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SUBMITTER: Beard RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5036164 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beard Richard S RS Yang Xiaoyuan X Meegan Jamie E JE Overstreet Jonathan W JW Yang Clement G Y CG Elliott John A JA Reynolds Jason J JJ Cha Byeong J BJ Pivetti Christopher D CD Mitchell David A DA Wu Mack H MH Deschenes Robert J RJ Yuan Sarah Y SY
Nature communications 20160922
Endothelial dysfunction is a hallmark of systemic inflammatory response underlying multiple organ failure. Here we report a novel function of DHHC-containing palmitoyl acyltransferases (PATs) in mediating endothelial inflammation. Pharmacological inhibition of PATs attenuates barrier leakage and leucocyte adhesion induced by endothelial junction hyperpermeability and ICAM-1 expression during inflammation. Among 11 DHHCs detected in vascular endothelium, DHHC21 is required for barrier response. M ...[more]