Environmental pH modulation of collagenase in normal human fibroblast cultures |
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Authors: | Donald F. Busiek Eugene A. Bauer |
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Affiliation: | Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Normal human skin fibroblast cultures have been used to assess the effects of relatively minor changes in environmental pH on collagenase, a major extracellular gene product. Collagenase accumulation in the culture medium, measured both as enzyme activity and immunoreactive material, was 2- to 10-fold greater at pH 7.6–8.2 than at pH 6.8–7.2. The pH-associated increase in collagenase was parallel by an increase in general protein synthesis. Nevertheless, prototypic lysosomal and cytoplasmic enzymes changed very little under identical culturing conditions. Although substantial intracellular protein degradation occurred at all pH values, the small differences either in general protein degradation or in specific collagenase degradation in the medium were of insufficient magnitude to account for the increased accumulation of collagenase. |
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Keywords: | Collagenase (pH modulation skin fibroblasts) |
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