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From Patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Brilsh Jwm d Cancer (1) 71, 393-396 © 1995 Stockton Press AJI rights r rved 0007-0920/95 $9.00 r Plasminogen activators and inhibitor type 1 in neoplastic colonic tissue from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis CFM Sier', HJM Vloedgraven', G Grifflioen', S Ganesh', FM NagengastP, CBHW Lamers' and HW Verspaget' Departments of Gastroenterologv and Hepatologv., 'Universitv Hospital, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA Leiden, and ThniversitY Hospital, Geert Grooteplein 8, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Summary The plasminogen activation cascade is involved in carcinogenesis. invasion and metastasis. In this study plasminogen activators and their type I inhibitor were evaluated in colonic tissue from 19 patients with familial adenomatous polyposis coli. an inherited disorder characterised by the presence of thousands of adenomatous polyps in the colorectum which predispose to colorectal cancer. The conversion of normal- appearing colonic mucosa to neoplastic tissue in these patients was associated With an increase in urokinase- type plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1. accompanied by a decreased level of tissue-type plasminogen activator. These observations are essentially similar to those found in solitary adenomas and carcinomas of the colon. and illustrate the uniform involvement of the plasminogen activation system in colorectal carcinogenesis. Kevwords: colorectal cancer; familial adenomatous polyposis coli; inhibitor ty-pe 1: plasminogen activator Tumonrgenesis is considered to be a multistep process Patients, materials and methods (Fearon and Vogelstein, 1990). Most human colorectal car- cinomas arise from pre-existing benign adenomatous polyps Patients or adenomas: the adenoma-carcinoma sequence (Morson, 1962). The existence and availability of these recognisable Three invasive carcinomas. one carcinoma in situ, 85 adeno- matous polyps and 31 representative parts premalignant stages provide an opportunity to examine of normal-appear- ing mucosa various human colorectal carcinogenesis and tumour progression. from parts of the colon were included in this study from 19 patients (nine men, ten women: mean Familial adenomatous polyposis coli (FAP) is a dominantly age 26 years) undergoing colectomy inherited autosomal disorder, characterised by an early onset for familial adenomatous polyposis coli. Of all were of multiple adenomatous polyps in the colorecturm, which, samples. adjacent fragments histo- logically evaluated by the to when untreated, will inevitably lead to colorectal car- pathologist confirm the diag- cinoma. nosis and origin of the tissue. All tissues were immediately frozen at -70'C until Cell migration and invasion during tumor progression analysis. involve the temporary degradation of components of the extracellular matrix and basement membrane by proteolytic Tissue extraction and protein concentration enzymes. Plasmin is a proteinase able to catalyse the break- down of a broad range of extracellular matrix proteins. The Tissue specimens were homogenised in I ml of 0.1% (v v) Tween 80-0.1 M Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) per mg wet tissue proteolytic activity of plasmin is controlled by a complex 60 of cascade of interactions involving activators, receptors and as described previously (De Bruin et al., 1987). Protein con- inhibitors (Dan0 et al., 1985; Vassalli et al., 1991). Tissue- centration of the supernatants was determined by the method type and urokinase-type plasminogen activator convert the of Lowry et al. (1951). inactive proenzyme plasminogen into active plasmin. Spora- dic colorectal neoplasms are characterised by an increase in Plasminogen activator activitY assay urokinase-type plasminogen activator and plasminogen acti- Activities of vator inhibitors and a decreased level of tissue-type plas- urokinase-type plasminogen activator and tissue- type plasminogen activator were a minogen activator compared with normal reference tissue as measured by spectro- photometric enzyme activity assay as described previously demonstrated biochemically, immunohistologically and by in et situ hybridisation (De Bruin et al.. 1988; Sier et al., 1991a; (Verheijen al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1987). Pyke et al., 1991a,b). In the present study normal tissue, adenomatous polyps, Enzvme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for and carcinomas were collected from patients operated on plasminogen activators because of familial adenomatous polyposis coli. The contents The ELISA for urokinase-type plasminogen activator was of plasminogen activators and inhibitor type 1 were deter- mined in homogenates of the tissues with several techniques carried out according to Binnema et al. (1986). Rabbit anti- and in adenomas related to the diameter, which was found in urokinase-type plasminogen activator IgG was used as catch- ing antibody and other studies to be correlated with the onset of malignancy affinity-purified goat anti-urokinase-type (Vogelstein et al., 1988; Fearon and Vogelstein. 