in panacinar emphysema is mediated by polys and their proteases is attractive and suggestive evidence supporting this is available. However, more evidence that takes into full account the cell biology of the proteases any poly turnover in the lung are needed to extend the hypothesis and to form a rational basis for therapeutic and prophylactic measures.
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PMID:Neutral proteases of human polymorphonuclear granulocytes: putative mediators of pulmonary damage. 625 Aug 11

Rabbit alveolar macrophages (AM) induced by complete Freund's adjuvant have been used as a model for activated AM. We studied the effects of in vivo and in vitro corticosteroid on collagenase release and spontaneous formation of multinucleated giant cells (MGC) in culture with this system. Dexamethasone 10- through 10(-7) molar concentration in vitro inhibited both collagenase release and spontaneous AM fusion. Daily in vivo administration of dexamethasone to as much as 0.128 mg/kg similarly suppressed these AM functions in culture. These studies show that in vitro and in vivo corticosteroids inhibit collagenase release and MGC formation of rabbit AM in culture in doses comparable to those used therapeutically in humans. This model may be useful in examining the mechanisms of cell fusion and functions of MGC in granulomatous lung disease.
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PMID:Interstitial collagenase secretion and giant cell formation from rabbit alveolar macrophages. Effects of dexamethasone. 629 24

Hydrolytic enzymes are major constituents of alveolar macrophages, which in recent years have been shown to be involved in many aspects of the inflammatory response in addition to their better-known role in bactericidal processes. This review summarizes the general properties, physiologic function, cellular physiology, and clinical associations of four important hydrolytic enzymes of alveolar macrophages--lysozyme, elastase, plasminogen activator, and collagenase--with particular attention to the relationship of these enzymes to the pathophysiology of lung disease. The information reviewed shows that much is known about the biochemistry of these enzymes, that each is produced in greater quantity when alveolar macrophages are stimulated, that each has a distinctive physiologic role in the inflammatory process, and that they function as part of the overall pulmonary antibacterial defense system. Studies of the pathophysiologic effects consequent to the elaboration of excess quantities of these enzymes by stimulated macrophages show that some hydrolytic enzymes injure the lung by attacking normal as well as inflammatory tissue sites that are susceptible to degradation. Such damage is normally limited by enzymatic inhibitors, like alpha-antitrypsin, but the inactivating capacity of the inhibitors can be overwhelmed and in these instances excess enzyme contributes to the development of emphysema. This newer understanding of the pathophysiologic role of hydrolytic enzymes may lead to therapeutically beneficial methods for modulating the pulmonary inflammatory response.
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PMID:Hydrolytic enzymes of alveolar macrophages. 631 90

Fibroblast migration, proliferation, extracellular matrix protein synthesis and degradation are the key events in various biological and pathological processes in pulmonary fibrosis. In addition, biopsy specimens from the lungs of patients with pulmonary fibrosis show increased numbers of mast cells which have metachromatic granules containing heparin, histamine and proteases. Little is known about how these products influence pulmonary fibrosis. In the present study, we investigated the effect of heparin and related glycosaminoglycans on PDGF-induced lung fibroblast proliferation and chemotactic response in vitro. In addition, we examined the effect of heparin on both the induction of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and MMPs activity in lung fibroblasts in vitro. Heparin, de-N-sulphated heparin but not heparan sulphate inhibited PDGF-induced lung fibroblast proliferation. In contrast, only heparin inhibited PDGF-stimulated human lung fibroblast chemotaxis. Negatively charged poly-L-glutamic acid had no effect on either fibroblast proliferation or chemotaxis. Thus the negative charge alone cannot account for the ant-proliferative and anti-chemotactic effects of heparin. Furthermore, heparin and heparan sulphate also had no inhibitory effect on induction of MMPS, including MMP-1 (interstitial collagenase), MMP-2 (gelatinase A) and MMP-9 (gelatinase B). Only heparin inhibited both MMP-1 and MMP-2/MMP-9 activity. Additionally, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase type 1 (TIMP-1) and type 2 (TIMP-2) inhibited PDGF-stimulated human lung fibroblast chemotaxis. The ability of heparin to inhibit fibroblast chemotaxis may account for the inhibitory effect of heparin on MMP activity. The above results suggested that heparin and related glycosaminoglycans differentially regulate PDGF-induced lung fibroblast proliferation, chemotaxis and MMPs activity and further that these effects may have a key role in extracellular matrix remodeling in inflammatory lung disease.
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PMID:Effect of heparin and related glycosaminoglycan on PDGF-induced lung fibroblast proliferation, chemotactic response and matrix metalloproteinases activity. 1095 81

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disorder characterized by fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix accumulation. However, studies on fibroblast growth rate and collagen synthesis have given contradictory results. Here we analyzed fibroblast growth rate by a formazan-based chromogenic assay; fibroblast apoptosis by in situ end labeling (ISEL) and propidium iodide staining; percent of alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) positive cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorter; and alpha1-(I) collagen, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1, collagenase-1, gelatinases A and B, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1, -2, -3, and -4 expression by reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction in fibroblasts derived from IPF and control lungs. Growth rate was significantly lower in IPF fibroblasts compared with controls (13.3 +/- 38.5% versus 294.6 +/- 57%, P < 0.0001 at 13 d). Conversely, a significantly higher percentage of apoptotic cells was observed in IPF-derived fibroblasts (ISEL: 31.9 +/- 7.0% versus 15.5 +/- 7.6% from controls; P < 0.008). alpha-SMA analysis revealed a significantly higher percentage of myofibroblasts in IPF samples (62.8 +/- 25.2% versus 14.8 +/- 11.7% from controls; P < 0.01). IPF fibroblasts were characterized by an increase in pro-alpha1-(I) collagen, TGF-beta1, gelatinase B, and all TIMPs' gene expression, whereas collagenase-1 and gelatinase A expression showed no differences. These results suggest that fibroblasts from IPF exhibit a profibrotic secretory phenotype, with lower growth rate and increased spontaneous apoptosis.
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PMID:Fibroblasts from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and normal lungs differ in growth rate, apoptosis, and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases expression. 1135 Aug 29

Oxidative stress may increase lung permeability by up-regulation of matrix-metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), a type-IV collagenase that can disrupt alveolar basement membranes. We have compared a marker of oxidative stress (protein carbonyl residues) with levels of MMP-9 and its inhibitor, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1), in bronchoalveolar lavage samples from newborn babies. Bronchoalveolar lavage samples (n = 87, two from each time point) were taken in the first 6 postnatal days from 41 ventilated babies: 18 of <29 wk gestation, 10 of 29-36 wk, 9 term with persistent fetal circulation, and 4 term without lung disease. Respiratory disease severity at the time of bronchoalveolar lavage was assessed using the arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio. One sample from each time point was used for the measurement of MMP-9 by zymography and TIMP-1 by ELISA. The second sample was used to measure carbonyl group concentrations, also using an ELISA. Correlations were calculated between protein carbonyls, arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio, and MMP-9 and TIMP-1 concentrations. Significant correlations were found between carbonyl concentrations and arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio (r = -0.325, p = 0.0031, n = 81), MMP-9 (r = 0.331, p < 0.0029, n = 79), and TIMP-1 (r = 0.436, p < 0.0001, n = 87). Worsening respiratory disease in newborn babies is associated with increased carbonyl concentrations in neonatal bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and these correlated with MMP-9 and TIMP-1 levels. Increased oxidative stress may damage the lung by increasing type-IV collagenase activity, causing disruption of the extracellular matrix.
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PMID:Oxidative stress and increased type-IV collagenase levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from newborn babies. 1142 Apr 15


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