Angiotensin II signals cardiovascular disease through metalloproteinases including MMP-2, MMP-7 and ADAM-17/TACE. We hypothesized that these metalloproteinases regulate each other at the transcriptional level. Further, MMP-2, being a major gelatinase in cardiac and vascular tissue, could mediate angiotensin II-induced cardiovascular disease.
We studied the development of hypertension (by tail cuff plethysmography), cardiac hypertrophy (by M-mode echocardiography and qRT-PCR analysis of hypertrophy marker genes) and fibrosis (by collagen staining and qRT-PCR analysis of fibrosis marker genes) in mice receiving angiotensin II.
Angiotensin II induced hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis which correlated with an upregulation of MMP-2. Downregulation of MMP-2 by pharmacological inhibition and RNA interference attenuated hypertension but not cardiac hypertrophy or fibrosis. Downregulation of MMP-7 or ADAM-17/TACE by RNA interference attenuated angiotensin II-induced MMP-2 upregulation as well as hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis.
We conclude that MMP-2 selectively mediates angiotensin II-induced hypertension under the transcriptional control of MMP-7 and ADAM-17/TACE.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1908 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Odenbach, Jeffrey |
| Contributors | Fernandez-Patron, Carlos (Biochemistry), Baksh, Shairaz (Biochemistry), Foley, Edan (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Seubert, John (Pharmacy) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1320217 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | Odenbach, Jeffrey et al. Hypertension. Jan;57(1):123-30 (2011). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079048 |
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