MMP15 (matrix metallopeptidase 15 (membrane-inserted))

2012-10-01   Emiko Ito , Ikuo Yana , Nariaki Matsuura 

Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Health Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Identity

HGNC
LOCATION
16q21
LOCUSID
ALIAS
MMP-15,MT2-MMP,MT2MMP,MTMMP2,SMCP-2
FUSION GENES

DNA/RNA

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Description

This gene can be found on chromosome16 at location: 58028573-58163296.

Transcription

The DNA sequence contains 10 exons and the transcript length: 3530 bp translated to a 699 residues protein.

Proteins

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Description

MT2-MMP belongs to which consist a gene family over 25 different members in humans (refer to MT1-MMP).

Expression

Expression of MT2-MMP has been reported in many cancers, such as glioblastomas, ovarian, urothelial, and breast. In addition, MT2-MMP is involved in endothelial tubulogenesis, malignant conversion of keratinocytes, and is an antiapoptotic factor.
Both MT2-MMP and MT3-MMP were detected predominantly at the interface between the epithelium and substantia propia in mice intracornea infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. On the other hand, MT1-MMP was mainly expressed at epithelium in the same tissue (Dong et al., 2000). During pregnancy, MT2-MMP is expressed in the invaded cytotrophoblasts where both MT1-MMP and gelatinase A are extensively colocalized (Bjørn et al., 2000).
Over all, MT2-MMP may plays an important and distinct role from MT1-MMP in normal physiological processes.

Localisation

Plasma membrane.

Function

In a previous study with a cell line established from MT1-MMP gene knocked-out mice, MT2-MMP has been suggested to contribute alternatively to cell invasion through fibrin rich matrices (Hotary et al., 2002).
Like as MT1-MMP, MT2-MMP may also play some role in MMP-2 activation in microenvironment with TIMP-2 involvement (Morrison et al., 2001; Morrison and Overall, 2006).
In corporation with the enzymatic action of MT1-MMP, MT2-MMP can contribute to remodel basement membrane (Hotary et al., 2000; Hotary et al., 2006).

Development
1) Branching morphogenesis
MT2-MMP has been shown to be induced to the epithelia in migration, thereby speculated to be involved in branching morphogenesis of salivery gland (Harunaga et al., 2011), and submandibular gland (Rebustini et al., 2009).
2) Cardia valve development in endocardial cushion
Cardiac valve is constituted by tissue-specific fibroblasts originated from endocardial cushion through EMT. It has been demonstrated that MT2-MMP, which may play a key role in the valve formation, is likely expressed at the period of EMT by Snail1-related signal (Tao et al., 2011).
3) Placenta development (chorionic villus)
It has been demonstrated by separate research groups that MT2-MMP may play a important role in placental labyrinth formation at the period of embryogenesis or in menstrual cycle (Szabova et al., 2010; Plaisier et al., 2006). During the placenta development, MT2-MMP is induced at trophoblasts under TNF alpha-related signal.

Homology

MT2-MMP is supposed to be 72 kDa in molecular weight with overall similarity to MT1-MMP by 73,9%.

Implicated in

Entity name
Cancer progression
Note
Both MT1-MMP and MT2-MMP have potential to play important role in cancer either for proliferation or transmigration through extracellular matrix (ECM). Ota and his colleagues have suggested that membrane-localized proteolytic enzyme such as MT1/2-MMP can be induced and recruited towards the tumor cell surface during epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) mediated by Snail1-related signal (Ota et al., 2009). Other group has indicated that cancer cells, such as PANC-1, induce MT2-MMP under hypoxia in a HIF-1 dependent manner (Zhu et al., 2011). These data suggest MT2-MMP may play some role in cancer progression against the physiological stress. It has not been clarified, however, that MT2-MMP can entirely substitute the function of MT1-MMP and vice versa.
Several IHS analyses with clinical samples suggested that MT2-MMP is expressed in several tumor types which include esophageal (Chen et al., 2010), bladder (Mohammad et al., 2010), colorectal (Lyall et al., 2006), and urothelial carcinoma (Kitagawa et al., 1998). In such reports for the colorectal and bladder cancer, the expression of MT2-MMP was shown to be associated with disease prognosis (Lyall et al., 2006; Mohammad et al., 2010).
Entity name
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
Note
IPF is a disease characterized by fibroblast expansion and ECM accumulation in lung. A previous report suggests MT1-MMP as well as MT2-MMP, was expressed in alveolar epithelial cells, and active MMP-2 was increased in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids in IPF tissue. These MMPs possibly play roles in the pathogeny (García-Alvarez et al., 2006).

