Journal
IUBMB LIFE
Volume 71, Issue 5, Pages 653-662Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/iub.2013
Keywords
hydroxycamptothecin; peritendinous fibrosis; TGF-beta 1; endoplasmic reticulum stress; PERK signaling pathway
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- Projects of Science and Technology Development Foundation of Pudong New District, Shanghai, China [PKJ2016-Y55, PWZxq2017-03]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81271001]
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Peritendinous fibrosis, which leads to impaired tendon function, is a clinical problem worldwide, and it is urgent to explore potential ways to reduce the formation of peritendinous adhesion. Several studies have demonstrated the biological roles of hydroxycamptothecin (HCPT) in inhibiting fibrosis in different tissues. In this study, we investigated whether HCPT could inhibit tendon fibrosis in vitro. Our results revealed that HCPT inhibited transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta 1-induced cell viability of human fibroblasts, decreased excessive cell hyperproliferation and promoted fibroblasts apoptosis. In addition, HCPT treatment also inhibited expression of fibrosis genes COL3A1 and alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA). In terms of mechanism, we pretreated fibroblasts with the endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER) inhibitor salubrinal and RNA-dependent protein kinase-like ER kinase (PERK) short hairpin RNA, these treatments abolished the inhibitory effects of HCPT on fibrosis, thereby suggesting that HCPT's inhibition of TGF-beta 1-induced tendon fibrosis might be mediated by the PERK signaling pathway in vitro. In conclusion, our results suggested that HCPT had protective effects on peritendinous tissue fibrosis and might be promising in future clinical applications. (c) 2019 IUBMB Life, 71(5):653-662, 2019
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