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Sadri G, Fischer AG, Brittian KR, Elliott E, Nystoriak MA, Uchida S, Wysoczynski M, Leask A, Jones SP, Moore JB. Collagen type XIX regulates cardiac extracellular matrix structure and ventricular function. Matrix Biol 2022; 109:49-69. [PMID: 35346795 PMCID: PMC9161575 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2022.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 02/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The cardiac extracellular matrix plays essential roles in homeostasis and injury responses. Although the role of fibrillar collagens have been thoroughly documented, the functions of non-fibrillar collagen members remain underexplored. These include a distinct group of non-fibrillar collagens, termed, fibril-associated collagens with interrupted triple helices (FACITs). Recent reports of collagen type XIX (encoded by Col19a1) expression in adult heart and evidence of its enhanced expression in cardiac ischemia suggest important functions for this FACIT in cardiac ECM structure and function. Here, we examined the cellular source of collagen XIX in the adult murine heart and evaluated its involvement in ECM structure and ventricular function. Immunodetection of collagen XIX in fractionated cardiovascular cell lineages revealed fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells as the primary sources of collagen XIX in the heart. Based on echocardiographic and histologic analyses, Col19a1 null (Col19a1N/N) mice exhibited reduced systolic function, thinning of left ventricular walls, and increased cardiomyocyte cross-sectional areas-without gross changes in myocardial collagen content or basement membrane morphology. Col19a1N/N cardiac fibroblasts had augmented expression of several enzymes involved in the synthesis and stability of fibrillar collagens, including PLOD1 and LOX. Furthermore, second harmonic generation-imaged ECM derived from Col19a1N/N cardiac fibroblasts, and transmission electron micrographs of decellularized hearts from Col19a1N/N null animals, showed marked reductions in fibrillar collagen structural organization. Col19a1N/N mice also displayed enhanced phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signifying de-repression of the FAK pathway-a critical mediator of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Collectively, we show that collagen XIX, which had a heretofore unknown role in the mammalian heart, participates in the regulation of cardiac structure and function-potentially through modulation of ECM fibrillar collagen structural organization. Further, these data suggest that this FACIT may modify ECM superstructure via acting at the level of the fibroblast to regulate their expression of collagen synthetic and stabilization enzymes.
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- Ghazal Sadri
- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Center for RNA Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- College of Dentistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
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Bonafiglia QA, Bendeck M, Gotlieb AI. Vascular Pathobiology: Atherosclerosis and Large Vessel Disease. Cardiovasc Pathol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-822224-9.00006-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Neiman G, Scarafía MA, La Greca A, Santín Velazque NL, Garate X, Waisman A, Möbbs AM, Kasai-Brunswick TH, Mesquita F, Martire-Greco D, Moro LN, Luzzani C, Bastos Carvalho A, Sevlever GE, Campos de Carvalho A, Guberman AS, Miriuka SG. Integrin alpha-5 subunit is critical for the early stages of human pluripotent stem cell cardiac differentiation. Sci Rep 2019; 9:18077. [PMID: 31792288 PMCID: PMC6889169 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54352-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The stem cell niche has a strong influence in the differentiation potential of human pluripotent stem cells with integrins playing a major role in communicating cells with the extracellular environment. However, it is not well understood how interactions between integrins and the extracellular matrix are involved in cardiac stem cell differentiation. To evaluate this, we performed a profile of integrins expression in two stages of cardiac differentiation: mesodermal progenitors and cardiomyocytes. We found an active regulation of the expression of different integrins during cardiac differentiation. In particular, integrin α5 subunit showed an increased expression in mesodermal progenitors, and a significant downregulation in cardiomyocytes. To analyze the effect of α5 subunit, we modified its expression by using a CRISPRi technique. After its downregulation, a significant impairment in the process of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition was seen. Early mesoderm development was significantly affected due to a downregulation of key genes such as T Brachyury and TBX6. Furthermore, we observed that repression of integrin α5 during early stages led to a reduction in cardiomyocyte differentiation and impaired contractility. In summary, our results showed the link between changes in cell identity with the regulation of integrin α5 expression through the alteration of early stages of mesoderm commitment.
