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泛素特异性蛋白酶7通过促进转化生长因子β2信号介导的内皮-间充质转化和冠状动脉重塑加重川崎病。

Involvement of USP7 in aggravating Kawasaki disease by promoting TGFβ2 signaling mediated endothelial-mesenchymal transition and coronary artery remodeling.

作者信息

Qian Guanghui, Wang Yan, Yao Hongwei, Zhang Zimu, Wang Wang, Xu Lei, Li Wenjie, Huang Li, Li Xuan, Gao Yang, Wang Nana, Wang Shuhui, Pan Jian, Lv Haitao

机构信息

Institute of Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215025 Jiangsu, China.

Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Xuzhou Children's Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province 221000, China.

出版信息

Int Immunopharmacol. 2025 Jan 27;146:113823. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2024.113823. Epub 2024 Dec 13.

Abstract

Kawasaki disease (KD), characterized by systematic vasculitis, is a leading cause of pediatric heart disease. Although recent studies have highlighted the critical role of deubiquitinases in vascular pathophysiology, their specific contribution to KD remains largely unknown. Herein, we investigated the function of the deubiquitinase USP7 in both KD patients and a CAWS-induced KD murine model. USP7 expression level is increased both in HCAECs induced by KD sera and cardiac CD31 endothelial cells of KD mice. Whereas knockout of USP7 increases the cellular proportion of endothelial cells and potentially attenuates the elevated EndoMT, fibrosis, and inflammation in cardiac tissue of KD mice, consistently with the in vitro experiment observed in HCAECs induced by TGF-β2. Mechanistically, USP7 interacts with SMAD2/3, enhancing their protein stability by removing the K48 ubiquitin chain from both proteins and preventing their proteasome degradation, thus increasing the p-SMAD2 levels and nuclear entry. Importantly, intraperitoneal injection of USP7 inhibitor, P22077 elicited a robust anti-EndoMT and anti-vascular inflammation effect in KD model mice. Therefore, our study uncovered a previously unrecognized function of increased USP7 in KD by augmenting TGFβ2/SMAD2/SMAD3 signaling, thus facilitating the transcription of genes implicated in the EndoMT, cardiac fibrosis, and vascular remodeling. Our finding suggests that USP7 could serve as a potential therapeutic target for the prevention and treatment of coronary artery lesions in KD and related vascular diseases.

摘要

川崎病(KD)以系统性血管炎为特征,是小儿心脏病的主要病因。尽管最近的研究强调了去泛素化酶在血管病理生理学中的关键作用,但其对KD的具体贡献仍 largely unknown。在此,我们研究了去泛素化酶USP7在KD患者和CAWS诱导的KD小鼠模型中的功能。在KD血清诱导的人冠状动脉内皮细胞(HCAECs)和KD小鼠的心脏CD31内皮细胞中,USP7表达水平均升高。而USP7基因敲除增加了内皮细胞的细胞比例,并可能减弱KD小鼠心脏组织中升高的内皮-间充质转化(EndoMT)、纤维化和炎症,这与在TGF-β2诱导的HCAECs中观察到的体外实验结果一致。机制上,USP7与SMAD2/3相互作用,通过去除这两种蛋白质上的K48泛素链并防止它们被蛋白酶体降解来增强其蛋白质稳定性,从而增加p-SMAD2水平并使其进入细胞核。重要的是,腹腔注射USP7抑制剂P22077在KD模型小鼠中引发了强大的抗EndoMT和抗血管炎症作用。因此,我们的研究揭示了USP7增加在KD中的一种先前未被认识的功能,即增强TGFβ2/SMAD2/SMAD3信号传导,从而促进与EndoMT、心脏纤维化和血管重塑相关基因的转录。我们的发现表明,USP7可能作为预防和治疗KD及相关血管疾病中冠状动脉病变的潜在治疗靶点。

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