1990). plasminogen activator IgG as detecting antibody. After washing, an optimal dilution of donkey anti-goat IgG con- jugated with alkaline phosphatase was added (2 h) and p- nitrophenylphosphate was used as substrate. A nine-point Correspondence: HW Verspaget, Departments of Gastroenterology standard curve of high molecular weight urokinase-type plas- and Hepatology. Building 1. C4-P012. University Hospital. PO Box minogen activator (0-3.3 ng ml-') was included in the 9600. 2300 RC Leiden. The Netherlands assay. Received 10 June 1994; revised 8 September 1994; accepted 20 Tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen was measured September 1994 essentially as described by Rijken et al. (1984). Goat anti- Piu *mo acivas i FAP M C~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FMSeer et al tissue-type plasminogen activator was used as catching anti- a 24CJiI 12 body, an anti-tissue-type plasminogen activator-horseradish peroxidase conjugate as second antibody and 3,3',5,5'-tetra- C _ methylbenzidine was used as substrate. Absolute quantities of 200 10 's tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen in the samples were calculated from an standard curve of eight-point tissue-type 160 _ plasminogen activator (0-4 ng ml -). E E _ X 0E 120 activator m ELISA for plasminogen inhibitor txpe I 0L Total plasminogen activator inhibitor type I antigen, i.e. .I- _ 80 4_cm latent, active and complexed, was determined using the Tin- telize PAI-I ELISA (Biopool, UmeA, Sweden) without prior 0- ECL denaturation of the samples as described previously (Sier et 40 _ al., 1991b). In order to increase the sensitivity of the assay, in particular for normal tissue samples, volumes of up to 80 lr le IV IF 6 ° tL 0 were used, resulting in a detection limit of 0.3 ngmlpi as Normal mucosa Adenoma Carcinoma indicated by the manufacturer. n= 15 n=84 n = 4 C Zymographv a) cm Tissue extracts were incubated for 1 h (2% SDS, 37C) to -E O ._ induce activator activity in plasminogen activatorlinhibitor 4- complexes (Levin, 1983). Electrophoresis of the samples took -E _ place on 10% polyacrylamide gels with sodium dodecyl sul- E m phate (SDS-PAGE). Plasminogen activator activities were ._D visualised on agarose underlay gels containing plasminogen E CL and fibrin (Granelli-Piperno and Reich, 1978). E cm ._ Statistical analysis a. 2O Results are given as means ± s.e.m. Differences between group means were tested for significance using Student's t-test with separate variance estimate if the standard devia- I tions were significantly different according to the F-test. Normal mucosa Adenoma Carcinoma Correlations were evaluated using linear regression statistics. n=15 n=84 n=4 Differences and correlations were considered significant when P <0.05. Frwe 1 Activity and antigen of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (a) and tissue-type plasminogen activator (b) in homo- genates of normal-appearing colonic mucosa and neoplastic tissue from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis coli (LI, mIU mg-' protein; , ng mg-' protein) u-PA, urokinase-type Results plasminogen activator; t-PA, tissue-type plasminogen activator. Significance of difference from normal mucosa: *P<0.5; Within the normal colon no significant differences in the **P<0(%05. Significance of difference from adenomatous polyp: plasminogen activator levels were detected in relation to the tP <0.05. location of the tissue. Therefore, the mean value of the whole colon per patient is given (n = 15). The mean plasminogen activator levels, both activity and antigen, in normal and neoplastic colonic tissue from patients Table I Antigen ratio of urokinase-type plasminogen activator and with polyposis coli are shown in Figure 1. Significant differ- tissue-type plasminogen activator, and the level of plasminogen ences were found between normal mucosa and neoplastic activator inhibitor type I in normal-appearing mucosa and neoplastic tissues for both plasminogen activators. Urokinase-type plas- tissue from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis coti minogen activator levels were 2- to 4-fold increased and Normal mucosa A.denoma Carcinoma tissue-type plasminogen activator levels were approximately u-PA,t-PA 0.8±0.1 3.0± 0.7** 1 1.4 3.6t 3-fold decreased in carcinomatous tissue compared with nor- antigen ratio (n= 15) (n= 84) (n=4) mal mucosa. In general. plasminogen activator levels in PAI-I 0.2±0.1 0.3±0.0 1.2±0.3* homogenates of adenomatous polyps were in between normal antigen (n = 3) (n = 24) (n = 4) and carcinomatous tissue values. As expected, the calculated Significance ofdifference from normal mucosa: *P < 0.05: **P < 0.005. ratio
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