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- Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Regulación Génica en Células Madre, Departamento de Química Biológica y Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- LIAN-CONICET, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Consejo Nacional sobre Investgaciones Científicas y Técnias (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Bidone TC, Skeeters AV, Oakes PW, Voth GA. Multiscale model of integrin adhesion assembly. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1007077. [PMID: 31163027 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The ability of adherent cells to form adhesions is critical to numerous phases of their physiology. The assembly of adhesions is mediated by several types of integrins. These integrins differ in physical properties, including rate of diffusion on the plasma membrane, rapidity of changing conformation from bent to extended, affinity for extracellular matrix ligands, and lifetimes of their ligand-bound states. However, the way in which nanoscale physical properties of integrins ensure proper adhesion assembly remains elusive. We observe experimentally that both β-1 and β-3 integrins localize in nascent adhesions at the cell leading edge. In order to understand how different nanoscale parameters of β-1 and β-3 integrins mediate proper adhesion assembly, we therefore develop a coarse-grained computational model. Results from the model demonstrate that morphology and distribution of nascent adhesions depend on ligand binding affinity and strength of pairwise interactions. Organization of nascent adhesions depends on the relative amounts of integrins with different bond kinetics. Moreover, the model shows that the architecture of an actin filament network does not perturb the total amount of integrin clustering and ligand binding; however, only bundled actin architectures favor adhesion stability and ultimately maturation. Together, our results support the view that cells can finely tune the expression of different integrin types to determine both structural and dynamic properties of adhesions.
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Wu X, Muthuchamy M, Reddy DS. Atomic force microscopy investigations of fibronectin and α5β1-integrin signaling in neuroplasticity and seizure susceptibility in experimental epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2017; 138:71-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2017.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Revised: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Tangney JR, Chuang JS, Janssen MS, Krishnamurthy A, Liao P, Hoshijima M, Wu X, Meininger GA, Muthuchamy M, Zemljic-Harpf A, Ross RS, Frank LR, McCulloch AD, Omens JH. Novel role for vinculin in ventricular myocyte mechanics and dysfunction. Biophys J 2013; 104:1623-33. [PMID: 23561539 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Revised: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Vinculin (Vcl) plays a key structural role in ventricular myocytes that, when disrupted, can lead to contractile dysfunction and dilated cardiomyopathy. To investigate the role of Vcl in myocyte and myocardial function, cardiomyocyte-specific Vcl knockout mice (cVclKO) and littermate control wild-type mice were studied with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tagging before the onset of global ventricular dysfunction. MRI revealed significantly decreased systolic strains transverse to the myofiber axis in vivo, but no changes along the muscle fibers or in fiber tension in papillary muscles from heterozygous global Vcl null mice. Myofilament lattice spacing from TEM was significantly greater in cVclKO versus wild-type hearts fixed in the unloaded state. AFM in Vcl heterozygous null mouse myocytes showed a significant decrease in membrane cortical stiffness. A multiscale computational model of ventricular mechanics incorporating cross-bridge geometry and lattice mechanics showed that increased transverse systolic stiffness due to increased lattice spacing may explain the systolic wall strains associated with Vcl deficiency, before the onset of ventricular dysfunction. Loss of cardiac myocyte Vcl may decrease systolic transverse strains in vivo by decreasing membrane cortical tension, which decreases transverse compression of the lattice thereby increasing interfilament spacing and stress transverse to the myofibers.
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- Jared R Tangney
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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Lin GL, Cohen DM, Desai RA, Breckenridge MT, Gao L, Humphries MJ, Chen CS. Activation of beta 1 but not beta 3 integrin increases cell traction forces. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:763-9. [PMID: 23395612 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Revised: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Cell-generated traction forces induce integrin activation, leading to focal adhesion growth and cell spreading. It remains unknown, however, whether integrin activation feeds back to impact the generation of cytoskeletal tension. Here, we used elastomeric micropost arrays to measure cellular traction forces in wildtype and integrin-null cells. We report that activation of β1 but not β3 integrin, by either increasing density of immobilized fibronectin or treating with manganese, elicited fibroblast spreading and cytoskeletal tension. Furthermore, this force generation required Rho kinase and myosin activity. These findings suggest that integrin activation and cell traction forces comprise a bi-directional signaling unit of cell adhesion.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Differences in local blood flow patterns along the endothelium may trigger abnormal vascular responses which can have profound pathophysiological consequences. While endothelial cells exposed to laminar blood flow (high shear stress) are protected from atherosclerosis formation, turbulent or disturbed blood flow, which occurs at bends and bifurcations of blood vessels, facilitates atherosclerosis formation. Here, we will highlight the endothelial cell mechanisms involved in detecting shear stress and their translation into downstream biochemical signals. RECENT FINDINGS Prior evidence supports a role for integrins as mechanotransducers in the endothelium by promoting phosphorylation of different targets through the activation of focal adhesion kinase. Our recent findings show that integrins contact integrin-linked kinase and regulate vasomotor responses by an endothelial nitric oxide synthase-dependent mechanism, which stabilizes the production of vasoactive factor nitric oxide. In addition, different structures of endothelial cells, mainly primary cilia, are investigated, as they can explain the differential responses to laminar versus disturbed flow. SUMMARY The discovery of a connection between endothelial cell structures such as cilia, integrin, extracellular matrix, and signaling events opens today a new chapter in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating vascular responses to the changes in flow.
