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Proliferation of a human epidermal tumor cell line stimulated by urokinase

JC Kirchheimer, J Wojta, G Christ and BR Binder

Several tumor cells secrete significantly increased amounts of the plasminogen activator urokinase, a trypsinlike serine protease, whose biological function in tumor biology is unclear. In this study we report that cells of the human epidermal tumor cell line CCL 20.2 express about 80,000 high-affinity urokinase receptors per cell that bind active as well as diisopropylfluorophosphate-treated high- molecular-weight (HMW) urokinase. Low-molecular-weight (LMW) urokinase is not bound to the receptor. Occupation of these receptors by active HMW urokinase stimulates cell proliferation independently in the presence of plasminogen in the culture medium. LMW urokinase has again no effect on cell proliferation. Calculated on a molar basis, this effect is about 28% of that of epidermal growth factor. Active HMW urokinase might therefore provide an autocrine receptor-mediated growth- promoting mechanism for tumor cells similar to those described for other growth factors.

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