Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cardiovascular Disease.
Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cardiovascular Disease.
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心血管疾病中的内皮-间质转化。
DOI:
10.1161/atvbaha.121.313788
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发表时间:
2021-09
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Bischoff J
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作者:
Alvandi Z;Bischoff J
Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) is a dynamic process in which endothelial cells suppress constituent endothelial properties and take on mesenchymal cell behaviors. To begin the process, endothelial cells loosen their cell-cell junctions, degrade the basement membrane and migrate out into the perivascular surroundings. These initial endothelial behaviors reflect a transient modulation of cellular phenotype, i.e., a phenotypic modulation, that is sometimes referred to as partial EndMT. Loosening of endothelial junctions and migration are also seen in inflammatory and angiogenic settings such that endothelial cells initiating EndMT have overlapping behaviors and gene expression with endothelial cells responding to inflammatory signals or sprouting to form new blood vessels. Reduced endothelial junctions increases permeability, which facilitates leukocyte trafficking, while endothelial migration precedes angiogenic sprouting and neovascularization; both endothelial barriers and quiescence are restored as inflammatory and angiogenic stimuli subside. Complete EndMT proceeds beyond phenotypic modulation such that mesenchymal characteristics become prominent and endothelial functions diminish. In pro-adaptive, regenerative settings the new mesenchymal cells produce extracellular matrix and contribute to tissue integrity whereas in mal-adaptive, pathologic settings the new mesenchymal cells become fibrotic, overproducing matrix to cause tissue stiffness, which eventually impacts function. Here we will review what is known about how transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) influences this continuum from junctional loosening to cellular migration and its relevance to cardiovascular diseases. TGFβ1-3 and Wnt signaling initiate EndMT while laminar shear stress-induced ERK5 and KLF2/4 along with FGFR1 and BMPR2 signaling prevent EndMT. Acetyl CoA, by enhancing fatty acid oxidation, also minimizes EndMT. Endothelial cell morphology changes dramatically during EndMT as transcription factors Snail1 and Slug suppress endothelial genes and increase mesenchymal genes.