作者: Harun Elmasri , Elisa Ghelfi , Chen-wei Yu , Samantha Traphagen , Manuela Cernadas
DOI: 10.1007/S10456-012-9274-0
关键词: Endothelium 、 mTORC1 、 Cell biology 、 Downregulation and upregulation 、 Angiogenesis 、 Endothelial stem cell 、 Biology 、 Stem cell factor 、 Cell type 、 Signal transduction
摘要: Fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) plays an important role in regulation of glucose and lipid homeostasis as well inflammation through its actions adipocytes macrophages. FABP4 is also expressed a subset endothelial cells, but this cell type not known. We found that FABP4-deficient human umbilical vein cells (HUVECs) demonstrate markedly increased susceptibility to apoptosis decreased migration capillary network formation. Aortic rings from FABP4(-/-) mice demonstrated angiogenic sprouting, which was recovered by reconstitution FABP4. strongly regulated mTORC1 inhibited Rapamycin. modulated activation several signaling pathways HUVECs, including downregulation P38, eNOS, stem factor (SCF)/c-kit signaling. Of these, the SCF/c-kit pathway have major attenuated activity ECs provision exogenous SCF resulted significant recovery proliferation, survival, morphogenesis, aortic ring sprouting. These data unravel novel pro-angiogenic for cell-FABP4 suggest it could be exploited potential target diseases associated with pathological angiogenesis.