Concanavalin-A-induced autophagy biomarkers requires membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase intracellular signaling in glioblastoma cells.
Jonathan Pratt, René Roy, Borhane Annabi
Index: Glycobiology 22(9) , 1245-55, (2012)
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Abstract
Pre-clinical trials for cancer therapeutics support the anti-neoplastic properties of the lectin from Canavalia ensiformis (Concanavalin-A, ConA) in targeting apoptosis and autophagy in a variety of cancer cells. Given that membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP), a plasma membrane-anchored matrix metalloproteinase, is a glycoprotein strongly expressed in radioresistant and chemoresistant glioblastoma that mediates pro-apoptotic signalling in brain cancer cells, we investigated whether MT1-MMP could also signal autophagy. Among the four lectins tested, we found that the mannopyranoside/glucopyranoside-binding ConA, which is also well documented to trigger MT1-MMP expression, increases autophagic acidic vacuoles formation as demonstrated by Acridine Orange cell staining. Although siRNA-mediated MT1-MMP gene silencing effectively reversed ConA-induced autophagy, inhibition of the MT1-MMP extracellular catalytic function with Actinonin or Ilomastat did not. Conversely, direct overexpression of the recombinant Wt-MT1-MMP protein triggered proMMP-2 activation and green fluorescent protein-microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 puncta indicative of autophagosomes formation, while deletion of MT1-MMP's cytoplasmic domain disabled such autophagy induction. ConA-treated U87 cells also showed an upregulation of BNIP3 and of autophagy-related gene members autophagy-related protein 3, autophagy-related protein 12 and autophagy-related protein 16-like 1, where respective inductions were reversed when MT1-MMP gene expression was silenced. Altogether, we provide molecular evidence supporting the pro-autophagic mechanism of action of ConA in glioblastoma cells. We also highlight new signal transduction functions of MT1-MMP within apoptotic and autophagic pathways that often characterize cancer cell responses to chemotherapeutic drugs.
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