Human prostate carcinoma cells express enzymatic activity that converts human plasminogen to the angiogenesis inhibitor, angiostatin

S Gately, P Twardowski, MS Stack, M Patrick, L Boggio… - Cancer Research, 1996 - AACR
… metastatic tumor cellstumors (5) suggests that the antimetastatic factor is an angiogenesis
inhibitor. We now report that PC-3 cells secrete enzymatic activity able to cleave plasminogen

Plasminogen activators in human prostate cancer cell lines and tumors: correlation with the aggressive phenotype

FD Gaylis, HN Keer, MJ Wilson, HC Kwaan… - The Journal of …, 1989 - Elsevier
… and convert the inactive zymogen plasminogen to plasmin. Plasmin is a proteolytic enzyme
… • 18 in addition to its well characterized fibrinolytic action. Degradation of these extracellular …

Plasminogen activator system modulates invasivecapacity and proliferation in prostatic tumor cells

C Festuccia, V Dolo, F Guerra, S Violini, P Muzi… - Clinical & experimental …, 1998 - Springer
… ability of human PRCA cell lines to produce plasmin on their surface and the possible
involvement of plasmin itself in the proliferative response of these cells. … Enzymatic activities were …

The surface of prostate carcinoma DU145 cells mediates the inhibition of urokinase-type plasminogen activator by maspin

R McGowen, H Biliran Jr, R Sager, S Sheng - Cancer research, 2000 - AACR
plasminogen activation primarily by uPA, as shown by two different colorimetric enzyme
activity … 2,B, the SF-CM of DU145 cells was active in converting Glu-plasminogen to plasmin,…

Diversity and modulation of plasminogen activator activity in human prostate carcinoma cell lines

PB Lyon, WA See, Y Xu, MB Cohen - The Prostate, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… pericellular proteolysis via their activity in converting plasminogen to plasmin in the fibrinolytic
… cDNA probes for uPA, tPA, PAI1, and PA12 transcripts, and the cellular enzyme GAPDH …

Tissue plasminogen activator activity in prostatic cancer

A Köller, J Kirchheimer, H Pflüger, BR Binder - European urology, 1984 - karger.com
… produce identical or similar enzymes which are capable of activating the fibrinolytic system
by converting plasminogen to the active protease plasmin. It could be shown that almost all of …

Plasminogen activator and matrix metalloproteinase production and extracellular matrix degradation by rat prostate cancer cells in vitro: correlation with metastatic …

PHA Quax, ACW De Bart, JA Schalken… - … Prostate, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… lines originating from the rat Dunning R-3327 prostate tumor … degradation, enzyme activity,
and mRNA levels of enzymes, … conversion of plasminogen to the active protease plasmin

Tissue factor is the receptor for plasminogen type 1 on 1-LN human prostate cancer cells

M Gonzalez-Gronow, G Gawdi… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2002 - ashpublications.org
… of an enzymatic complex with factor VII/… cell surface–bound TF on 1-LN human prostate
tumor cells with high affinity, and binding is not inhibited by Pg 2. Bound Pg 1 is rapidly converted

Plasminogen activation and cancer

K Danø, N Behrendt, G Høyer-Hansen… - Thrombosis and …, 2005 - thieme-connect.com
… of plasmin involves the pro-enzyme plasminogen, the … It is converted locally to the active
serine protease plasmin by … (42), and by macrophages and neutrophils in prostate cancer (39). …

In vitro regulation of pericellular proteolysis in prostatic tumor cells treated with bombesin

C Festuccia, F Guerra, S D'Ascenzo… - … journal of cancer, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymatic activity was determined following subtraction of … media or cell extracts incubated
without plasminogen from … experiments on plasmin binding to cells we used human plasmin (…