Matrix metalloproteinase-9 in pneumococcal meningitis: activation via an oxidative pathway

Meli, Damian N.; Christen, Stephan; Leib, Stephen L. (2003). Matrix metalloproteinase-9 in pneumococcal meningitis: activation via an oxidative pathway. Journal of infectious diseases, 187(9), pp. 1411-1415. Cary, N.C.: The University of Chicago Press 10.1086/374644

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In experimental bacterial meningitis, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) contribute to brain damage. MMP-9 increases in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) during bacterial meningitis and is associated with the brain damage that is a consequence of the disease. This study assesses the origin of MMP-9 in bacterial meningitis and how ROS modulate its activity. Rat brain-slice cultures and rat polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) that had been challenged with capsule-deficient heat-inactivated Streptococcus pneumoniae R6 (hiR6) released MMP-9. Coincubation with either catalase, with the myeloperoxidase inhibitor azide, or with the hypochlorous acid scavenger methionine almost completely prevented activation, but not the release, of MMP-9, in supernatants of human PMNs stimulated with hiR6. Thus, in bacterial meningitis, both brain-resident cells and invading PMNs may act as sources of MMP-9, and stimulated PMNs may activate MMP-9 via an ROS-dependent pathway. MMP-9 activation by ROS may represent a target for therapeutic intervention in bacterial meningitis.

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