Zhang Yu, Kontos Christopher D, Annex Brian H, Popel Aleksander S
Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA.
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
iScience. 2025 May 9;28(6):112625. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112625. eCollection 2025 Jun 20.
Dysregulated angiogenesis signaling leads to pathological vascular growth and leakage, and is a hallmark of many diseases including cancer and ocular diseases. In peripheral arterial disease, the concomitant increase in vascular permeability presents significant challenges in therapeutic efforts to improve perfusion by stimulating vascular growth. Building a mechanistic understanding of the endothelial control of vascular growth and permeability signaling is crucial to guide our efforts to identify therapeutic strategies that permit blood vessel growth while maintaining vascular stability. We develop a mechanistic systems biology model of the endothelial signaling network formed by the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin (Ang)-Tie pathways, two major signaling pathways regulating vascular growth and stability. Our model, calibrated and validated against experimental data, reveals the mechanisms through which chronic Ang1 stimulation protects endothelial cells from VEGF-induced hyperpermeability, and predicts that combining Src inhibition with Tie2 activation can inhibit vascular leakage without disturbing angiogenesis signaling.
血管生成信号失调会导致病理性血管生长和渗漏,是包括癌症和眼部疾病在内的许多疾病的一个标志。在周围动脉疾病中,血管通透性的同时增加给通过刺激血管生长来改善灌注的治疗努力带来了重大挑战。建立对血管生长和通透性信号的内皮控制的机制性理解对于指导我们识别允许血管生长同时维持血管稳定性的治疗策略的努力至关重要。我们开发了一个由血管内皮生长因子(VEGF)和血管生成素(Ang)-Tie途径形成的内皮信号网络的机制性系统生物学模型,这是调节血管生长和稳定性的两个主要信号途径。我们的模型根据实验数据进行了校准和验证,揭示了慢性Ang1刺激保护内皮细胞免受VEGF诱导的高通透性的机制,并预测将Src抑制与Tie2激活相结合可以抑制血管渗漏而不干扰血管生成信号。
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