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  • Title: Thrombospondin (TSP) and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta) promote human A549 lung carcinoma cell plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) production and stimulate tumor cell attachment in vitro.
    Author: Albo D, Arnoletti JP, Castiglioni A, Granick MS, Solomon MP, Rothman VL, Tuszynski GP.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1994 Sep 15; 203(2):857-65. PubMed ID: 8093068.
    Abstract:
    A growing body of evidence has recently implicated TSP and TGF-beta in the process of malignancy, such as tumor cell proliferation, tumor angiogenesis, and metastasis. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate potential mechanisms of TSP and TGF-beta in tumor cell attachment and invasion. Our results indicate that both TSP and TGF-beta promoted tumor cell attachment and spreading in the presence of plasminogen. The mechanism for these effects appeared to be due, in part, to the capacity of TSP and TGF-beta to induce tumor cell production of (PAI-1). PAI-1, which is a natural inhibitor of tumor-cell associated urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) activity, inhibited activation of plasminogen to plasmin in the growth media, thereby preventing plasmin-induced detachment of cells. The TSP-promoted production of PAI-1 could be inhibited not only by anti-TSP antibodies but also by a neutralizing antibody against TGF-beta. These results suggest that TSP by a mechanism involving TGF-beta can promote cell adhesion through stimulation of tumor cell secretion of PAI-1. These data provide evidence that TSP not only has the capacity of functioning as a matrix protein to directly promote cell-substratum adhesion but that TSP can also stimulate cell adhesion and spreading by modulating cell surface protease expression through stimulation of tumor-associated production of PAI-1.
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