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Hyperoxia impairs pro-angiogenic RNA production in preterm endothelial colony-forming cells

  • Received: 09 January 2017 Accepted: 10 April 2017 Published: 19 April 2017
  • Disruptions in the response of endothelial progenitor cells to changes in oxygen environment may present a possible mechanism behind multiple pediatric pulmonary disease models, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Using high-throughput fixed single-cell protein and RNA imaging, we have created “stop-motion” movies of Thymosin β4 (Tβ4) and Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1α (HIF-1α) protein expression and vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) mRNA in human umbilical cord-derived endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFC). ECFC were grown in vitro under both room air and hyperoxia (50% O2). We find elevated basal Tβ4 protein expression in ECFC derived from prematurely born infants versus full term infants. Tβ4 is a potent growth hormone that additionally acts as an actin sequestration protein and regulates the stability of HIF-1α. This basal level increase of Tβ4 is associated with lower HIF-1α nuclear localization in preterm versus term ECFC upon exposure to hyperoxia. We find altered expression in the pro-angiogenic genes vegf and eNOS, two genes that HIF-1α acts as a transcription factor for. This provides a potential link between a developmentally regulated protein and previously observed impaired function of preterm ECFC in response to hyperoxia.

    Citation: Megan A. Ahern, Claudine P. Black, Gregory J. Seedorf, Christopher D. Baker, Douglas P. Shepherd. Hyperoxia impairs pro-angiogenic RNA production in preterm endothelial colony-forming cells[J]. AIMS Biophysics, 2017, 4(2): 284-297. doi: 10.3934/biophy.2017.2.284

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  • Disruptions in the response of endothelial progenitor cells to changes in oxygen environment may present a possible mechanism behind multiple pediatric pulmonary disease models, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Using high-throughput fixed single-cell protein and RNA imaging, we have created “stop-motion” movies of Thymosin β4 (Tβ4) and Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1α (HIF-1α) protein expression and vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) mRNA in human umbilical cord-derived endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFC). ECFC were grown in vitro under both room air and hyperoxia (50% O2). We find elevated basal Tβ4 protein expression in ECFC derived from prematurely born infants versus full term infants. Tβ4 is a potent growth hormone that additionally acts as an actin sequestration protein and regulates the stability of HIF-1α. This basal level increase of Tβ4 is associated with lower HIF-1α nuclear localization in preterm versus term ECFC upon exposure to hyperoxia. We find altered expression in the pro-angiogenic genes vegf and eNOS, two genes that HIF-1α acts as a transcription factor for. This provides a potential link between a developmentally regulated protein and previously observed impaired function of preterm ECFC in response to hyperoxia.


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