Macrophages promote endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition via MT1-MMP/TGFβ1 after myocardial infarction
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Spain
- Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and Research Institute, Spain
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC), Spain
Abstract
Macrophages (Mφs) produce factors that participate in cardiac repair and remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI); however, how these factors crosstalk with other cell types mediating repair is not fully understood. Here, we demonstrated that cardiac Mφs increased expression of Mmp14 (MT1-MMP) 7 days post-MI. We selectively inactivated the Mmp14 gene in Mφs using a genetic strategy (Mmp14f/f:Lyz2-Cre). This conditional KO (MAC-Mmp14 KO) resulted in attenuated post-MI cardiac dysfunction, reduced fibrosis, and preserved cardiac capillary network. Mechanistically, we showed that MT1-MMP activates latent TGFβ1 in Mφs, leading to paracrine SMAD2-mediated signaling in endothelial cells (ECs) and endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT). Post-MI MAC-Mmp14 KO hearts contained fewer cells undergoing EndMT than their wild-type counterparts, and Mmp14-deficient Mφs showed a reduced ability to induce EndMT in co-cultures with ECs. Our results indicate the contribution of EndMT to cardiac fibrosis and adverse remodeling post-MI and identify Mφ MT1-MMP as a key regulator of this process.
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Laura Alonso-Herranz
Funding
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (SAF2017-90604-REDT-NurCaMein)
- Mercedes Ricote
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-095928-BI00)
- Mercedes Ricote
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (SAF2017-83229-R)
- Alicia G Arroyo
Comunidad de Madrid (MOIR-B2017/BMD-3684)
- Alicia G Arroyo
La Marato TV3 Foundation
- David García-Dorado
- Alicia G Arroyo
- Mercedes Ricote
Fundacion La Caixa
- Laura Alonso-Herranz
- Álvaro Sahún-Español
La Residencia de Estudiantes
- Álvaro Sahún-Español
FORD-Spain and Apadrina La Ciencia
- Álvaro Sahún-Español
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 procedures were conducted in accordance with EU Directive 86/609/EEC and approved by the Animal Subjects Committee of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) and Madrid Community Organs in the PROEX 188/26. All surgery was performed under anesthesia with sevoflurane (5% for induction, 2%-3% for maintenance) and buprenorphine (0.01 mg/kg, Buprex, Merck & Co. Inc) was given for pain relief.
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© 2020, Alonso-Herranz et al.
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Macrophages promote endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition via MT1-MMP/TGFβ1 after myocardial infarction
eLife 9:e57920.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57920
