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From a human melanoma line (MM96), showing some dependence of its rate of growth and cell attachment on serum concentration, sublines were selected for even greater dependence on serum factors. These sublines were used to identify the production of substances by other melanoma cells in culture that would supplement or replace the requirement for serum. Most of the sublines showed higher colony-forming efficiency in medium conditioned by one of several cell types in the presence of a low concentration of serum (2.5%) compared with fresh medium containing a high concentration of serum (10%). The conditioning factor(s) were found to be moderately heat-stable, nonlipophilic, and to be of low molecular weight (less than or greater than 400). Screening of a variety of non-essential low molecular weight nutrients, which have been reported to potentiate the growth of a variety of cell types in low-density culture, was positive for the MM96 sublines only for pyruvate. In particular, L-alanine, L-serine, putrescine and alpha MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone) were ineffective. Despite the problems of comparing conditioned media with fresh medium, a reasonable correlation between the stimulatory effect and the cell content of added 2-oxocarboxylates was apparent. As would be anticipated, MM96 cultures showed a population density-dependent enhancement of growth up to a cell density of 2 to 4 x 10(4) cells cm-2. Further increase in the initial cell density of these cultures led to a decline in growth rate. An important additional observation was that simple dilution of the ingredients of RPMI1640 with phosphate-buffered saline or Hanks' balanced salt solution led to a reversal of growth inhibition accompanying a serum shift-down.
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PMID:The nature of conditioning nutrients for human malignant melanoma cultures. 622 87

A mouse MAb3 50H.19 raised against the human melanoma cell line MEL-T binds to carcinoma cell lines, carcinoma biopsy material, and certain epithelia of normal tissues. It immunoprecipitates two components from carcinoma cell lines, a major component of 22 kd which is O-glycosylated and a minor one of 24 kd which is additionally N-glycosylated. The immunocomplexed 50H.19 antigen exhibits protein kinase activity with substrate-specificity for casein and phosvitin, but not for histones. It phosphorylates on serine and threonine, but not tyrosine residues. Enzyme activity is cyclic AMP-independent.
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PMID:Human tumor cell membrane glycoprotein associated with protein kinase activity. 651 Nov 25

The plasminogen activator from a human melanoma cell line was purified with immunoadsorption as a major step. The cells were cultured in the presence of aprotinin in order to avoid proteolysis. A three-step purification involved adsorption on antibodies to porcine tissue plasminogen activator before chromatographies on arginine-Sepharose and Sephadex G-150. All solvents contained Tween-80 (0.01%) and, except for the last step, aprotinin. The final product had a specific activity of about 220000 IU/mg measured against the WHO urokinase standard. The activator obtained has an apparent Mr of 72000 and consists of single-chain molecules. Evidence was obtained that four different types of activator variants occur. First and known previously, the one-chain form can be proteolytically cleaved into a two-chain form. Secondly, both the one-chain and two-chain molecules exhibit two forms with molecular weight differences of about 3000 (possibly due to carbohydrate differences). Thirdly, the one-chain preparations contain two variants, each constituting about 50% of the material and differing in length by three N-terminal amino acids. Finally, a possible positional microheterogeneity was detected. Digestion with plasmin yields the two-chain form with disulfide-bonded polypeptide chains, 'A' and 'B' (from the N-terminal and C-terminal parts, respectively). At the same time, the variability of the original N terminus is removed. The A chain keeps the two Mr variants (now about 40000 and 37000, respectively). The B chain (Mr about 33000) contains the active site of the molecule, as demonstrated by labelling with [3H]diisopropyl phosphofluoridate, and is homologous to the enzymatically active chains of thrombin, plasmin and other serine proteases. In contrast to these enzymes, the plasminogen activator is enzymatically active in the one-chain form. A speculative explanation for this activity may possibly be the presence of an epsilon-amino group of a lysine residue at a position close to the bond cleaved in the two-chain form.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a melanoma cell plasminogen activator. 668 60

