Journal
REDOX BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages 656-668Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2017.11.012
Keywords
VSMCs; Chicoric acid; PDGF-BB; Proliferation; Migration
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- experimental public platform, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81700364]
- Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation [BK20170179]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11745]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M611688]
- Jiangsu Postdoctoral Science Foundation [1701062C]
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Phenotypic switch of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is characterized by increased expressions of VSMC synthetic markers and decreased levels of VSMC contractile markers, which is an important step for VSMC proliferation and migration during the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases including atherosclerosis. Chicoric acid (CA) is identified to exert powerful cardiovascular protective effects. However, little is known about the effects of CA on VSMC biology. Herein, in cultured VSMCs, we showed that pretreatment with CA dose-dependently suppressed platelet-derived growth factor type BB (PDGF-BB)-induced VSMC phenotypic alteration, proliferation and migration. Mechanistically, PDGF-BB-treated VSMCs exhibited higher mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and P70S6K phosphorylation, which was attenuated by CA pretreatment, diphenyleneiodonium chloride (DPI), reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF kappa B) inhibitor Bay117082. PDGF-BB-triggered ROS production and p65-NF kappa B activation were inhibited by CA. In addition, both NAC and DPI abolished PDGF-BB-evoked p65-NF kappa B nuclear translocation, phosphorylation and degradation of Inhibitor KB alpha (IKB alpha). Of note, blockade of ROS/NF kappa B/mTOR/P70S6K signaling cascade prevented PDGF-BB-evoked VSMC phenotypic transformation, proliferation and migration. CA treatment prevented intimal hyperplasia and vascular remodeling in rat models of carotid artery ligation in vivo. These results suggest that CA impedes PDGF-BB-induced VSMC phenotypic switching, proliferation, migration and neointima formation via inhibition of ROS/NF kappa B/mTOR/P70S6K signaling cascade.
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