Abstract：
:Proteolytic cleavage of extracellular matrix (ECM) is a critical feature of tumor cell invasion, and affects cancer cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, and migration. Malignant cells secrete most proteases as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic cleavage for activation, and proteolytic activity is elevated in close proximity to these cells. Therefore, local activity rather than protease concentration determines ECM proteolysis. Precise quantification of local proteolytic activity, functional investigation, and high resolution imaging of morphological ECM alterations have proven difficult. In this study, we present a novel approach for measuring proteolytic activity in the microenvironment of cells by using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Amelanotic melanoma cells (A7-clone) were seeded on fluorescent gelatin or collagen-IV coatings. Proteolysis reduced fluorescence of these coatings. Fluorescence microscopy (FM) in combination with AFM was used to maneuver the AFM-tip to tumor cell induced proteolytic spots. AFM enabled nanoscale volume measurement, three-dimensional reconstruction of single proteins and demonstrated that ECM cleavage is restricted to the proteolytic microenvironment of cancer cells. This method detected significant decreases in molecular weight of protein clusters (-76.6%), matrix volume (-46.6%), and height (-38.1%) between intact and proteolyzed gelatin. Similar parameter changes were demonstrated without FM, by AFM-scanning gelatin in close proximity to invasive cells. Furthermore, AFM depicted significantly stronger local degradation of gelatin than collagen-IV by A7-cells. Taken together, AFM allows specific quantification and imaging of local proteolytic processes at a nanometer level, thus providing a unique method for the functional evaluation of invasiveness and metastatic potential of tumor cells in small scale samples.
journal_name
J Cell Physioljournal_title
Journal of cellular physiologyauthors
Kusick S,Bertram H,Oberleithner H,Ludwig Tdoi
10.1002/jcp.20328keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2005-09-01 00:00:00pages
767-74issue
3eissn
0021-9541issn
1097-4652journal_volume
204pub_type
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