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1 Falk Symposium 162: Leberzirrhose: Von der Pathophysiologie zur Klinik 13. Oktober 2007 Ralf Weiskirchen Institute of linical hemistry and Pathobiochemistry, UKA Growth factors in experimental liver fibrogenesis

2 ytokines in Liver Fibrogenesis Inflammation Fibrosis General PRO- ANTI- PRO- ANTI- IL-1β IL-12 TNF-α TNF-β IFN-γ IL-18 IL1-Ra IL-4 IL-10 IL-13 IL1-Ra stnfα-r TGF-β TNF-α PDGF bfgf ET-1 IL-1 IGF-1 HGF IFN-α IL-10 MP-7

3 Overview of TGF-β1 effects during activation/transdifferentiation of HS General α-sma expression collagen expression TGF-β TGF-β MP-7 Activation Transdifferentiation quiescent HS activated HS MF Initiation phase Perpetuation phase Transcriptional events Paracrine stimulation Early EM changes Increased cytokine secretion Receptor tyrosine phosphorylation EM synthesis and remodeling adapted from Friedman (2000) J. iol. hem. 275,

4 SRF function in smooth muscle cell (SM) differentiation and α-sma expression General pluripotent fibroblast (10T1/2) RP2 (Weiskirchen et al., Oncogene 1993) RP2P (Weiskirchen & Gressner, R 2000) SRF GATA SM hang et al., Dev ell 2003

5 Serum response factor (SRF) is upregulated during transdifferentiation SRF HS MF 1d 2d 3d 4d 5d 6d 7d 2d 4d SRF (67 kda) α-sma (42 kda) Ponceau S Immunocytochemistry Western blot Herrmann et al., in revision

6 Activity of SRF during transdifferentiation of HS SRF consensus SRE X HS MF 1d 3d 5d 7d 4d mutant SRE X anti-srf control IgG X X Electrophoretic mobility shift assay Supershift consensus SRE 5 -GGA TGT A TAT TAG GA AT T-3 mutant SRE 5 -GGA TGT A TAT TAT TA AT T-3 co-factors SRF SRF (A/T) 6 GG Serum response element (SRE) SM-gene expression Herrmann et al., in revision

7 A Serum response factor (SRF) target gene expression during transdifferentiation SRF Ad5-MV-GFP Ad5-SM22α-GFP Ad5-TIMP-1-GFP MV SM22α TIMP-1 GFP GFP GFP HS MF 1d 3d 5d 7d 4d Myocardin (102 kda) Ponceau S Myocardin expression reporter gene assay Herrmann et al., in revision

8 The expression of SRF is TGF-β1-dependent SRF A 5d HS 24 h starved 6d HS 48 h starved 2d HS 7d HS TGF-β1 (ng/ml) FS (%) SRF S SRF (67 kda) Ponceau S Ponceau S S (ALK5 inhibitor) Ι ΙΙ Preparation STR SRF (67 kda) Ponceau S STR = soluble TGF-β type II receptor 4-(5-benzo(1,3)dioxol-5-yl- 4-pyridin-2-yl-1H-imidazol-2-yl) benzamide Herrmann et al., in revision

9 1 RP2 is a molecular adaptor protein RP2 NH 2 LIM1 GRR LIM2 GRR OOH NH 2 Zn H Zn OOH -X 2 --X 17 -H-X 2 --X 2 --X 2 --X 17 --X J iol hem 272, (1997) iochemistry 37, (1998) J Am hem Soc 120, (1998) J iol hem 273, (1998) J Mol iol 292, (1999) Weiskirchen et al., (2001), iochem. J. 359,

10 A RP2 expression during transdifferentiation and liver injury Transdifferentiation D Normal Liver DL Liver RP2 no DL 2d DL 7d DL 14d DL RP2 α-sma β-actin Weiskirchen et al. (2001) iochem J 359:485-96; Neyzen et al. (2006) J Hepatol 44:910-7; Herrmann et al. (2006) R 345:

11 A STR vs. Untreated (normalised to β-actin) The expression of RP2 is TGF-β1 dependent STR w/o d HS β-actin p = d HS RP2 β-actin RP2 D E Starvation TGF-β1 RP2 β-actin Starvation TGF-β1 SRP2 GAPDH Primary HS Western blot FS Northern blot RP S RP2 β-actin untreated 7d DL

12 A RP2P is a binding partner of RP2 (Y2H) NH 2 LD LIM1 LIM2 OOH hrp kd D E RP2 NH 2 LD LIM1 LIM2 OOH qrp NH 2 LD LIM1 OOH hrp2(lim1) NH 2 LD LIM2 OOH hrp2(lim2) G F Weiskirchen and Gressner (2000) R 274:655-63

