Shear stress activates ADAM10 sheddase to regulate Notch1 via the Piezo1 force sensor in endothelial cells

Abstract

Mechanical force is a determinant of Notch signalling but the mechanism of force detection and its coupling to Notch are unclear. We propose a role for Piezo1 channels, which are mechanically-activated non-selective cation channels. In cultured microvascular endothelial cells, Piezo1 channel activation by either shear stress or a chemical agonist Yoda1 activated a disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 10 (ADAM10), a Ca2+-regulated transmembrane sheddase that mediates S2 Notch1 cleavage. Consistent with this observation, we found Piezo1-dependent increase in the abundance of Notch1 intracellular domain (NICD) that depended on ADAM10 and the downstream S3 cleavage enzyme, g-secretase. Conditional endothelial-specific disruption of Piezo1 in adult mice suppressed the expression of multiple Notch1 target genes in hepatic vasculature, suggesting constitutive functional importance in vivo. The data suggest that Piezo1 is a mechanism conferring force sensitivity on ADAM10 and Notch1 with downstream consequences for sustained activation of Notch1 target genes and potentially other processes.

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  1. Vincenza Caolo

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  2. Marjolaine Debant

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  3. Naima Endesh

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  4. T Simon Futers

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  5. Laeticia Lichtenstein

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  6. Fiona Bartoli

    School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  7. Gregory Parsonage

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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  8. Elizabeth AV Jones

    Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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  9. David J Beech

    Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Funding

Wellcome (110044/Z/15/Z)

  • David J Beech

British Heart Foundation (RG/17/11/33042)

  • David J Beech

European Commission (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 SAVE 748369)

  • Vincenza Caolo

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (G091018N)

  • Elizabeth AV Jones

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All animal use was authorized by the University of Leeds Animal Ethics Committee and Home Office UK (Project Licence P606320FB to David J Beech).

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  1. Karina Yaniv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Version history

  1. Received: July 30, 2019
  2. Accepted: June 1, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: June 2, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: June 15, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Caolo et al.

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  1. Vincenza Caolo
  2. Marjolaine Debant
  3. Naima Endesh
  4. T Simon Futers
  5. Laeticia Lichtenstein
  6. Fiona Bartoli
  7. Gregory Parsonage
  8. Elizabeth AV Jones
  9. David J Beech
(2020)
Shear stress activates ADAM10 sheddase to regulate Notch1 via the Piezo1 force sensor in endothelial cells
eLife 9:e50684.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50684

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