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Dicer-dependent endothelial microRNAs are necessary for postnatal angiogenesis.


ABSTRACT: Posttranscriptional gene regulation by microRNAs (miRNAs) is important for many aspects of development, homeostasis, and disease. Here, we show that reduction of endothelial miRNAs by cell-specific inactivation of Dicer, the terminal endonuclease responsible for the generation of miRNAs, reduces postnatal angiogenic response to a variety of stimuli, including exogenous VEGF, tumors, limb ischemia, and wound healing. Furthermore, VEGF regulated the expression of several miRNAs, including the up-regulation of components of the c-Myc oncogenic cluster miR-17-92. Transfection of endothelial cells with components of the miR-17-92 cluster, induced by VEGF treatment, rescued the induced expression of thrombospondin-1 and the defect in endothelial cell proliferation and morphogenesis initiated by the loss of Dicer. Thus, endothelial miRNAs regulate postnatal angiogenesis and VEGF induces the expression of miRNAs implicated in the regulation of an integrated angiogenic response.

SUBMITTER: Suarez Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2544582 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dicer-dependent endothelial microRNAs are necessary for postnatal angiogenesis.

Suárez Yajaira Y   Fernández-Hernando Carlos C   Yu Jun J   Gerber Scott A SA   Harrison Kenneth D KD   Pober Jordan S JS   Iruela-Arispe M Luisa ML   Merkenschlager Matthias M   Sessa William C WC  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080908 37


Posttranscriptional gene regulation by microRNAs (miRNAs) is important for many aspects of development, homeostasis, and disease. Here, we show that reduction of endothelial miRNAs by cell-specific inactivation of Dicer, the terminal endonuclease responsible for the generation of miRNAs, reduces postnatal angiogenic response to a variety of stimuli, including exogenous VEGF, tumors, limb ischemia, and wound healing. Furthermore, VEGF regulated the expression of several miRNAs, including the up-r  ...[more]

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