Need glucose to sprout: local metabolic control of angiogenesis.
Need glucose to sprout: local metabolic control of angiogenesis.
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DOI:
10.1002/emmm.201303174
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发表时间:
2013-10
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Simons, Michael
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作者:
Eichmann, Anne;Simons, Michael
Much of the focus of research in angiogenesis has been on the molecular mechanisms regulating various critical endothelial cell processes such as migration, proliferation and capillary sprouting. This has led to a number of insights including the key roles played by VEGF signalling in initiating angiogenesis (Chung & Ferrara, 2011; Koch & Claesson‐Welsh, 2012) and Notch signalling in regulating its extent via control of these processes (Benedito & Hellstrom, 2013; Cristofaro et al, 2013; Thomas et al, 2013). This further evolved into therapeutic approaches designed to control angiogenesis by regulation of these signalling events that are now understood in a significant amount of detail. Yet little attention however has been paid so far to the metabolic cost of angiogenesis. All active cellular events, including the ones referred to above, require the expenditure of energy. The underlying assumption has always been that energy (eg. ATP) is abundant and is not a limiting factor as endothelial cells are typically found in the high oxygen environment of blood flow. Indeed, while arterial endothelium is bathed in blood with nearly 100mm Hg of partial pressure of oxygen (PO2), even venous and lymphatic endothelial cells are exposed to a much higher PO2 (40mmHg) than most other tissues. Furthermore, essentially all studies of growth factor signalling in vitro that have given us our current understanding of VEGF and Notch biology, have also been carried out in high oxygen environments. Yet in many instances angiogenesis is initiated in low oxygen‐environments: consider the developing retina or tumour vasculature where tip cells, an endothelial cell subset that largely is responsible for initiation of new capillary growth, may well be in O2‐limited environment. In this context, the recent study of De Bock et al (2013) is especially timely and important. The authors show that endothelial cells, even in a high oxygen environment, generate most of their energy via glycolysis and not via oxidative or fatty acid metabolism. Furthermore, ATP is generated in this fashion throughout the cell including at lamellipodia, which are crucial to capillary tip cell sprouting. Finally, the availability of energy is itself a key factor controlling sprouting: a sufficient supply of energy is enough to overcome the suppressive effect of Notch signalling that hitherto was considered to be the dominant signalling mechanism controlling this event. These observations propel considerations of endothelial metabolism to the centre stage. The authors concentrated their attention on the initial key step of glycolysis: conversion of fructose‐6‐phosphate to fructose‐1, 6‐biphosphate. This is accomplished by the rate‐limiting enzyme phosphofructokinase‐1 (PFK1). PFK1 activity, in turn, is modulated by an allosteric regulator, fructose‐2, 6‐bisphosphate (Fru‐2, 6‐BP). The latter is also produced from fructose‐6‐phosphate by another enzyme, 6‐phosphofructo‐2‐kinase/fructose‐2, 6‐bisphosphatase‐3 (PFKFB3) also known as phosphofructokinase‐2 (PFK2)(Fig 1A). PFKFB3 is one of four closely related proteins in the PFKFB family and is the predominant isoform expressed in endothelial cells. Interestingly, the expression of the molecule itself is regulated by HIF‐1a‐(Obach et al, 2004) and AMPK (Mendoza et al, 2012), an essential step in driving endothelial metabolism under energy‐limiting circumstances. Endothelial deletion of PFKFB3 resulted in impaired angiogenesis that was characterized by a reduction in endothelial sprouting in vitro and in vivo. In mosaic sprouting assays the number of PFKFB3‐deficient cells was reduced at the tip position. At the cellular level there was a decrease in lamellipodia …
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