BMP4/Id2 signaling pathway is a novel therapeutic target for late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cell-mediated endothelial injury repair

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• 作者：Wen-Hao Xia^a ; ¹ ; Long Chen^a ; ¹ ; Jian-Wen Liang^a ; ¹ ; Xiao-Yu Zhang^a ; Chen Su^a ; Xinzhu Tong^a ; ^b ; Jiang He^a ; Yan Li^a ; Zheng Cao^b ; Xiu-Fang Lin^c ; ^{linxiufang126_@126.com} ; Jun Tao^a ; ^{taojungz123@163.com}
• 关键词：Endothelial injury ; Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells ; Bone morphogenetic protein 4 ; Endothelial repair ; Cell therapy
• 刊名：International Journal of Cardiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：228
• 期：Complete
• 页码：796-804
• 全文大小：1559 K
• 卷排序：228

文摘

Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) play a pivotal role in endothelial repair following artery injury, however, the molecular mechanism of late outgrowth EPCs (LEPCs) in endothelial repair remained to be studied. Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) is involved in vascular injury-mediated mobilization and homing of LEPCs. Here, we investigated the influence of BMP4-modified signaling pathway in LEPC-related endothelial repair of human and underlying molecular mechanism.Methods and resultsIn vitro, after a 28 day culture, human LEPCs were pretreated with different concentrations of recombinant BMP4 (0, 10, 50, or 100 ng/mL), which markedly augmented the migration and adhesion in vitro and demonstrated a significantly accelerated in vivo endothelial repair capacity of human LEPCs after transplantation into nude mice with carotid artery denudation injury. Moreover, the main Id gene (Id2), a well-characterized down-streaming target of BMP4, upregulated in LEPCs incubated with recombinant BMP4. The BMP4-induced enhancement in in vitro functional activities and in vivo endothelial repair capacity of human LEPCs were abolished by pretreatment with BMP antagonist Noggin or shRNA-mediated knockdown of BMP4 expression. Furthermore, BMP4 gene transfer remarkably activated BMP4-mediated signaling pathway and facilitated therapeutic endothelial repair capacity of LEPCs, and the improved functional activities of human LEPCs could be inhibited by Noggin.ConclusionThus, the present study demonstrates for the first time that BMP4-related signaling pathway is essential with endothelial repair capacity of LEPCs in human. The upregulation of BMP4-modified signaling pathway in human LEPCs may be a novel therapeutic strategy for endothelial repair after injury.