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FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.881286
关键词
trabecular meshwork; cationic mechanosensitive channels; mechanical stretching; proteomics analysis; IOP homeostasis
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFA0109500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81870653]
- Shandong Key Research and Development Program [2019GSF107075]
- Taishan Scholar Youth Expert Program [tsqn202103055]
The study found that cationic mechanosensitive channels (CMCs) play a key role in mediating the trabecular meshwork (TM) responses to mechanical forces and influence aqueous humor outflow. Inhibiting CMCs significantly affected several biochemical pathways, including calcium channel activity, microtubule cytoskeleton, Toll-like receptor signaling, and neuron cell fate specification.
The trabecular meshwork (TM) is responsible for intraocular pressure (IOP) homeostasis in the eye. The tissue senses IOP fluctuations and dynamically adapts to the mechanical changes to either increase or decrease aqueous humor outflow. Cationic mechanosensitive channels (CMCs) have been reported to play critical roles in mediating the TM responses to mechanical forces. However, how CMCs influence TM cellular function affect aqueous humor drainage is still elusive. In this study, human TM (HTM) cells were collected from a Chinese donor and subjected to cyclically equiaxial stretching with an amplitude of 20% at 1 Hz GsMTx4, a non-selective inhibitor for CMCs, was added to investigate the proteomic changes induced by CMCs in response to mechanical stretch of HTM. Gene ontology enrichment analysis demonstrated that inhibition of CMCs significantly influenced several biochemical pathways, including store-operated calcium channel activity, microtubule cytoskeleton polarity, toll-like receptor signaling pathway, and neuron cell fate specification. Through heatmap analysis, we grouped 148 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) into 21 clusters and focused on four specific patterns associated with Ca2+ homeostasis, autophagy, cell cycle, and cell fate. Our results indicated that they might be the critical downstream signals of CMCs adapting to mechanical forces and mediating AH outflow.
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