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Dual specificity phosphatase 5 regulates perfusion recovery in experimental peripheral artery disease
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Dual specificity phosphatase 5 regulates perfusion recovery in experimental peripheral artery disease

Satyanarayana Alleboina, Dawit Ayalew, Rahul Peravali, Lingdan Chen, Thomas Wong and Ayotunde O Dokun
Vascular medicine (London, England), Vol.24(5), pp.395-404
10/2019
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X19866254
PMCID: PMC7664318
PMID: 31451089
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Abstract

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is caused by atherosclerotic occlusions of vessels outside the heart, particularly those of the lower extremities. Angiogenesis is one critical physiological response to vessel occlusion in PAD, but our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in angiogenesis is incomplete. Dual specificity phosphatase 5 (DUSP5) has been shown to play a key role in embryonic vascular development, but its role in post-ischemic angiogenesis is not known. We induced hind limb ischemia in mice and found robust upregulation of Dusp5 expression in ischemic hind limbs. Moreover, in vivo knockdown of Dusp5 resulted in impaired perfusion recovery in ischemic limbs and was associated with increased limb necrosis. In vitro studies showed upregulation of DUSP5 in human endothelial cells exposed to ischemia, and knockdown of DUSP5 in these ischemic endothelial cells resulted in impaired endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenesis, but did not alter apoptosis. Finally, we show that these effects of DUSP5 on post-ischemic angiogenesis are a result of DUSP5-dependent decrease in ERK1/2 phosphorylation and p21 protein expression. Thus, we have identified a role of DUSP5 in post-ischemic angiogenesis and implicated a DUSP5-ERK-p21 pathway that may serve as a therapeutic target for the modulation of post-ischemic angiogenesis in PAD.
Animals Cell Line Cell Proliferation Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21 - metabolism Disease Models, Animal Dual-Specificity Phosphatases - genetics Dual-Specificity Phosphatases - metabolism Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases - metabolism Gene Knockdown Techniques Hindlimb - blood supply Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells - enzymology Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells - pathology Humans Ischemia - enzymology Ischemia - genetics Ischemia - physiopathology Male Mice, Inbred C57BL Neovascularization, Physiologic Peripheral Arterial Disease - enzymology Peripheral Arterial Disease - genetics Peripheral Arterial Disease - physiopathology Phosphorylation Recovery of Function Regional Blood Flow Signal Transduction

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