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1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX, USA
2 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX, USA
3 Department of Veterinary Integrated Biosciences, College of Veeterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Parrish{at}medicine.tamhsc.edu.
Although ischemia has been shown to disrupt cell adhesion, the underlying molecular
mechanism is unknown. In these studies, we adapted a model of ischemia/reperfusion to normal
rat kidney (NRK) cells, examined disruption of the cadherin/catenin complex, and identified a
role for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in ischemia-induced cleavage of cadherins. In NRK
cells, ischemia was induced by applying a thin layer of phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution
supplemented with calcium and magnesium and a layer of mineral oil, which restricts exposure
to oxygen. NRK cells exhibited an extracellular 80 kDa and intracellular 40 kDa E-cadherin
fragments after 4 hr of ischemia, and at 6 hr the expression of full length E-cadherin decreased.
While no fragments of N-cadherin,
-catenin, and
-catenin were observed at any time point, the
detectable levels of these proteins decreased during ischemia. Ischemia was detected by an
increase in pimonidazole adducts, as well as an increase in glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1)
protein expression. Ischemia did not decrease cell number, but there was a decrease in ATP
levels. In addition, there was no evidence of cleaved caspase 3 or 9 during 6 hr of ischemia. The
MMP inhibitors, GM6001 and TAPI-O, inhibited cleavage and/or loss of E- and N-cadherin
protein expression. TIMP-3 and to a lesser extent TIMP-2, but not TIMP-1, inhibits ischemic
cleavage and/or loss of E- and N-cadherin. These results demonstrate that ischemia induces a
selective metalloproteinase-dependent cleavage of E-cadherin and decrease in N-cadherin that is
associated with a disruption of junctional contacts.
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