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Perlecan regulates pericyte dynamics in the maintenance and repair of the blood-brain barrier.


ABSTRACT: Ischemic stroke causes blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown due to significant damage to the integrity of BBB components. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of pericytes in the repair process of BBB functions triggered by PDGFR? up-regulation. Here, we show that perlecan, a major heparan sulfate proteoglycan of basement membranes, aids in BBB maintenance and repair through pericyte interactions. Using a transient middle cerebral artery occlusion model, we found larger infarct volumes and more BBB leakage in conditional perlecan (Hspg2)-deficient (Hspg2 - / - -TG) mice than in control mice. Control mice showed increased numbers of pericytes in the ischemic lesion, whereas Hspg2 - / - -TG mice did not. At the mechanistic level, pericytes attached to recombinant perlecan C-terminal domain V (perlecan DV, endorepellin). Perlecan DV enhanced the PDGF-BB-induced phosphorylation of PDGFR?, SHP-2, and FAK partially through integrin ?5?1 and promoted pericyte migration. Perlecan therefore appears to regulate pericyte recruitment through the cooperative functioning of PDGFR? and integrin ?5?1 to support BBB maintenance and repair following ischemic stroke.

SUBMITTER: Nakamura K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6781430 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Perlecan regulates pericyte dynamics in the maintenance and repair of the blood-brain barrier.

Nakamura Kuniyuki K   Ikeuchi Tomoko T   Nara Kazuki K   Rhodes Craig S CS   Zhang Peipei P   Chiba Yuta Y   Kazuno Saiko S   Miura Yoshiki Y   Ago Tetsuro T   Arikawa-Hirasawa Eri E   Mukouyama Yoh-Suke YS   Yamada Yoshihiko Y  

The Journal of cell biology 20190920 10


Ischemic stroke causes blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown due to significant damage to the integrity of BBB components. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of pericytes in the repair process of BBB functions triggered by PDGFRβ up-regulation. Here, we show that perlecan, a major heparan sulfate proteoglycan of basement membranes, aids in BBB maintenance and repair through pericyte interactions. Using a transient middle cerebral artery occlusion model, we found larger infarct volumes  ...[more]

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