项目名称: TRPC6在VEGF调节新生血管形成中的作用及机制
项目编号: No.30872989
项目类型: 面上项目
立项/批准年度: 2009
项目学科: 轻工业、手工业
项目作者: 葛瑞良
作者单位: 中国人民解放军第二军医大学
项目金额: 30万元
中文摘要: 血管生成在肿瘤的形成与转移中起到重要作用,通过干扰血管形成抗肿瘤已在临床治疗取得巨大成功。钙离子在VEGF刺激新生血管形成信号传导中起到了重要的作用,但其过程中钙离子水平具体调控机制仍未完全明确。TRPC是一种新发现的非选择性钙离子通道, 本研究根据预实验结果,提出TRPC6参与VEGF信号传导调节血管形成这一假设。用TRPC通道抑制剂和siRNA、显性抑制技术干扰该通道蛋白的表达和功能,观察TRPC6被抑制前后人脐静脉血管内皮细胞(HUVEC)内钙离子水平的变化,细胞体外增殖、成管能力的改变,以及鸡胚尿囊膜新生血管形成的差异。结果发现:TRPC6通道存在于血管内皮细胞中,应用SKF-96365和siRNA方法阻滞TRPC6的通道功能后,HUVEC细胞的增殖被明显抑制,胞内游离钙离子浓度降低,细胞被阻滞在G2/M期,同时细胞的成管能力减弱。鸡胚尿囊膜实验证明TRPC通道被阻滞后,VEGF引起的新生血管形成作用减弱。本研究探索了抗肿瘤新生血管形成治疗新的细胞膜上靶点,同时也拓展了TRPC通道的研究领域。
中文关键词: TRPC6;新生血管形成;VEGF;增殖
英文摘要: Angiogenesis is important for development, tumor growth and metastasis. Intracellular Ca2+ and its signaling play critical roles in VEGF-mediated angiogenesis. Transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC) channel 6, a Ca2+-permeable nonselective cation channel, can be activated by VEGF. However, whether TRPC6 mediates the effect of VEGF on angiogenesis is unknown. Here, we report that TRPC6 is important for VEGF-mediated angiogenesis. Using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) as a cell model, we found that pharmacological blockade of TRPCs inhibited the VEGF-induced intracellular Ca2+ elevation, suppressed the proliferation and tube formation of HUVECs. Inhibition of TRPC6 by a dominant negative mutant of TRPC6 and lentivirus-based RNAi arrested HUVECs at G2/M phase and greatly suppressed the VEGF-induced HUVEC proliferation and tube formation. Finally, inhibition of TRPCs abolished the VEGF-, but not FGF-, induced angiogenesis in the chick embryo chorioallantoicmembrane. These results suggest that TRPC6 plays an important role in VEGF-mediated angiogenesis.
英文关键词: TRPC6 ; angiogenesis; VEGF; proliferation