Influence of Egr-1 in cardiac tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells in response to glucose variations

Abstract

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) represent a promising cell population for cell therapy and regenerative medicine applications. However, how variations in glucose are perceived by MSC pool is still unclear. Since, glucose metabolism is cell type and tissue dependent, this must be considered when MSCs are derived from alternative sources such as the heart. The zinc finger transcription factor Egr-1 is an important early response gene, likely to play a key role in the glucose-induced response. Our aim was to investigate how short-term changes in in vitro glucose concentrations affect multipotent cardiac tissue-derived MSCs (cMSCs) in a mouse model of Egr-1 KO (Egr-1-/-). Results showed that loss of Egr-1 does not significantly influence cMSC proliferation. In contrast, responses to glucose variations were observed in wt but not in Egr-1 -/- cMSCs by clonogenic assay. Phenotype analysis by RT-PCR showed that cMSCs Egr-1-/- lost the ability to regulate the glucose transporters GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 and, as expected, the Egr-1 target genes VEGF, TGFβ-1, and p300. Acetylated protein levels of H3 histone were impaired in Egr-1-/- compared to wt cMSCs. We propose that Egr-1 acts as immediate glucose biological sensor in cMSCs after a short period of stimuli, likely inducing epigenetic modifications. © 2014 Daniela Bastianelli et al.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/254793
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Medical School
Additional Information: Copyright © 2014 Daniela Bastianelli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all),Immunology and Microbiology(all),Medicine(all)
Publication ISSN: 2314-6141
Last Modified: 04 Jan 2024 17:45
Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2014 14:50
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Published Date: 2014-05-22
Authors: Bastianelli, Daniela
Siciliano, Camilla
Puca, Rosa
Coccia, Andrea
Murdoch, Colin (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0274-819X)
Bordin, Antonella
Mangino, Giorgio
Pompilio, Giulio
Calogero, Antonella
de Falco, Elena

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