MMP-14 (MT1-MMP) Is a Biomarker of Surgical Outcome and a Potential Mediator of Hearing Loss in Patients With Vestibular Schwannomas

Copyright © 2020 Ren, Hyakusoku, Sagers, Landegger, Welling and Stankovic..

Improved biomarkers are needed for vestibular schwannoma (VS), the most common tumor of the cerebellopontine angle, as existing clinical biomarkers have poor predictive value. Factors such as tumor size or growth rate do not shed light on the pathophysiology of associated sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and suffer from low specificity and sensitivity, whereas histological markers only sample a fraction of the tumor and are difficult to ascertain before tumor treatment or surgical intervention. Proteases play diverse and critical roles in tumorigenesis and could be leveraged as a new class of VS biomarkers. Using a combination of in silico, in vitro, and ex vivo approaches, we identified matrixmetalloprotease 14 (MMP-14; also known as MT1-MMP), from a panel of candidate proteases that were differentially expressed through the largest meta-analysis of human VS transcriptomes. The abundance and proteolytic activity of MMP-14 in the plasma and tumor secretions from VS patients correlated with clinical parameters and the degree of SNHL. Further, MMP-14 plasma levels correlated with surgical outcomes such as the extent of resection. Finally, the application of MMP-14 at physiologic concentrations to cochlear explant cultures led to damage to spiral ganglion neuronal fibers and synapses, thereby providing mechanistic insight into VS-associated SNHL. Taken together, MMP-14 represents a novel molecular biomarker that merits further validation in both diagnostic and prognostic applications for VS.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in cellular neuroscience - 14(2020) vom: 01., Seite 191

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ren, Yin [VerfasserIn]
Hyakusoku, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Sagers, Jessica E [VerfasserIn]
Landegger, Lukas D [VerfasserIn]
Welling, D Bradley [VerfasserIn]
Stankovic, Konstantina M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarker
Hearing loss
Journal Article
MMP-14
Surgical outcome
Vestibular schwannoma

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Date Revised 02.12.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fncel.2020.00191

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NLM314218963