期刊
IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-ANIMAL
卷 58, 期 2, 页码 124-135出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-022-00649-y
关键词
Notch; miR-223-3p; Endothelial cells; Migration; Angiogenesis
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31671523, 31730041, 82003110]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2020JQ-441]
This study demonstrates that Notch signaling regulates endothelial cell migration and sprouting through miR-223-3p and Fbxw7. Upregulation of miR-223-3p inhibits endothelial cell migration, leading to impaired lumen formation and sprouting in angiogenesis. Furthermore, miR-223-3p regulates the expression of multiple genes involved in axon guidance, extracellular matrix remodeling, and angiogenesis. These findings provide new insights into the downstream mechanisms of Notch signaling in angiogenesis.
Angiogenesis involves temporo-spatially coordinated endothelial cell (EC) proliferation, differentiation, migration, and sprouting. Notch signaling is essential in regulating EC behaviors during angiogenesis, but its downstream mechanisms remain incompletely defined. In the current study, we show that miR-223-3p is a downstream molecule of Notch signaling and mediates the role of Notch signaling in regulating EC migration and sprouting. In human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), Notch activation by immobilized Dll4, a Notch ligand, upregulated miR-223-3p, and Notch activation-mediated miR-223-3p upregulation could be blocked by a gamma-secretase inhibitor (DAPT). miR-223-3p overexpression apparently repressed HUVEC migration, leading to attenuated lumen formation and sprouting capacities. Transcriptome comparison and subsequent qRT-PCR validation further indicated that miR-223-3p downregulated the expression of multiple genes involved in EC migration, axon guidance, extracellular matrix remodeling, and angiogenesis. In addition, miR-223-3p antagonist transfection abolished Notch-mediated repression of EC migration and sprouting. By quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), western blotting, and reporter assay analysis, we confirmed that miR-223-3p directly targeted F-box and WD repeat domain-containing 7 (Fbxw7). Meanwhile, Fbxw7 overexpression could efficiently rescue the impaired migration capacity of ECs under miR-223-3p overexpression. In summary, these results identify that Notch activation-induced miR-223-3p suppresses EC migration and sprouting via Fbxw7.
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