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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 204, Issue 5, Pages 1083-1093Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061273
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL078744, P01 HL056389, P50 HL056389, HL064242, HL084225, HL56389, R01 HL084225, R01 HL064242, HL078744] Funding Source: Medline
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Semaphorin (SEMA) 7A regulates neuronal and immune function. In these studies, we tested the hypothesis that SEMA 7A is also a critical regulator of tissue remodeling. These studies demonstrate that SEMA 7A and its receptors, plexin C1 and beta 1 integrins, are stimulated by transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta 1 in the murine lung. They also demonstrate that SEMA 7A plays a critical role in TGF-beta 1-induced fibrosis, myofibroblast hyperplasia, alveolar remodeling, and apoptosis. TGF-beta 1 stimulated SEMA 7A via a largely Smad 3-independent mechanism and stimulated SEMA 7A receptors, matrix proteins, CCN proteins, fibroblast growth factor 2, interleukin 13 receptor components, proteases, antiprotease, and apoptosis regulators via Smad 2/3-independent and SEMA 7A-dependent mechanisms. SEMA 7A also played an important role in the pathogenesis of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. TGF-beta 1 and bleomycin also activated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and protein kinase B (PKB)/AKT via SEMA 7A-dependent mechanisms, and PKB/AKT inhibition diminished TGF-beta 1-induced fibrosis. These observations demonstrate that SEMA 7A and its receptors are induced by TGF-beta 1 and that SEMA 7A plays a central role in a PI3K/PKB/AKT-dependent pathway that contributes to TGF-beta 1-induced fibrosis and remodeling. They also demonstrate that the effects of SEMA 7A are not specific for transgenic TGF-beta 1, highlighting the importance of these findings for other fibrotic stimuli.
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