RGD Reference Report - Adventitial Sca1+ Cells Transduced With ETV2 Are Committed to the Endothelial Fate and Improve Vascular Remodeling After Injury. - Rat Genome Database

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Adventitial Sca1+ Cells Transduced With ETV2 Are Committed to the Endothelial Fate and Improve Vascular Remodeling After Injury.

Authors: Le Bras, Alexandra  Yu, Baoqi  Issa Bhaloo, Shirin  Hong, Xuechong  Zhang, Zhongyi  Hu, Yanhua  Xu, Qingbo 
Citation: Le Bras A, etal., Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2018 Jan;38(1):232-244. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.309853. Epub 2017 Nov 30.
RGD ID: 156451665
Pubmed: PMID:29191922   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC5757665   (View Article at PubMed Central)
DOI: DOI:10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.309853   (Journal Full-text)


OBJECTIVE: Vascular adventitial Sca1+ (stem cell antigen-1) progenitor cells preferentially differentiate into smooth muscle cells, which contribute to vascular remodeling and neointima formation in vessel grafts. Therefore, directing the differentiation of Sca1+ cells toward the endothelial lineage could represent a new therapeutic strategy against vascular disease.
APPROACH AND RESULTS: We thus developed a fast, reproducible protocol based on the single-gene transfer of ETV2 (ETS variant 2) to differentiate Sca1+ cells toward the endothelial fate and studied the effect of cell conversion on vascular hyperplasia in a model of endothelial injury. After ETV2 transduction, Sca1+ adventitial cells presented a significant increase in the expression of early endothelial cell genes, including VE-cadherin, Flk-1, and Tie2 at the mRNA and protein levels. ETV2 overexpression also induced the downregulation of a panel of smooth muscle cell and mesenchymal genes through epigenetic regulations, by decreasing the expression of DNA-modifying enzymes ten-eleven translocation dioxygenases. Adventitial Sca1+ cells grafted on the adventitial side of wire-injured femoral arteries increased vascular wall hyperplasia compared with control arteries with no grafted cells. Arteries seeded with ETV2-transduced cells, on the contrary, showed reduced hyperplasia compared with control.
CONCLUSIONS: These data give evidence that the genetic manipulation of vascular progenitors is a promising approach to improve vascular function after endothelial injury.



RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
ETV2HumanAortic Remodeling amelioratesISOEtv2 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Etv2RatAortic Remodeling amelioratesISOEtv2 (Mus musculus) RGD 
Etv2MouseAortic Remodeling amelioratesIDA  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Etv2  (ETS variant transcription factor 2)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Etv2  (ets variant 2)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
ETV2  (ETS variant transcription factor 2)


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