Dataset Information

Inhibition of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP)-response Element-binding Protein (CREB)-binding Protein (CBP)/?-Catenin Reduces Liver Fibrosis in Mice.

ABSTRACT: Wnt/?-catenin is involved in every aspect of embryonic development and in the pathogenesis of many human diseases, and is also implicated in organ fibrosis. However, the role of ?-catenin-mediated signaling on liver fibrosis remains unclear. To explore this issue, the effects of PRI-724, a selective inhibitor of the cAMP-response element-binding protein-binding protein (CBP)/?-catenin interaction, on liver fibrosis were examined using carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)- or bile duct ligation (BDL)-induced mouse liver fibrosis models. Following repetitive CCl4 administrations, the nuclear translocation of ?-catenin was observed only in the non-parenchymal cells in the liver. PRI-724 treatment reduced the fibrosis induced by CCl4 or BDL. C-82, an active form of PRI-724, inhibited the activation of isolated primary mouse quiescent hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and promoted cell death in culture-activated HSCs. During the fibrosis resolution period, an increase in F4/80(+) CD11b(+) and Ly6C(low) CD11b(+) macrophages was induced by CCl4 and was sustained for two weeks thereafter, even after having stopped CCl4 treatment. PRI-724 accelerated the resolution of CCl4-induced liver fibrosis, and this was accompanied by increased matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9, MMP-2, and MMP-8 expression in intrahepatic leukocytes. In conclusion, targeting the CBP/?-catenin interaction may become a new therapeutic strategy in treating liver fibrosis.

SUBMITTER: Osawa Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4740320 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Similar Datasets

Project description:Interactions between transforming growth factor-? (TGF-?) and Wnt are crucial to many biological processes, although specific targets, rationale for divergent outcomes (differentiation versus block of epithelial proliferation versus epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)) and precise mechanisms in many cases remain unknown. We investigated ?-catenin-dependent and transforming growth factor-?1 (TGF-?1) interactions in pulmonary alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) in the context of EMT and pulmonary fibrosis. We previously demonstrated that ICG-001, a small molecule specific inhibitor of the ?-catenin/CBP (but not ?-catenin/p300) interaction, ameliorates and reverses pulmonary fibrosis and inhibits TGF-?1-mediated ?-smooth muscle actin (?-SMA) and collagen induction in AEC. We now demonstrate that TGF-?1 induces LEF/TCF TOPFLASH reporter activation and nuclear ?-catenin accumulation, while LiCl augments TGF-?-induced ?-SMA expression, further confirming co-operation between ?-catenin- and TGF-?-dependent signaling pathways. Inhibition and knockdown of Smad3, knockdown of ?-catenin and overexpression of ICAT abrogated effects of TGF-?1 on ?-SMA transcription/expression, indicating a requirement for ?-catenin in these Smad3-dependent effects. Following TGF-? treatment, co-immunoprecipitation demonstrated direct interaction between endogenous Smad3 and ?-catenin, while chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-re-ChIP identified spatial and temporal regulation of ?-SMA via complex formation among Smad3, ?-catenin, and CBP. ICG-001 inhibited ?-SMA expression/transcription in response to TGF-? as well as ?-SMA promoter occupancy by ?-catenin and CBP, demonstrating a previously unknown requisite TGF-?1/?-catenin/CBP-mediated pro-EMT signaling pathway. Clinical relevance was shown by ?-catenin/Smad3 co-localization and CBP expression in AEC of IPF patients. These findings suggest a new therapeutic approach to pulmonary fibrosis by specifically uncoupling CBP/catenin-dependent signaling downstream of TGF-?.

Project description:AIMS/INTRODUCTION:Given the high prevalence of diabetes and burn injuries worldwide, it is essential to dissect the underlying mechanism of delayed burn wound healing in diabetes patients, especially the high glucose-induced hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1)-mediated transcription defects. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Human umbilical vein endothelial cells were cultured with low or high concentrations of glucose. HIF-1?-induced vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) transcription was measured by luciferase assay. Immunofluorescence staining was carried out to visualize cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element binding protein (CREB) localization. Immunoprecipitation was carried out to characterize the association between HIF-1?/p300/CREB. To test whether p300, CREB or p300+CREB co-overexpression was sufficient to rescue the HIF-1-mediated transcription defect after high glucose exposure, p300, CREB or p300+CREB co-overexpression were engineered, and VEGF expression was quantified. Finally, in vitro angiogenesis assay was carried out to test whether the high glucose-induced angiogenesis defect is rescuable by p300 and CREB co-overexpression. RESULTS:Chronic high glucose treatment resulted in impaired HIF-1-induced VEGF transcription and CREB exclusion from the nucleus. P300 or CREB overexpression alone cannot rescue high glucose-induced HIF-1? transcription defects. In contrast, co-overexpression of p300 and CREB dramatically ameliorated high glucose-induced impairment of HIF-1-mediated VEGF transcription, as well as in vitro angiogenesis. Finally, we showed that co-overexpression of p300 and CREB rectifies the dissociation of HIF-1?-p300-CREB protein complex in chronic high glucose-treated cells. CONCLUSION:Both p300 and CREB are required for the function integrity of HIF-1? transcription machinery and subsequent angiogenesis, suggesting future studies to improve burn wound healing might be directed to optimization of the interaction between p300, CREB and HIF-1?.

Dataset Information

Inhibition of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP)-response Element-binding Protein (CREB)-binding Protein (CBP)/?-Catenin Reduces Liver Fibrosis in Mice.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets