Glycosylation Broadens the Substrate Profile of Membrane Type 1 Matrix Metalloproteinase

Yi I. Wu, Hidayatullah G. Munshi, Ratna Sen, Scott J. Snipas, Guy S. Salvesen, Rafael Fridman, M. Sharon Stack*

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Abstract

Membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) is a collagenolytic enzyme that has been implicated in normal development and in pathological processes such as cancer metastasis. The activity of MT1-MMP is regulated extensively at the post-translational level, and the current data support the hypothesis that MT1-MMP activity is modulated by glycosylation. Enzymatic deglycosylation, site-directed mutagenesis, and lectin precipitation assays were used to demonstrate that MT1-MMP contains O-linked complex carbohydrates on the Thr291, Thr299, Thr300, and/or Ser 301 residues in the proline-rich linker region. MT1-MMP glyco-forms were detected in human cancer cell lines, suggesting that MT1-MMP activity may be regulated by differential glycosylation in vivo. Although the autolytic processing and interstitial collagenase activity of MT1-MMP were not impaired in glycosylation-deficient mutants, cell surface MT1-MMP-catalyzed activation of pro-matrix metalloproteinase-2 (proMMP-2) required proper glycosylation of MT1-MMP. The inability of carbohydrate-free MT1-MMP to activate proMMP-2 was not a result of defective MT1-MMP zymogen activation, aberrant protein stability, or inability of the mature enzyme to oligomerize. Rather, our data support a mechanism whereby glycosylation affects the recruitment of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 (TIMP-2) to the cell surface, resulting in defective formation of the MT1-MMP/TIMP-2/proMMP-2 trimeric activation complex. These data provide evidence for an additional mechanism for post-translational control of MT1-MMP activity and suggest that glycosylation of MT1-MMP may regulate its substrate targeting.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)8278-8289
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume279
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 27 2004

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Cell Biology

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