‡Intercellular Signaling in Cardiovascular Development and Disease Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, SPAIN; §Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), 28029 Madrid, SPAIN.
¶Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019 Sep;18(9):1782-1795. doi: 10.1074/mcp.RA119.001492. Epub 2019 Jun 27.
The endocardium is a specialized endothelium that lines the inner surface of the heart. Functional studies in mice and zebrafish have established that the endocardium is a source of instructive signals for the development of cardiac structures, including the heart valves and chambers. Here, we characterized the NOTCH-dependent endocardial secretome by manipulating NOTCH activity in mouse embryonic endocardial cells (MEEC) followed by mass spectrometry-based proteomics. We profiled different sets of soluble factors whose secretion not only responds to NOTCH activation but also shows differential ligand specificity, suggesting that ligand-specific inputs may regulate the expression of secreted proteins involved in different cardiac development processes. NOTCH signaling activation correlates with a transforming growth factor-β2 (TGFβ2)-rich secretome and the delivery of paracrine signals involved in focal adhesion and extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and remodeling. In contrast, NOTCH inhibition is accompanied by the up-regulation of specific semaphorins that may modulate cell migration. The secretome protein expression data showed a good correlation with gene profiling of RNA expression in embryonic endocardial cells. Additional characterization by hybridization in mouse embryos revealed expression of various NOTCH candidate effector genes (β, and n) in heart valve endocardium and/or mesenchyme. Validating these results, mice with conditional or loss-of-function mutations showed gene expression alterations similar to those observed at the protein level These results provide the first description of the NOTCH-dependent endocardial secretome and validate MEEC as a tool for assaying the endocardial secretome response to a variety of stimuli and the potential use of this system for drug screening.
心内膜是一种特化的内皮细胞,排列在心脏的内表面。在小鼠和斑马鱼中的功能研究已经确立,心内膜是心脏结构发育的指令信号源,包括心脏瓣膜和心室。在这里,我们通过操纵小鼠胚胎心内膜细胞(MEEC)中的 NOTCH 活性,然后进行基于质谱的蛋白质组学研究,来描述依赖 NOTCH 的心内膜分泌组。我们分析了不同的可溶性因子组,这些因子的分泌不仅对 NOTCH 激活有反应,而且显示出不同的配体特异性,这表明配体特异性输入可能调节参与不同心脏发育过程的分泌蛋白的表达。NOTCH 信号激活与富含转化生长因子-β2(TGFβ2)的分泌组相关,并传递涉及粘着斑和细胞外基质(ECM)沉积和重塑的旁分泌信号。相比之下,NOTCH 抑制伴随着特定的信号素的上调,这些信号素可能调节细胞迁移。分泌组蛋白表达数据与胚胎心内膜细胞的 RNA 表达基因谱具有良好的相关性。在小鼠胚胎中的杂交进一步鉴定表明,各种 NOTCH 候选效应基因(β、和 n)在心瓣膜心内膜和/或间质中表达。验证这些结果,条件性 或 缺失功能突变的小鼠显示出与在蛋白水平观察到的相似的基因表达改变。这些结果提供了 NOTCH 依赖的心内膜分泌组的首次描述,并验证了 MEEC 作为检测心内膜分泌组对各种刺激的反应的工具,以及该系统用于药物筛选的潜在用途。
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