Summary The effect of basement membrane components (laminin, fibronectin and type IV collagen) and lung fibroblasts on type IV collagenase and plasminogen activator activity was investigated in a primary HSV-2-induced hamster fibrosarcoma, and its in vivo derived sublines and in vitro derived clones of varying metastatic potential.Fibronectin and type IV collagen were ineffective at influencing the expression of either type IV collagenase or plasminogen activator activity. Laminn, however, at concentrations of 1-10 ugml-l added to the serumfree culture supernatants, increased the release of type IV collagenase by up to 100% for the parental cell line. Three highly metastatic sublines (two from in vivo origin and one from in vitro cloning) showed increases of up to 300%. Non-metastic sublines (two from in vivo origin and one from in vitro cloning), however, showed no increase in type IV collagenase activity. Plasminogen activator release from either the parental line cell or its metastatic sublines and clones, was unaffected by the addition of laminin.Addition of tumour cells to lung fibroblast monolayers resulted in an increased expression of PA activity in the supernatant, whilst type IV collagenase activity was reduced.
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