Figure 9.
Receptor- and stress-activated shedding is inhibited by TIMP-3. (A and B) SVEC4-10 cells were treated with or without 10 ng/ml EGF or 100 μM TRAP, or (C and D) NMuMG cells were treated with or without 100 μM ceramide for 2 h in the presence or absence of 20 μg/ml TIMP-3. The syndecan-1 (A and C) and syndecan-4 (B and D) ectodomains in the conditioned media were assayed by dot blot analysis as in Fig. 1. Quantitation was done as in Fig. 1 and each point represents the mean ± SD (n = 3). For each shedding agonist assayed, treatment with TIMP-1, -2, or -3 alone (20 μM) had no effect on the level of shedding compared with the untreated control.