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Increased expression of extracellular matrix proteins and decreased expression of matrix proteases after serial passage of glomerular mesangial cells

HW Schnaper, JB Kopp, AC Poncelet, SC Hubchak, WG Stetler-Stevenson, PE Klotman and HK Kleinman
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611-3008, USA.

The cellular events causing pathological extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation in vivo are not well understood. Prolonged serial passage of several cell types in culture leads to increased production of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, but the mechanism for these putative fibrotic changes is not known. Here, human fetal glomerular mesangial cells were subjected to serial passage (P) in culture and the expression of ECM proteins, proteases and protease inhibitors was comprehensively evaluated. From P11 through P14, a series of phenotypic changes occurred. Steady-state expression of mRNA for alpha 1 chains of type III and type IV (but not type I) collagen, and for laminin beta 1 and gamma 1, increased 2- to 8-fold, while expression of mRNA for interstitial collagenase (MMP-1) and gelatinase A (MMP-2) virtually ceased. Expression of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) mRNA also decreased markedly. Expression of mRNA for the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1, and of the smaller of two mRNA species for the PA inhibitor PAI-1, ceased by P14. There was a switch in expression of the two species of TIMP-2 mRNA: whereas the ratio of signal intensity comparing the 3.5 kb mRNA species to the 1.0 kb species was 5:1 up to P11, it was reversed (1:5) at P14 and later. Serial passage also led to changes in protein expression, with increased type IV collagen and laminin, but decreased interstitial collagenase and gelatinase A. The cells showed a progressive increase in staining for type IV collagen. These findings define the appearance of a matrix-accumulating phenotype in later-passage mesangial cells. Matrix expansion in vivo has been associated with increased transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta synthesis; the cells were found to show at least 5-fold increased expression of TGF-beta 1 mRNA from P8 to P16. However, treatment of P9 or P10 cells with graded doses of TGF-beta 1 increased expression of both collagen IV and gelatinase A mRNA and did not alter the ratio of signal intensity for TIMP-2 mRNA species. Thus, assumption of a matrix-accumulating phenotype by these cultured fetal glomerular mesangial cells is not accelerated by exogenous TGF-beta. These data describe an in vitro model of mesangial cell matrix turnover in which matrix accumulation could result from a concerted increase in ECM synthesis and decrease in ECM degradation.
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