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1 Institute of Dentistry, University of Oulu, PO Box 5281, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland;
2 Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland;
3 Oral Pathology Unit and Biomedicum Laboratory Diagnostics (HUCH), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and
4 Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;
5 corresponding author, Tuula.Salo{at}oulu.fi;
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KEY WORDS: MMP-20 • dentin • dentinal fluid • caries
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In addition to MMP-20, odontoblasts synthesize other MMPs, at least gelatinases (MMP-2, -9) (Heikinheimo and Salo, 1995; Tjäderhane et al., 1998a), stromelysin-1 (MMP-3) (Hall et al., 1999), collagenase-2 (MMP-8) (Palosaari et al., 2000), and membrane-type 1 MMP (MT1-MMP) (Caron et al., 1998; Palosaari et al., 2002). Their roles in the dentin-pulp complex are not known, but they may participate in the organization of dentin organic matrix before mineralization (Caron et al., 1998; Tjäderhane et al., 1998a). Some MMPs are incorporated into dentin, since sound human dentin contains latent mammalian collagenase (Dayan et al., 1983) and MMP-2 (Martin-De Las Heras et al., 2000). In dentin caries progression, salivary- and/or pulp-derived host MMPs may have a role in organic dentin matrix degradation (Tjäderhane et al., 1998b; Sulkala et al., 2001).
MMP-2 expression is high in differentiating and secretory odontoblasts during dentin formation (Heikinheimo and Salo, 1995; Caron et al., 2001), and MMP-2 has been found in sound dentin (Martin-De Las Heras et al., 2000). Therefore, we set a hypothesis that because odontoblasts begin to synthesize MMP-20 at the onset of dentin development, MMP-20 remains in mineralized dentin, and the protein could be detected in mature dentin. Since mature odontoblasts synthesize MMP-20, we investigated whether MMP-20 is secreted into dentinal fluid of sound teeth. To study the presence and localization of MMP-20 in mature teeth in states of both health and disease, we examined soft carious dentin and odontoblasts and pulp tissue of sound and carious teeth by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry.
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Dentin Protein Extraction
Sound human third molars (n = 4) were used for dentin protein extraction, which has previously been described in detail (Martin-De Las Heras et al., 2000). Briefly, the dentin pieces were crushed, and the powder was first subjected to protein extraction with 4 M guanidine HCl, 65 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) (G1 extraction). Subsequently, dentin powder was demineralized with 0.5 M EDTA (pH 7.4) (E1-E5 extractions), and after demineralization, guanidine-HCl extraction was repeated (G2 extraction).
Collection of Dentinal Fluid
An occlusal cavity through enamel and 2-4 mm into dentin was made with a turbine drill under water-cooling in extracted sound human third molars. The smear layer was removed by being etched with 35% phosphoric acid gel (3M Scotchbond 1 Etchant, St. Paul, MN, USA) for 20 sec, and the cavity was carefully washed with PBS and thereafter filled with PBS (20-40 µL) for 20 min. After incubation at RT, PBS was collected and stored at –20°C. For Western blotting, the dentinal fluids of 68 teeth were collected, pooled, divided into three samples, and concentrated with the use of concentration tubes (Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA).
Collection of Odontoblasts, Pulp Tissue, and Carious Dentin
For Western blotting, odontoblast-predentin layers of 1-6 teeth and pulp tissues of 1-2 teeth were dissected and diluted into 30 µL of 1x Laemmli buffer (Laemmli, 1970). Tissue samples obtained from sound (n = 8) and carious (n = 12) teeth were included in the experiment. Soft, active carious dentin was scraped from the carious teeth (n = 5) with a dental excavator and diluted into 1x Laemmli buffer.
ECL-Western Blotting
The Laemmli-buffer-diluted samples were prepared at +60°C for 20 min and then run on 12% sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gels (SDS-PAGE). The total protein loaded was visualized with 0.5% Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining. The proteins were transferred to ImmobilonTM P PVDF Transfer membrane (Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA) in non-reducing conditions. We blocked non-specific binding by incubating the filter with TBS supplemented with 5% non-fat dry milk (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, MI, USA) for 60 min. After being washed, the filter was incubated overnight in RT with monoclonal antibody against human recombinant MMP-20 (1 µg/mL) (a kind gift from Dr. Kazushi Iwata; Fuji Chemical Industries Ltd., Toyama, Japan). Following washings, the filter was incubated with biotinylated secondary antibody (1:1000; DAKO, A/S, Glostrup, Denmark) and with the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (DAKO, A/S, Glostrup, Denmark) for 1 hr. For detection, the filter was developed by means of an ECL Chemiluminescence Western Blotting detection kit (Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK).
