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Tumor Suppressor Maspin Is Up-Regulated during Keratinocyte Senescence, Exerting a Paracrine Antiangiogenic Activity

¹ Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois; ² Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and ³ Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Cell senescence is a physiological program of terminal growth arrest, which is believed to play an important role in cancer prevention. Senescent cells secrete multiple growth-regulatory proteins, some of which can affect tumor growth, survival, invasion, or angiogenesis. Changes in expression of different senescence-associated genes were analyzed in cultured human skin keratinocytes (KCs) that underwent replicative senescence or confluence-induced accelerated senescence. Senescent KC cultures showed a strong increase in mRNA and protein expression of maspin, a member of serine protease inhibitor family and an epithelial cell tumor suppressor with anti-invasive and antiangiogenic activities. Immunohistochemical analysis of 14 normal human skin samples (age range from 3 months to 84 years) showed that maspin is expressed by KCs in vivo and that the extent and intensity of maspin expression in the skin is significantly (P = 0.01) correlated with chronological age. Antiangiogenic activity of maspin secreted by senescent KCs was investigated in vitro by testing the effect of conditioned media from different KC cultures on endothelial cell migration in the presence or absence of several angiogenic factors. Media conditioned by senescent cultures (undergoing replicative or accelerated senescence), but not by proliferating KCs, strongly inhibited the stimulation of endothelial cell migration by all of the tested angiogenic factors. Neutralizing antibody against maspin abrogated this effect of conditioned media. These findings indicate that senescent KCs exert a paracrine antiangiogenic activity, and maspin is the principal contributor to this potentially tumor-suppressive effect of cellular senescence.

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