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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-4-14
pubmed:abstractText
Transmigration of neutrophils across the endothelium occurs at the cell-cell junctions where the vascular endothelium cadherin (VE cadherin) is expressed. This adhesive receptor was previously demonstrated to be involved in the maintenance of endothelium integrity. We propose that neutrophil transmigration across the vascular endothelium goes in parallel with cleavage of VE cadherin by elastase and cathepsin G present on the surface of neutrophils. This hypothesis is supported by the following lines of evidence. 1) Proteolytic fragments of VE cadherin are released into the culture medium upon adhesion of neutrophils to endothelial cell monolayers; 2) conditioned culture medium, obtained after neutrophil adhesion to endothelial monolayers, cleaves the recombinantly expressed VE cadherin extracellular domain; 3) these cleavages are inhibited by inhibitors of elastase; 4) VE cadherin fragments produced by conditioned culture medium or by exogenously added elastase are identical as shown by N-terminal sequencing and mass spectrometry analysis; 5) both elastase- and cathepsin G-specific VE cadherin cleavage patterns are produced upon incubation with tumor necrosis factor alpha-stimulated and fixed neutrophils; 6) transendothelial permeability increases in vitro upon addition of either elastase or cathepsin G; and 7) neutrophil transmigration is reduced in vitro in the presence of elastase and cathepsin G inhibitors. Our results suggest that cleavage of VE cadherin by neutrophil surface-bound proteases induces formation of gaps through which neutrophils transmigrate.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antigens, CD, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CTSG protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cadherins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cathepsin G, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cathepsins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Culture Media, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Culture Media, Conditioned, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pancreatic Elastase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Serine Endopeptidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/cadherin 5
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
278
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
14002-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Antigens, CD, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-CHO Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cadherins, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cathepsin G, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cathepsins, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Culture Media, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Culture Media, Conditioned, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Endothelium, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Leukocytes, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Microscopy, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Neutrophils, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Pancreatic Elastase, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser..., pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12584200-Umbilical Veins
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of proteases involved in the proteolysis of vascular endothelium cadherin during neutrophil transmigration.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, 41 rue Jules Horowitz, 38027 Grenoble Cedex, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't