Immunohistochemistry
The staining of the sound (n = 4) and carious (n = 4) third molars was performed on 6-µm-thick, formalin-fixed demineralized paraffin-embedded tissue sections, with the use of a VECTASTAIN® Elite ABC Kit PK 6101 (Vector Laboratories Inc., Burlingame, CA, USA) and polyclonal antibody for MMP-20 (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA). After deparaffinization, the tissue sections were incubated in 0.3% H2O2 in methanol for 3 hrs to quench the endogenous peroxidase activity, pre-treated with 0.4% pepsin for 60 min in 37°C, and washed with PBS in between. Non-specific binding was blocked with normal goat serum (diluted 1:20 in 2% BSA/PBS) for 30 min. Thereafter, the sections were incubated overnight with the primary antibody (diluted 1:2500 to 1:1000 in 2% BSA/PBS) in 4°C in a humid chamber. We determined specificity of the staining by replacing the primary antibody with buffer alone and with buffer-diluted normal rabbit serum (DAKO, A/S, Glostrup, Denmark). The following day, the sections were washed in PBS, incubated consecutively with biotinylated secondary antibody solution (Anti-Rabbit IgG) and with ABC reagent for 60 min, and washed with PBS in between. The tissue sections were stained with 3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole (DAKO Corp., Carpinteria, CA, USA), counterstained with Mayer’s hematoxylin, and mounted in Aquamount (Gurr BDH Chemicals Ltd., Poole, UK).
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). Also, higher- (100-110 kDa) and several lower-molecular-weight bands (20-32 kDa) were observed (Fig. 1A). In the first guanidine extraction fraction (G1), MMP-20 was not detected (Fig. 1A).
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). In one of three concentrated samples, a faint 57-kDa band corresponding to the proform of human MMP-20 was also detected (Fig. 1B).
The result of MMP-20 Western blotting of soft carious dentin was usually negative. One of the carious dentin samples analyzed (n = 5) showed a faint 43-kDa band (not shown). In odontoblast and pulp tissue Western blots, an immunoreactive double-band of 46 and 43 kDa as well as complexed and truncated forms of 100-110, 60-85, and 20-40 kDa were observed, in both the sound and carious teeth (Fig. 1C).
Immunohistochemical Staining of Sound and Carious Teeth
MMP-20 immunoreactivity was observed most clearly in odontoblasts of sound and carious teeth. In both cases, the density of stained odontoblasts was typically higher toward the root dentin, whereas, more coronally, the odontoblastic layer was stained more weakly (Figs. 2A-2C). At the cellular level, the stain was positive in the odontoblast cell body, mostly on the pulpal side (Fig. 2D). Occasionally, predentin was also MMP-20-positive (Figs. 2B-2D). In all the carious teeth, some, but never all, dilated dentinal tubuli were positively stained (Fig. 2E). The pulp showed MMP-20 immunoreactive staining in capillary endothelial cells (Fig. 2F). There was no staining in the sections incubated with non-immune serum (Fig. 2G).
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We demonstrate that at least some of the MMP-20 synthesized by odontoblasts is incorporated into mineralized dentin. In contrast to previous findings with MMP-2 (Martin-De Las Heras et al., 2000), no MMP-20 was found in the first extraction fraction (G1) containing non-mineralized dentin matrix proteins. On the other hand, MMP-2-related gelatinolytic activity could not be found in the mineralized part of dentin (Martin-De Las Heras et al., 2000), but we found MMP-20 in these fractions (EDTA extractions). Like MMP-2, MMP-20 could also be detected in demineralized dentin organic matrix (G2 fraction). The presence of the enzyme in the hydroxyapatite-bound and collagenous-network-bound protein fractions, the molecular weights suggesting the active form of the enzyme (Llano et al., 1997), indicates the activity of MMP-20 in dentin matrix organization before and during mineralization in vivo. It can also be concluded that demineralization or degradation of demineralized organic matrix is required for MMP-20 release from dentin, which would therefore occur, e.g., during dentin caries progression.
