Phosphoglycerate kinase acts in tumour angiogenesis as a disulphide reductase

Angelina J. Lay, Xing-Mai Jiang, Oliver Kisker, Evelyn Flynn, Anne Underwood, Rosemary Condron and Philip J. Hogg ()
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Angelina J. Lay: Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, School of Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital
Xing-Mai Jiang: Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, School of Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital
Oliver Kisker: Children's Hospital
Evelyn Flynn: Children's Hospital
Anne Underwood: CSIRO Molecular Science
Rosemary Condron: La Trobe University
Philip J. Hogg: Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, School of Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital

Nature, 2000, vol. 408, issue 6814, 869-873

Abstract: Abstract Disulphide bonds in secreted proteins are considered to be inert because of the oxidizing nature of the extracellular milieu. An exception to this rule is a reductase secreted by tumour cells that reduces disulphide bonds in the serine proteinase plasmin1,2. Reduction of plasmin initiates proteolytic cleavage in the kringle 5 domain and release of the tumour blood vessel inhibitor angiostatin3. New blood vessel formation or angiogenesis is critical for tumour expansion and metastasis4,5. Here we show that the plasmin reductase isolated from conditioned medium of fibrosarcoma cells is the glycolytic enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase6. Recombinant phosphoglycerate kinase had the same specific activity as the fibrosarcoma-derived protein. Plasma of mice bearing fibrosarcoma tumours contained several-fold more phosphoglycerate kinase, as compared with mice without tumours. Administration of phosphoglycerate kinase to tumour-bearing mice caused an increase in plasma levels of angiostatin, and a decrease in tumour vascularity and rate of tumour growth. Our findings indicate that phosphoglycerate kinase not only functions in glycolysis but is secreted by tumour cells and participates in the angiogenic process as a disulphide reductase.

Date: 2000
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