Vascular endothelial cell growth-activated XBP1 splicing in endothelial cells is crucial for angiogenesis.

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Zeng L, Xiao Q, Chen M, Margariti A, Martin D, Ivetic A, Xu H, Mason J, Wang W, Cockerill G, Mori K, Li JY, Chien S, Hu Y, Xu Q

Vascular endothelial cell growth-activated XBP1 splicing in endothelial cells is crucial for angiogenesis.

Circulation. 2013 Apr 23;127(16):1712-22. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.001337. Epub 2013 Mar 25.

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BACKGROUND: Vascular endothelial cell growth factor plays a pivotal role in angiogenesis via regulating endothelial cell proliferation. The X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) is believed to be a signal transducer in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response. It is unknown whether there is crosstalk between vascular endothelial cell growth factor signaling and XBP1 pathway. METHODS AND RESULTS: We found that vascular endothelial cell growth factor induced the kinase insert domain receptor internalization and interaction through C-terminal domain with the unspliced XBP1 and the inositol requiring enzyme 1 alpha in the endoplasmic reticulum, leading to inositol requiring enzyme 1 alpha phosphorylation and XBP1 mRNA splicing, which was abolished by siRNA-mediated knockdown of kinase insert domain receptor. Spliced XBP1 regulated endothelial cell proliferation in a PI3K/Akt/GSK3beta/beta-catenin/E2F2-dependent manner and modulated the cell size increase in a PI3K/Akt/GSK3beta/beta-catenin/E2F2-independent manner. Knockdown of XBP1 or inositol requiring enzyme 1 alpha decreased endothelial cell proliferation via suppression of Akt/GSK3beta phosphorylation, beta-catenin nuclear translocation, and E2F2 expression. Endothelial cell-specific knockout of XBP1 (XBP1ecko) in mice retarded the retinal vasculogenesis in the first 2 postnatal weeks and impaired the angiogenesis triggered by ischemia. Reconstitution of XBP1 by Ad-XBP1s gene transfer significantly improved angiogenesis in ischemic tissue in XBP1ecko mice. Transplantation of bone marrow from wild-type o XBP1ecko mice could also slightly improve the foot blood reperfusion in ischemic XBP1ecko mice. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that XBP1 can function via growth factor signaling pathways to regulate endothelial proliferation and angiogenesis.

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Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2P35968Details