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Haiwei He1,2, Baoqi Yu2,3, Zipeng Liu4
1School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Vascular progenitor cells (VPCs) present in the adventitia of the vessel wall play a critical role in the regulation of vascular repair following injury. This study aimed to assess the function of VPCs isolated from patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS). VPCs were isolated from control and MFS donors and characterized. Compared with control-VPCs, MFS-VPCs exhibited cellular senescence as demonstrated by increased cell size, higher SA-β-gal activity and elevated levels of p53 and p21. RNA sequencing showed that several cellular process-related pathways including cell cycle and cellular senescence were significantly enriched in MFP-VPCs. Notably, the expression level of TGF-β1 was much higher in MFS-VPCs than control-VPCs. Treatment of control-VPCs with TGF-β1 significantly enhanced mitochondrial reactive oxidative species (ROS) and induced cellular senescence whereas inhibition of ROS reversed these effects. MFS-VPCs displayed increased mitochondrial fusion and decreased mitochondrial fission. Treatment of control-VPCs with TGF-β1 increased mitochondrial fusion and reduced mitochondrial fission. Nonetheless, treatment of mitofusin2 (Mfn2)-siRNA inhibited TGF-β1-induced mitochondrial fusion and cellular senescence. Furthermore, TGF-β1-induced mitochondrial fusion was mediated by the AMPK signalling pathway. Our study shows that TGF-β1 induces VPC senescence in patients with MFS by mediating mitochondrial dynamics via the AMPK signalling pathway.
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