Indeed, in immunohistochemical staining, we observed MMP-20 in some of the dilated dentinal tubuli. Tubuli of soft carious dentin also contain a large pattern of other hydrolytic enzymes, including various endopeptidases (Larmas, 2001). However, in Western blotting, MMP-20 could be detected only occasionally in soft carious dentin. It is possible that detection of MMP-20 in caries lesions by Western blotting would have required larger quantities of tissue for the analysis. Alternatively, the enzyme may have been activated and fragmented into non-detectable forms during earlier events of caries progression.
The host MMPs have been suggested to be involved in dentin caries progression (Tjäderhane et al., 1998b; Sulkala et al., 2001). Since MMP-20 does not cleave type I or II collagen in vitro (Väänänen et al., 2001), dentin-bound MMP-20 could contribute, e.g., to the early alterations in non-collagenous organic matrix during caries progression in dentin (Lormée et al., 1986), rather than degradation of collagenous matrix per se. On the other hand, the dentin-bound MMPs may have a defensive role during dentin caries progression by, e.g., releasing dentin-bound growth factors, which in turn would participate in the regulation of dentin-pulp complex defensive reactions under caries lesions (Tjäderhane et al., 2002).
MMP-20 production was demonstrated here in both odontoblasts and pulp tissue by Western blotting. Previously, MMP-20 has not been shown in pulp tissue, but a low level of MMP-20 expression has been detected in pulp stromal cells of dental papilla (Fukae et al., 1998). However, in immunohistochemical staining, MMP-20-positive pulpal fibroblasts were few and scattered, while endothelial cells demonstrated positive staining more uniformly. Our results with Western blotting and immunohistochemistry suggest that MMP-20 synthesis is not markedly altered in carious teeth when compared with sound teeth.
In immunohistochemical staining, the intensity of the MMP-20-positive staining in odontoblasts was not uniform through the odontoblastic layer, but there was a gradient of more intensive staining toward the radicular dentin, whereas, more coronally, fewer odontoblasts were stained. Primary dentinogenesis advances from the crown in the apical direction, and it is likely that, in the third molars of young patients used in the experiment, primary dentinogenesis proceeded in the root dentin area. The finding indicates that MMP-20 production of odontoblasts is altered according to the stage of differentiation, and the level of synthesis may reflect the activity of the primary dentinogenesis.
We also demonstrate MMP-20 in dentinal fluid, which is normal extracellular fluid with respect to its inorganic ion content (Larmas et al., 1986). In vivo, there is a fluid flux toward the dentin-enamel junction (Vongsavan and Matthews, 1991), and the content of dentinal fluid, at least without external irritation, has been suggested to be regulated by the odontoblasts (Turner, 1992). Due to cavity preparation, the integrity of the odontoblast layer may be disturbed (Turner et al., 1989), and some fluid components may have leaked from the pulp, since dentinal fluid collected from cavities in vivo contains plasma proteins such as albumin (Knutsson et al., 1994). However, after extraction of the tooth, the dentinal fluid flow is reversed (Vongsavan and Matthews, 1991). The immunostainings demonstrated that the main source of MMP-20 in the human dentin-pulp complex is the odontoblasts. The results imply that MMP-20 of dentinal fluid is most likely odontoblast-derived and is secreted into dentinal tubuli at least during external irritation. Therefore, MMP-20 might be involved in defense reactions, e.g., secondary dentin production, but may also be a component of normal human dentinal fluid.
In Western blots, the molecular weights observed (46 and 43 kDa) correspond to the calculated active form of human MMP-20 (Llano et al., 1997). The 57-kDa band, corresponding to the proform of human MMP-20 (Llano et al., 1997), was detected only in dentinal fluid. The absence of proform in dentin samples could be due to autolytic fragmentation during extraction, or the enzyme may already have been in the 46/43-kDa active form in the samples. Also, the 20- to 40-kDa bands detected in Western blots could represent autolytic cleavage products of MMP-20. The high-molecular-weight bands, observed especially in the odontoblast and pulp tissue samples, but also in other samples, most likely represent the complexed forms with other proteins, e.g., with the endogenous tissue inhibitors of MMPs (TIMPs) of 70 to 80 kDa.
In conclusion, this study demonstrates that mineralized human dentin contains MMP-20, part of which is removed during demineralization, while the rest is bound to the organic matrix. The results also indicate that the dentin-bound MMP-20 might be released, and possibly activated, during dentin caries progression. The main cellular source of MMP-20 in the dentin-pulp complex is the odontoblasts, which also produce MMP-20 in dentinal fluid.
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Received January 14, 2002; Last revision July 5, 2002; Accepted July 9, 2002
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