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Immunolocalization of Enamelysin (Matrix Metalloproteinase-20) in the Forming Rat Incisor

Katia Bourd–Boittin, Dominique Septier, Rachel Hall, Michel Goldberg and Suzanne Menashi

Matrices Extracellulaires et Biominéralisation, EA 2496, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université René Descartes Paris V, Montrouge, France (KB–B,DS,MG); Department of Clinical Dental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom (RH); and U 532 INSERM, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France (SM)

Correspondence to: Michel Goldberg, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université Paris V, 1, rue Maurice Arnoux, 92120 Montrouge, France. E-mail: mgoldod{at}aol.com

In the rat model, we used the continuously growing incisor to study the expression pattern of matrix metalloproteinase-20 (MMP-20) during the formation of mineralized dental tissues. Casein zymography analysis of extracts of the forming part of the incisor revealed lysis bands corresponding to both the latent form at 57 kD and the active 46- and 41-kD forms, whereas omission of proteinase inhibitors during protein extraction resulted in a single band at 21 kD. A higher molecular weight form of 78 kD was also stained with MMP-20 and TIMP-2 antibodies in Western blotting, and was therefore believed to correspond to an MMP-20/TIMP-2 complex. Immunohistochemical and immunogold electron microscopic results demonstrated strong MMP-20 staining in the forming outer enamel, which diminished near the dentino–enamel junction, but dentin and predentin were unstained. A strong concentration of MMP-20 was seen in the stratum intermedium (SI), particularly at the earlier stages of enamel development. Our results confirm the presence of MMP-20 protein in ameloblasts and odontoblasts of rat incisor and show it to be localized in the same sites of the forming enamel as amelogenin. Their expression is transient in odontoblasts but persists in ameloblasts, and in both cases the expression of amelogenin preceded that of MMP-20 suggesting a developmentally controlled regulation.

(J Histochem Cytochem 52:437–445, 2004)

Key Words: matrix metalloproteinase-20 • TIMP-2 • stratum intermedium • ameloblast • odontoblast • enamel • amelogenin • dentin

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