13 A RP2P is a Histone-Acetyltransferase (HAT) Recognition fold Paged structures RP2P For Recognition fold methodology see: Hepatology 2001; 34:230-3

14 quiescent HS control sisrf HS SRF (67 kda) Early activation phase TGF-β1 activated HS Induction of SRF expression Induction of SRF cofactors (RP2, myocardin) SRF-Network α-sma (42 kda) SM22α (22 kda) Forming of SRF cofactor complexes Expression of specific SM genes (α-sma; SM22α) S6 (32 kda) RP2 HAT RP2 Acetylation SRF SRF SM gene expression FS hrs starvation RP2 Li et al., in revision β-actin

15 A TGF-β signal transduction in HS TGF-β/HS A D Meurer et al., J. iol. hem. 2005;280:

16 A Endoglin binds TGF-β and is associated with other TGF-β receptors sc-398 (ALK-5) sc-400 (RII) AF 242 (RIII) P4A4 (Endoglin) ross-linking and Immunoprecipitation TGF-β/HS kd HS 2d HS 7d MF 4d D 24h sirna Fluo sirna Eng hrs Endoglin (NFκ A) HSP-70 HS have higher content of p-endoglin (possibly preventing surface exposition)

17 A Analysis of the Smad1/5 signalling pathway in transdifferentiating HS type II receptor type I receptors TGF-β/HS ALK5 type III receptors Smads Northern lot

18 A Activation of artificial Smad reporters (AGA) 12 -MLP-Luc and (RE) 2 -Luc (AGA) 12 - MLP-Luc reporter ( TGF-β reporter ) MLP (minimal late promoter) Transcription PAI (Plasminogen activator Inhibitor promoter element) Luciferase rel. Luc-activity * TGF-β/HS 0 control TGF-β MP-7 (RE) 2 - Luc reporter ( MP reporter ) MLP (minimal late promoter) Transcription Id-1 (Inhibitor of differentiation-1 promoter element) Luciferase rel. Luc-activity * 0 control TGF-β MP-7 Adenoviral expression (4 d HS, 3 x 10 8 pfu/ml)

19 Endoglin: Impact on TGF-β1 and MP-7 pathways TGF-β/HS Reporter-assay in L 6 E 9 myoblasts (lacking endogenous endoglin) lockade of (AGA) 12 -Signals Stimulation of (RE) 2 -Signals Scherner et al., J iol hem 2007;282:

20 TGF-β, MP-7 and Endoglin in activated HS TGF-β/HS Endoglin TGF-β MP Smad3 psmad3 Smad5 psmad5 Smad2 psmad2 Smad1 psmad1 Fibrosis Resolution

21 Specificity and duration of Endoglin knock down TGF-β/HS A kd sion - TGF-β - sieng TGF-β Endoglin kd sion 4d 7d 10d 13d sieng 4d 7d 10d 13d Endoglin 41 β-actin 70 HSP-70 D (AGA) 12 - Luciferase assay 7 6 * rel. Luc.-activity * 0 control TGF-β sion control TGF-β sieng

22 A MP-7 Analysis of MP-7 and MP-7 receptor expression in HS RT-PR TGF-β/HS Receptors Western blot HS/MF don t express but are responsive towards MP-7

23 A Antagonisms of TGF-β1 and MP-7 in HS MP-7 [ng/ml] TGF-β/HS MP-7 [ng/ml] D MP-7 [ng/ml] ytosol Nucleus

24 TGF-β1 SUMMARY Smad phosphorylation SRF expression and activation + expression of SRF cofactors (e.g. RP2, myocardin) Endoglin Summary Activation Transdifferentiation quiescent HS activated HS generation of SRF-cofactor complexes MF activation of SM specific genes (e.g. SMA) EM synthesis expression (e.g. collagen type I) MP-7

25 Acknowledgement Institute of linical hemistry and Pathobiochemistry, UKA Steffen K. Meurer Olav Scherner Wanda N. Vreden Lidia Tihaa Erawan orkham-kamphorst Sabine Weiskirchen Senait Mengsteab Eddy van de Leur armen G. Tag Simone Mohren Olav A. Gressner Jens Herrmann Falko Drews Axel M. Gressner Martin Roderfeld, Elke Roeb Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Giessen Sandip M. Kanse, Klaus T. Preissner Institute of iochemistry, University Hospital Giessen Reinhard üttner Institute of Pathology, University Hospital onn INNOVATIONSPROGRAMM F O R S H U N G Florian Winau, Stefan Kaufmann Department of Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection iology (erlin) Ankang Li, Robert J. Schwartz aylor ollege of Medicine, enter for Molecular Development and Disease, Houston, TX, USA Joachim Grötzinger hristian Albrecht University Kiel, Institute of iochemistry, Med. Faculty, Structural iology Group SF 542

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