PUBLICATION
Regulation of Vegf signaling by natural and synthetic ligands
- Authors
- Rossi, A., Gauvrit, S., Marass, M., Pan, L., Moens, C.B., Stainier, D.Y.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-160826-7
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Blood 128(19): 2359-2366 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Moens, Cecilia, Pan, Luyuan, Stainier, Didier
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Signal Transduction*
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/genetics
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism*
- Animals
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-1/metabolism
- Neovascularization, Physiologic
- Cell Differentiation
- Arteries/growth & development
- Arteries/pathology
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- Genes, Dominant
- Protein Engineering
- Ligands
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Mutation/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Aging/pathology
- PubMed
- 27557946 Full text @ Blood
Citation
Rossi, A., Gauvrit, S., Marass, M., Pan, L., Moens, C.B., Stainier, D.Y. (2016) Regulation of Vegf signaling by natural and synthetic ligands. Blood. 128(19):2359-2366.
Abstract
The mechanisms that allow cells to bypass anti-vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) therapy remain poorly understood. Here we use zebrafish to investigate this question and first show that vegfaa mutants display a severe vascular phenotype that can surprisingly be rescued to viability by vegfaa messenger RNA injections at the 1-cell stage. Using vegfaa mutants as an in vivo test tube, we found that zebrafish Vegfbb, Vegfd, and Pgfb can also rescue these animals to viability. Taking advantage of a new vegfr1 tyrosine kinase-deficient mutant, we determined that Pgfb rescues vegfaa mutants via Vegfr1. Altogether, these data reveal potential resistance routes against current anti-VEGFA therapies. In order to circumvent this resistance, we engineered and validated new dominant negative Vegfa molecules that by trapping Vegf family members can block vascular development. Thus, our results show that Vegfbb, Vegfd, and Pgfb can sustain vascular development in the absence of VegfA, and our newly engineered Vegf molecules expand the toolbox for basic research and antiangiogenic therapy.
Errata / Notes
This article is corrected by ZDB-PUB-220906-196 .
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping