期刊
MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH
卷 79, 期 1, 页码 1-9出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2009.10.005
关键词
Angiogenesis; Endothelial cells; Semaphorin; Sema5A; Matrix metalloproteinase; Migration; Akt phosphorylation; Proliferation; Met receptor
资金
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health [CA72781]
- Nebraska Research Initiative Molecular Therapeutics Program
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R29CA072781, R01CA072781] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Semaphorin 5A (mouse, Sema5A; human, SEMA5A), is an axon regulator molecule and plays major roles during neuronal and vascular development. The importance of Sema5A during vasculogenesis, however, is unclear. The fact that Sema5A deficient mice display a defective branching of cranial vasculature supports its participation in blood vessel formation. In this study, we tested our hypothesis that Sema5A regulates angiogenesis by modulating various steps during angiogenesis. Accordingly, we demonstrated that the treatment of immortalized endothelial cells with recombinant extracellular domain of mouse Sema5A significantly increased endothelial cell proliferation and migration and decreased apoptosis. We also observed a relative increase of endothelial expression of anti-apoptotic genes relative to pro-apoptotic genes in Sema5A-treated endothelial cells suggesting its role in inhibition of apoptosis. In addition, our data suggest that Sema5A decreases apoptosis through activation of Akt, increases migration through activating Met tyrosine kinases and extracellular matrix degradation through matrix metalloproteinase 9. Moreover, in vivo Matrigel plug assays demonstrated that Sema5A induces endothelial cell migration from pre-existing vessels. In conclusion, the present work shows the pro-angiogenic role of Sema5A and provides clues on the signaling pathways that underlie them. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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