Bibliography

Pubmed IDLast YearTitleAuthors
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175433402008Prognostic values of matrix metalloproteinase family expression in human colorectal carcinoma.Asano T et al
161030822005PACE4 expression in mouse basal keratinocytes results in basement membrane disruption and acceleration of tumor progression.Bassi DE et al
107362392000Messenger RNA for membrane-type 2 matrix metalloproteinase, MT2-MMP, is expressed in human placenta of first trimester.Bjørn SF et al
210367652010Immunochemical staining of MT2-MMP correlates positively to angiogenesis of human esophageal cancer.Chen L et al
156190172004Immunohistochemical study of characteristics of bile duct dysplasia evaluated on the basis of expression of metastasis/invasion-related factors and p53.Chiba H et al
208034182011Crocetin inhibits invasiveness of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells via downregulation of matrix metalloproteinases.Chryssanthi DG et al
156235982004Matrix metalloproteinase/tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinase phenotype identifies poor prognosis colorectal cancers.Curran S et al
126640602003Characterization of expression of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in prostate cancer cell lines.Daja MM et al
112938992001Expression of membrane-type 1, 2, and 3 matrix metalloproteinases messenger RNA in ovarian carcinoma cells in serous effusions.Davidson B et al
170665182006Inflammatory gene expression patterns revealed by DNA microarray analysis in TNF-alpha-treated SGBS human adipocytes.Do MS et al
110956142000Membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases in mice intracorneally infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Dong Z et al
105855762000Role of MT-MMPs and MMP-2 in pancreatic cancer progression.Ellenrieder V et al
164697492006Individual Timp deficiencies differentially impact pro-MMP-2 activation.English JL et al
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169334662006Membrane type-matrix metalloproteinases in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.García-Alvarez J et al
127734012003Expression pattern of metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of matrix-metalloproteinases in cycling human endometrium.Goffin F et al
214871162011Dynamics of salivary gland morphogenesis.Harunaga J et al
180933012007The first trimester human trophoblast cell line ACH-3P: a novel tool to study autocrine/paracrine regulatory loops of human trophoblast subpopulations--TNF-alpha stimulates MMP15 expression.Hiden U et al
177242062007MMP and TIMP expression in quiescent, dividing, and differentiating human lens cells.Hodgkinson LM et al
108510272000Regulation of cell invasion and morphogenesis in a three-dimensional type I collagen matrix by membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases 1, 2, and 3.Hotary K et al
169831452006A cancer cell metalloprotease triad regulates the basement membrane transmigration program.Hotary K et al
118280042002Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) regulate fibrin-invasive activity via MT1-MMP-dependent and -independent processes.Hotary KB et al
145827072003A study on angiogenesis-related matrix metalloproteinase networks in primary hepatocellular carcinoma.Ishii Y et al
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111255392000Expression of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors by rat NK cells: inhibition of their expression by genistein.Kim MH et al
97514091998Expression and tissue localization of membrane-types 1, 2, and 3 matrix metalloproteinases in human urothelial carcinomas.Kitagawa Y et al
147552382004Identification of genes whose expression is upregulated in lung adenocarcinoma cells in comparison with type II alveolar cells and bronchiolar epithelial cells in vivo.Kobayashi K et al
96096631998Localization of the human membrane-type 2 matrix metalloproteinase gene (MMP15) to 16q12.1 near DNA elements that are part of centromeric and non-centromeric heterochromatin of 11 human chromosomes.Koehler MR et al
90885341997Activation of progelatinase A and progelatinase A/TIMP-2 complex by membrane type 2-matrix metalloproteinase.Kolkenbrock H et al
157540082005Genistein suppresses the invasive potential of human breast cancer cells through transcriptional regulation of metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors.Kousidou OC et al
155513602005Upregulation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in breast cancer xenografts: a major induction of stromal MMP-13.Lafleur MA et al
172011862006Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues alter gene expression of metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in human breast cancer epithelial cells.Lamari FN et al
97088031998Expression of matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors in human brain tumors.Lampert K et al
145051152003Proteases in brain tumour progression.Levicar N et al
164890722006Profiling markers of prognosis in colorectal cancer.Lyall MS et al
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Other Information

Locus ID:

NCBI: 4324
MIM: 602261
HGNC: 7161
Ensembl: ENSG00000102996

Variants:

dbSNP: 4324
ClinVar: 4324
TCGA: ENSG00000102996
COSMIC: MMP15

RNA/Proteins

Gene IDTranscript IDUniprot
ENSG00000102996ENST00000219271P51511
ENSG00000102996ENST00000219271A0A024R6U8
ENSG00000102996ENST00000570065H3BT97

Expression (GTEx)

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Pathways

PathwaySourceExternal ID
Extracellular matrix organizationREACTOMER-HSA-1474244
Degradation of the extracellular matrixREACTOMER-HSA-1474228
Activation of Matrix MetalloproteinasesREACTOMER-HSA-1592389
Collagen degradationREACTOMER-HSA-1442490

Protein levels (Protein atlas)

Not detected
Low
Medium
High

References

Pubmed IDYearTitleCitations
169831452006A cancer cell metalloprotease triad regulates the basement membrane transmigration program.148
199131212009Gene-centric association signals for lipids and apolipoproteins identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip.85
206738682010A genetic association study of maternal and fetal candidate genes that predispose to preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM).36
204524822010Identification of fetal and maternal single nucleotide polymorphisms in candidate genes that predispose to spontaneous preterm labor with intact membranes.26
168251972006TIMP independence of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 activation by membrane type 2 (MT2)-MMP is determined by contributions of both the MT2-MMP catalytic and hemopexin C domains.23
210367652010Immunochemical staining of MT2-MMP correlates positively to angiogenesis of human esophageal cancer.21
232283952013Multiple steps of HLA-G in ovarian carcinoma metastasis: alter NK cytotoxicity and induce matrix metalloproteinase-15 (MMP-15) expression.16
201170872010The role of MT2-MMP in cancer progression.11
206280862010Variation at the NFATC2 locus increases the risk of thiazolidinedione-induced edema in the Diabetes REduction Assessment with ramipril and rosiglitazone Medication (DREAM) study.11
217512602011Transcriptional upregulation of MT2-MMP in response to hypoxia is promoted by HIF-1α in cancer cells.10

Citation

Emiko Ito ; Ikuo Yana ; Nariaki Matsuura

MMP15 (matrix metallopeptidase 15 (membrane-inserted))

Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2012-10-01

Online version: http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/gene/41392/mmp15-(matrix-metallopeptidase-15-(membrane-inserted))