Human natural cell-mediated cytotoxicity is inhibited by macromolecular protease inhibitors. Human plasma alpha 1 antiproteases are more effective than the plant antiproteases lima bean trypsin inhibitor and soybean trypsin inhibitor for reduction of cytotoxicity to the "slow" targets T24 human bladder carcinoma and NKI-1 melanoma. This inhibition of natural cytotoxicity is more readily demonstrable in serum-free medium containing crystalline bovine serum albumin than in medium containing fetal calf serum. Although electrophoretically homogeneous plasma alpha 1 antitrypsin inhibits natural cytotoxicity, partially purified alpha 1 antitrypsin preparations that contain several apha 1 proteins are more inhibitory at equivalent trypsin inhibitory capacities. Partially purified alpha 1 antichymotrypsin with no antitrypsin activity is an extremely potent inhibitor. Thus, it seems likely that several of the plasma antiproteases, including alpha 1 antitrypsin and alpha 1 antichymotrypsin, are capable of influencing natural cytotoxicity. These data indicate that serine-dependent proteases hae a critical role in triggering and/or effecting cell-mediated cytolysis. Furthermore, since alpha 1 antichymotrypsin and alpha 1 antitrypsin are acute phase proteins, the increase in plasma concentration or turnover rates of the proteins could influence natural killer cell activity in vivo.
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PMID:Inhibition of human natural cytotoxicity by macromolecular antiproteases. 697 Jul 80

Incubation of monolayer cultures of human melanoma cells with monkey anti-human melanoma IgG resulted in loss of cellular adhesion. Release of melanoma cells from the culture dish was not the result of cytotoxicity. Antibody-induced cell detachment was partially inhibited by the addition of diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP), and detachment was completely inhibited by the addition of lima bean trypsin inhibitor. Thiol and carboxyl proteinase inhibitors did not block antibody-induced cellular detachment. An IgG dose-dependent increase in DFP-inhibitable caseinolytic activity was demonstrated in the culture medium of melanoma cells incubated with anti-melanoma IgG, but not in those incubated with normal monkey IgG. Medium collected from antibody-treated cell cultures and incubated with protein A-Sepharose to remove IgG caused detachment of melanoma cells in fresh cultures. Preincubation of this conditioned medium from antibody-treated cell cultures with DFP abolished the medium's ability to mediate loss of cellular adhesion. These data suggest that incubation of melanoma cells with immune IgG results in release of a serine proteinase that mediates cellular detachment.
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PMID:Antibody-induced release of cellular proteinases: loss of adhesion of human melanoma cells after binding of anti-melanoma antibody. 703 65

The degradation of tenascin purified from human melanoma cells was examined by treatment with matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and serine proteinases. Among eight different types of proteinases examined, MMP-1, -3, and -7, cathepsin G and leukocyte elastase could digest tenascin, but MMP-2, MMP-9 and thrombin did not. This suggests that tenascin may be readily catabolized by extracellular matrix-degrading proteinases found in the pathophysiological conditions.
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PMID:Susceptibility of tenascin to degradation by matrix metalloproteinases and serine proteinases. 752 86

A human B lymphoblastoid cell line JWCI-L94 secretes an IgM human monoclonal antibody (HuMAb) that reacts with human melanoma cell lines, M14 and M12. To identify the antigenic epitope of this antibody, we screened lambda gt11 expression libraries constructed from M14 and M12. A total of 12 immunoreactive clones were isolated, and their DNA sequences were determined. The only sequence shared by all these clones was alanine-proline (A-P) at the carboxyl (C) terminal. HuMAb L94 reacted not only with C-terminal A-P-containing fusion proteins, but also with the synthetic dipeptide A-P. None of the peptides containing A-P internally or amino terminally reacted to HuMAb L94. Proline or alanine alone had no ability to bind to HuMAb L94. When alanine was replaced by glycine (G-P) or proline (P-P), the binding activity of these peptides was similar to that of A-P. On the other hand, when alanine was replaced by serine, valine, leucine, glutamine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, or hydroxyl proline, the resulting peptide completely lost the antigenic activity of HuMAb L94. These results demonstrate that HuMAb L94 recognizes C-terminal A-P, G-P, or P-P, and that a human antibody can recognize peptides as small as a two-amino acid residue.
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PMID:Peptides with carboxyl-terminal sequence of alanine-proline: detection by a human monoclonal antibody. 753 1