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- Carlos Zaragoza
- National Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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This review focuses on the neurobiology of integrins, pathophysiological roles of integrins in neuroplasticity and nervous system disorders, and therapeutic implications of integrins as potential drug targets and possible delivery pathways. Neuroplasticity is a central phenomenon in many neurological conditions such as seizures, trauma, and traumatic brain injury. During the course of many brain diseases, in addition to intracellular compartment changes, alterations in non-cell compartments such as extracellular matrix (ECM) are recognized as an essential process in forming and reorganizing neural connections. Integrins are heterodimeric transmembrane receptors that mediate cell-ECM and cell-cell adhesion events. Although the mechanisms of neuroplasticity remain unclear, it has been suggested that integrins undergo plasticity including clustering through interactions with ECM proteins, modulating ion channels, intracellular Ca(2+) and protein kinase signaling, and reorganization of cytoskeletal filaments. As cell surface receptors, integrins are central to the pathophysiology of many brain diseases, such as epilepsy, and are potential targets for the development of new drugs for neurological disorders.
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- Xin Wu
- Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan, TX 77807, USA
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Sarin V, Muthuchamy M, Heaps CL. Ca²⁺ sensitization of cardiac myofilament proteins contributes to exercise training-enhanced myocardial function in a porcine model of chronic occlusion. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2011; 301:H1579-87. [PMID: 21856915 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00294.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Exercise training has been shown to improve cardiac dysfunction in both patients and animal models of coronary artery disease; however, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms have not been completely understood. We hypothesized that exercise training would improve force generation in the myocardium distal to chronic coronary artery occlusion via altered intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) cycling and/or Ca(2+) sensitization of myofilaments. Ameroid occluders were surgically placed around the proximal left circumflex coronary artery of adult female Yucatan pigs. Twenty-two weeks postoperatively, the myocardium was isolated from nonoccluded (left anterior descending artery dependent) and collateral-dependent (formerly left circumflex coronary artery dependent) regions of sedentary (pen confined) and exercise-trained (treadmill run, 5 days/wk for 14 wk) pigs. Force measurements in myocardial strips showed that the percent change in force at stimulation frequencies of 3 and 4 Hz relative to 1 Hz was significantly higher in exercise-trained pigs compared with sedentary pigs. β-Adrenergic stimulation with dobutamine significantly improved force kinetics in myocardial strips of sedentary but not exercise-trained pigs at 1 Hz. Additionally, time to peak and half-decay of intracellular Ca(2+) (340-to-380-nm fluoresence ratio) responses at 1 Hz were significantly decreased in the collateral-dependent region of exercise-trained pigs with no difference in peak [Ca(2+)](i) between groups. Furthermore, the skinned myocardium from exercise-trained pigs showed an increase in Ca(2+) sensitivity compared with sedentary pigs. Immunoblot analysis revealed that the relative levels of cardiac troponin T and β(1)-adrenergic receptors were decreased in hearts from exercise-trained pigs independent of occlusion. Also, the ratio of phosphorylated to total myosin light chain-2, basal phosphorylation levels of cardiac troponin I (Ser(23) and Ser(24)), and cardiac myosin binding protein-C (Ser(282)) were unaltered by occlusion or exercise training. Thus, our data demonstrate that exercise training-enhanced force generation in the nonoccluded and collateral-dependent myocardium was associated with improved Ca(2+) transients, increased Ca(2+) sensitization of myofilament proteins, and decreased expression levels of β(1)-adrenergic receptors and cardiac troponin T.
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- Vandana Sarin
- Michael E. DeBakey Institute for Comparative Cardiovascular Science and Biomedical Devices, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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