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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 1205-1218Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13119
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP-15447]
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Transplant vasculopathy is associated with neointimal accumulation of recipient-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Increased circulating levels of LG3, a C-terminal fragment of perlecan, were found in renal transplant patients with vascular rejection. Here, we evaluated whether LG3 regulates the migration and homing of mesenchymal stem cells and the accumulation of recipient-derived neointimal cells. Mice were transplanted with a fully-MHC mismatched aortic graft followed by intravenous injection of recombinant LG3. LG3 injections increased neointimal accumulation of -smooth muscle actin positive cells. When green fluorescent protein (GFP)-transgenic mice were used as recipients, LG3 injection favored accumulation of GFP+ cells to sites of neointima formation. LG3 increased horizontal migration and transmigration of mouse and human MSC in vitro and led to increased ERK1/2 phosphorylation. Neutralizing 1 integrin antibodies or use of mesenchymal stem cells from 2 integrin-/- mice decreased migration in response to recombinant LG3. Reduced intima-media ratios and decreased numbers of neointimal cells showing ERK1/2 phosphorylation were found in alpha 2-/- recipients injected with recombinant LG3. Collectively, our results suggest that LG3, through interactions with 21 integrins on recipient-derived cells leading to activation of ERK1/2 and increased migration, favors myointimal thickening.
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