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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-9-9
pubmed:abstractText
Endothelial cells (ECs) in blood vessels under formation are stabilized by the recruitment of pericytes, both in normal tissues and during angiogenesis in pathologic situations, including neoplasia. In the tumor vasculature, besides supporting the functionality of blood flow, pericytes protect ECs from antiangiogenic therapies, and have thus been implicated in clinical resistance to vascular targeting drugs. However, the molecular nature of the crosstalk between pericytes and ECs is largely unchartered. Herein, we identified pericyte-induced survival signals in ECs by isolation of vascular fragments derived from tumors that had been genetically or pharmacologically engineered to be either pericyte-rich or pericyte-poor. Pericytes induced the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-w in tumor ECs both in vivo and in vitro, thereby conveying protection from cytotoxic damage. The pericyte-dependent survival signaling in ECs was consequential to enforcement of an autocrine loop involving VEGF-A expression in ECs. Through molecular and functional studies, we delineated a signal transduction pathway in ECs downstream of integrin ?(v) involving activation of NF-?B as the initiating event of the protective crosstalk from pericytes. Our elucidation of pericyte-derived pro-survival signaling in tumor ECs has potentially important implications for clinical development of antiangiogenic drugs, and suggests new therapeutic targets for rational multitargeting of cancer.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bcl2l2 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GTPase-Activating Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-sis, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ralbp1 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Markers, Biological, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Vinblastine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/vascular endothelial growth factor...
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1528-0020
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
118
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2906-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Autocrine Communication, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-GTPase-Activating Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Islets of Langerhans, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Melanoma, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Neovascularization, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Pericytes, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-sis, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Tumor Markers, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, pubmed-meshheading:21778339-Vinblastine
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Pericytes promote endothelial cell survival through induction of autocrine VEGF-A signaling and Bcl-w expression.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Division of Vascular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't