Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, China.
Teaching Experiment Center, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Redox Biol. 2023 Jun;62:102693. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102693. Epub 2023 Apr 1.
Vascular aging contributes to adverse changes in organ function and is a significant indicator of major cardiac events. Endothelial cells (ECs) participate in aging-provoked coronary vascular pathology. Regular exercise is associated with preservation of arterial function with aging in humans. However, the molecular basis is not well understood. The present study was aimed to determine the effects of exercise on coronary endothelial senescence and whether mitochondrial clearance regulator FUN14 domain containing 1 (FUNDC1)-related mitophagy and mitochondrial homeostasis were involved. In mouse coronary arteries, FUNDC1 levels showed gradually decrease with age. Both FUNDC1 and mitophagy levels in cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) were significantly reduced in aged mice and were rescued by exercise training. Exercise also alleviated CMECs senescence as evidenced by senescence associated β-galactosidase activity and aging markers, prevented endothelial abnormal cell migration, proliferation, and eNOS activation in CMECs from aged mice, and improved endothelium-dependent vasodilation of coronary artery, reduced myocardial neutrophil infiltration and inflammatory cytokines evoked by MI/R, restored angiogenesis and consequently alleviated MI/R injury in aging. Importantly, FUNDC1 deletion abolished the protective roles of exercise and FUNDC1 overexpression in ECs with adeno-associated virus (AAV) reversed endothelial senescence and prevented MI/R injury. Mechanistically, PPARγ played an important role in regulating FUNDC1 expressions in endothelium under exercise-induced laminar shear stress. In conclusion, exercise prevents endothelial senescence in coronary arteries via increasing FUNDC1 in a PPARγ-dependent manner, and subsequently protects aged mice against MI/R injury. These findings highlight FUNDC1-mediated mitophagy as potential therapeutic target that prevents endothelial senescence and myocardial vulnerability.
血管衰老导致器官功能的不良改变,是主要心脏事件的重要指标。内皮细胞(ECs)参与衰老引起的冠状动脉血管病理学。有规律的运动与人类衰老时动脉功能的保持有关。然而,其分子基础尚不清楚。本研究旨在确定运动对冠状动脉内皮衰老的影响,以及线粒体清除调节剂 FUN14 结构域包含 1(FUNDC1)相关的线粒体自噬和线粒体稳态是否参与其中。在小鼠冠状动脉中,FUNDC1 水平随年龄逐渐降低。老年小鼠心脏微血管内皮细胞(CMECs)中的 FUNDC1 和自噬水平均显著降低,运动训练可使其恢复。运动还减轻了 CMECs 的衰老,表现在衰老相关β-半乳糖苷酶活性和衰老标志物增加,防止了衰老小鼠 CMECs 中内皮异常细胞迁移、增殖和 eNOS 激活,并改善了冠状动脉内皮依赖性血管舒张,减少了 MI/R 引起的心肌中性粒细胞浸润和炎症细胞因子,恢复了血管生成,从而减轻了衰老小鼠的 MI/R 损伤。重要的是,FUNDC1 缺失消除了运动和过表达 FUNDC1 在 ECs 中的保护作用,腺相关病毒(AAV)逆转了内皮衰老并防止了 MI/R 损伤。机制上,PPARγ 在运动引起的层流剪切应力下对内皮中 FUNDC1 的表达起重要调节作用。总之,运动通过增加内皮中依赖于 PPARγ的 FUNDC1 来防止冠状动脉内皮衰老,从而保护老年小鼠免受 MI/R 损伤。这些发现强调了 FUNDC1 介导的线粒体自噬作为预防内皮衰老和心肌易损性的潜在治疗靶点。
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