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Inhibition of tumor invasion and extracellular matrix degradation by ubenimex (bestatin).

Abstract
We have investigated the effect of the immunomodulator ubenimex (hereafter referred to as bestatin) on the enzymatic degradation of the extracellular matrix by human renal cell carcinoma SN12M cells during the invasive process. The invasion of SN12M cells into reconstituted basement membrane (Matrigel) was inhibited by the presence of bestatin in a concentration-dependent manner. However, bestatin did not have any effect on tumor cell adhesion and migration to the extracellular matrices which may be involved in tumor cell invasion. Bestatin inhibited the degradation of type IV collagen by tumor cells, but not by tumor-conditioned medium (TCM), in a concentration-dependent manner. We also found that bestatin inhibited hydrolysing activities towards substrates of aminopeptidases in SN12M cells. Since bestatin was found to inhibit aminopeptidase activity, the inhibition of tumor invasion by bestatin is likely to be associated with its action as an enzyme inhibitor. Bestatin only slightly inhibited tumor cell plasmin activity, which can lead to the conversion of the latent collagenase to the active form, but this slight effect was not significant. The zymography of TCM from SN12M cells showed that the treatment of tumor cells with bestatin resulted in the disappearance of the 68 kDa type IV collagenase-enzyme level (active form) and slight reduction of the 72 kDa type IV collagenase-enzyme level (latent form). These results indicated that bestatin may inhibit tumor cell invasion through a mechanism involving its inhibitory action on aminopeptidases in tumor cells, suggesting that the aminopeptidase may partly be associated with the conversion of a latent form of type IV procollagenase to an active form or the secretion of the collagenases from tumor cells.
AuthorsJ Yoneda, I Saiki, H Fujii, F Abe, Y Kojima, I Azuma
JournalClinical & experimental metastasis (Clin Exp Metastasis) Vol. 10 Issue 1 Pg. 49-59 (Jan 1992) ISSN: 0262-0898 [Print] Netherlands
PMID1733647 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Culture Media
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Collagen
  • Aminopeptidases
  • Leucine
  • ubenimex
Topics
  • Adult
  • Aminopeptidases (antagonists & inhibitors)
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic (pharmacology)
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell (metabolism, pathology)
  • Cell Adhesion (drug effects)
  • Cell Movement (drug effects)
  • Collagen (metabolism)
  • Culture Media (pharmacology)
  • Enzyme Inhibitors (pharmacology)
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms (metabolism, pathology)
  • Leucine (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology)
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness

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