Tumor cells avidly secrete various proteinases, and cascades of proteolytic activation occur around the cells. Therefore, cell surface receptors of tumor cells are under the constant influence of proteinases. In this study, the effects of serine proteinases on integrin-medicated cell-matrix interactions were studied in C32TG and Mewo human melanoma cells. These melanoma cells were pretreated with proteinases and their adhesive properties on various substrata were evaluated by cell adhesion assays. Paradoxically, appropriate cell surface proteolysis enhanced the RGD-sensitive cell adhesion on fibrinogen and vitronectin, but not the RGD-insensitive adhesion on type I collagen or laminin. Pretreatment of these cells with 0.1 to 1 microM of trypsin, chymotrypsin, or plasmin for 30 min at 37 degrees C increased the number of spread cells on fibrinogen and vitronectin by 200-300%. The enhancement of cell spreading was not accompanied by up-regulation of the relevant RGD-sensitive integrin expression. Analysis of the cell surface receptor by GRGDSPK-Sepharose affinity chromatography showed that trypsin treatment did not up-regulate alpha v beta 3 integrin, an RGD-sensitive receptor for fibrinogen and vitronectin in the melanoma cells, nor the induced appearance of novel receptors. Treatment of cells with 100 nM proteinases increased cell binding of both monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against alpha v beta 3 integrin subunits by 70%, but not that of monoclonal antibody against alpha 2, alpha 3, or alpha 6 subunit, indicating that cell surface proteolysis exposed more alpha v beta 3 integrin on the cell surface. These results suggest that exposure of alpha v beta 3 integrin is a part of the mechanisms underlying the serine proteinase-induced enhancement of melanoma cell adhesion on fibrinogen and vitronectin.
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PMID:Cell surface proteolysis by serine proteinases enhances RGD-sensitive melanoma cell adhesion on fibrinogen and vitronectin. 754 29

Binding of the CXC chemokine, melanoma growth stimulatory activity (MGSA), to the class II IL-8 receptor on cells which overexpress this G-protein coupled receptor results in enhanced phosphorylation on serine residues. In experiments described herein, it is demonstrated that MGSA also enhances the tyrosine phosphorylation of two endogenously tyrosine phosphorylated proteins approximately 130 and 70 kDa in size. MGSA treatment (5 nM) of the clonally selected, stably transfected placental cell line, 3ASubE P-3, which overexpresses the class II IL-8 receptor, results in the maximal tyrosine phosphorylation of the 130 kDa protein before 2 min. This enhanced phosphorylation of the 130 kDa protein returns to basal level after a 5 min treatment. Based upon cell fractionation studies, the 130 kDa protein is concentrated in the membrane fraction of the cells. The 70 kDa protein which also shows tyrosine phosphorylation is predominantly cytosolic. The identity of the 130 kDa tyrosine phosphorylated protein was determined by immunoprecipitation and Western blot analyses. In these experiments, the 130 kDa tyrosine phosphorylated protein was shown to immunoprecipitate with antibody to the cas antigen (crk-associated substrate) and with antibody to the p130 tyrosine phosphorylated protein described as undergoing tyrosine phosphorylation in src transformed cells. The data suggest that MGSA binding to the class II IL-8 receptor is associated with tyrosine phosphorylation of p130/cas. The data also suggest that p130 and the cas antigen are the same protein.
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PMID:Melanoma growth stimulatory activity signaling through the class II interleukin-8 receptor enhances the tyrosine phosphorylation of Crk-associated substrate, p130, and a 70-kilodalton protein. 757 68

Integrins are a class of adhesion molecules that depends on divalent cations for proper function. This study examined whether human normal melanocytes and malignant (metastatic) melanocytes with early and late stages of cellular differentiation (G361 and SK-MEL-23, respectively) would differ in integrin-mediated adhesion to fibronectin, laminin, as well as collagens type I and type IV, and whether divalent cations could influence the strength of adhesion ability. Integrin subunit expression was determined by flow cytometry using integrin subunit-specific antibodies as probes. Integrin-specific adhesion was determined using soluble glycine-arginine-glycine-asparagine-serine peptide and integrin subunit-specific antibodies as functional blocking agents. This study shows that both normal and malignant melanocytes adhere to extracellular matrices in a divalent cation-dependent manner, and adhesion strength varies with the cation species. Integrins can be rapidly activated by small alterations in cation concentration, manganese being the most potent. There were marked differences in substrate adhesion between normal melanocytes and metastatic malignant melanoma cells, but these differences were not related to the stage of cellular differentiation. All the three cell types, however, expressed the same integrin subunits at approximately the same levels. This suggests that substrate adhesion of melanocytes and melanoma cells might involve some integrin-independent mechanisms as well. Manganese, in particular, appears to cause adhesion by activating both integrin-dependent and -independent mechanisms.
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PMID:Divalent cations control cell-substrate adhesion and laminin expression in normal and malignant human melanocytes in early and late stages of cellular differentiation. 763 17


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