Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
Volume 1863, Issue 2, Pages 560-568Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.12.002
Keywords
TRPC6; TGF-beta 1; Pulmonary fibrosis; Cell contraction; Primary murine lung fibroblasts; Myofibroblast differentiation
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [16, TRR 152]
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Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a chronic progressive lung disease without effective medical treatment options leading to respiratory failure and death within 3-5 years of diagnosis. The pathological process of PF is driven by aberrant wound-healing involving fibroblasts and myofibroblasts differentiated by secreted profibrotic transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta 1). Classical transient receptor potential 6 (TRPC6), a Na+- and Ca2+-permeable cation channel, is able to promote myofibroblast conversion of primary rat cardiac and human dermal fibroblasts and TRPC6-deficiency impaired wound healing after injury. To study a potential role of TRPC6 in the development of PF we analyzed lung function, gene and protein expression in wild-type (WT) and TRPC6-deficient (TRPC6-/-) lungs utilizing a bleomycin-induced PF-model. Fibrotic WT-mice showed a significant higher death rate while bleomycin-treated TRPC6-deficient mice were partly protected from fibrosis as a consequence of a lower production of collagen and an almost normal function of the respiratory system (reduced resistance and elastance compared to fibrotic WT-mice). On a molecular level TGF-beta 1 induced TRPC6 up-regulation, increased Ca2+ influx and nuclear NFAT localization in WT primary murine lung fibroblasts (PMLFs) resulting in higher stress fiber formation and accelerated contraction rates as compared to treated TRPC6-deficient fibroblasts. Therefore, we conclude that TRPC6 is an important determinant for TGF-beta 1-induced myofibroblast differentiation during fibrosis and specific channel inhibitors might be beneficial in a future treatment of PF. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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