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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 2005-2013Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-6889com
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liver; hepatic myofibroblasts
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA019674] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS048478] Funding Source: Medline
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Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a bioactive sphingolipid produced by sphingosine kinase (SphK1 and 2). We previously showed that S1P receptors (S1P(1), S1P(2), and S1P(3)) are expressed in hepatic myofibroblasts (hMF), a population of cells that triggers matrix remodeling during liver injury. Here we investigated the function of these receptors in the wound healing response to acute liver injury elicited by carbon tetrachloride, a process that associates hepatocyte proliferation and matrix remodeling. Acute liver injury was associated with the induction of S1P2, S1P3, SphK(1), and SphK(2) mRNAs and increased SphK activity, with no change in S1P1 expression. Necrosis, inflammation, and hepatocyte regeneration were similar in S1P(2) (-/-) and wild-type (WT) mice. However, compared with WT mice, S1P(2) (-/-) mice displayed reduced accumulation of hMF, as shown by lower induction of smooth muscle alpha-actin mRNA and lower induction of TIMP-1, TGF-beta 1, and PDGF-BB mRNAs, overall reflecting reduced activation of remodeling in response to liver injury. The wound healing response was similar in S1P(3) (-/-) and WT mice. In vitro, S1P enhanced proliferation of cultured WT hMF, and PDGF-BB further enhanced the mitogenic effect of S1P. In keeping with these findings, PDGF-BB up-regulated S1P(2) and SphK1 mRNAs, increased SphK activity, and S1P(2) induced PDGF-BB mRNA. These effects were blunted in S1P2 (-/-) cells, and S1P(2) (-/-) hMF exhibited reduced mitogenic and comitogenic responses to S1P. These results unravel a novel major role of S1P(2) in the wound healing response to acute liver injury by a mechanism involving enhanced proliferation of hMF.
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