Xiaoyong Yuan1, Bradley M Mitchell, Kirk R Wilhelmus. 1. Sid W. Richardson Ocular Microbiology Laboratory, Cullen Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) during the inception and progression of experimental keratomycosis. METHODS: Scarified corneas of adult BALB/c mice were topically inoculated with Candida albicans strain SC5314 and monitored for disease severity. Infected and mock-infected corneas were compared at 1 day post inoculation (p.i.) with a murine gene microarray. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) determined MMP and TIMP levels at 1, 3, and 7 days p.i. for infected, mock-infected, and normal corneas. Immunostaining localized target proteins at 1 day p.i. RESULTS: Eyes inoculated with C. albicans developed corneal infection with a mean clinical score of 8.2+/-0.8 at 1 day p.i. Compared to controls at 1 day p.i., MMP-8, -9, -10, -12, -13, -19, and TIMP-1 were significantly upregulated from fivefold to 375-fold by microarray and from threefold to 78-fold by real-time RT-PCR. Upregulated MMPs and TIMP-1 in the corneal epithelium and stroma of infected eyes correlated with the influx of acute inflammatory cells. Neither MMP-8 nor -13 expression was affected by mechanical trauma, but both increased >100-fold during the week after the onset of fungal keratitis. TIMP-1 expression rose from 21-fold more than controls at 1 day to 46-fold at 7 days p.i. by RT-PCR. CONCLUSIONS: Transcriptional and translational levels of MMP-8, -9, -13, and TIMP-1 increase during the early stages of C. albicans keratitis, confirming findings for MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in other infectious keratitis models and suggesting roles for MMP-8 and -13.
PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) during the inception and progression of experimental keratomycosis. METHODS: Scarified corneas of adult BALB/c mice were topically inoculated with Candida albicans strainSC5314 and monitored for disease severity. Infected and mock-infected corneas were compared at 1 day post inoculation (p.i.) with a murine gene microarray. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) determined MMP and TIMP levels at 1, 3, and 7 days p.i. for infected, mock-infected, and normal corneas. Immunostaining localized target proteins at 1 day p.i. RESULTS: Eyes inoculated with C. albicans developed corneal infection with a mean clinical score of 8.2+/-0.8 at 1 day p.i. Compared to controls at 1 day p.i., MMP-8, -9, -10, -12, -13, -19, and TIMP-1 were significantly upregulated from fivefold to 375-fold by microarray and from threefold to 78-fold by real-time RT-PCR. Upregulated MMPs and TIMP-1 in the corneal epithelium and stroma of infected eyes correlated with the influx of acute inflammatory cells. Neither MMP-8 nor -13 expression was affected by mechanical trauma, but both increased >100-fold during the week after the onset of fungal keratitis. TIMP-1 expression rose from 21-fold more than controls at 1 day to 46-fold at 7 days p.i. by RT-PCR. CONCLUSIONS: Transcriptional and translational levels of MMP-8, -9, -13, and TIMP-1 increase during the early stages of C. albicanskeratitis, confirming findings for MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in other infectious keratitis models and suggesting roles for MMP-8 and -13.
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