PDGF receptors are activated in human epiretinal membranes

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作者
Cui, Jing [2 ]
Lei, Hetian [1 ]
Samad, Arif [3 ]
Basavanthappa, Sreenivasa [1 ]
Maberley, David [2 ]
Matsubara, Joanne [2 ]
Kazauskas, Andrius [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Schepens Eye Res Inst, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[2] Univ British Columbia, Dept Ophthalmol & Visual Sci, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9, Canada
[3] Dalhousie Univ, Dept Ophthalmol & Visual Sci, Halifar, NS B3H 2AS, Canada
关键词
proliferative vitreoretinopathy; PVR; PDGF; PDGF receptor; RPE cells; glial cells; PIGMENT EPITHELIAL-CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH-FACTOR; PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY; PLASMINOGEN-ACTIVATOR; RETINAL-DETACHMENT; BETA-RECEPTOR; FAMILY; CONTRACTION; ANTIBODIES; TRACTION;
D O I
10.1016/j.exer.2008.10.020
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R77 [眼科学];
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100212 ;
摘要
Previous investigators reported that epiretinal membranes isolated from patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) express various platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) family members and PDGF receptors (PDGFRs) (Cui, J.Z., Chiu, A., Maberley, D., Ma, F:, Samad, A., Matsubara, J.A., 2007. Stage specificity of novel growth factor expression during development of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Eye 21, 200-208; Robbins, S.G.. Mixon, R.N., Wilson, DJ., Hart, C.E., Robertson, J.E., Westra, I., Planck, S.R., Rosenbaum, J.T., 1994. Platelet-derived growth factor ligands and receptors immunolocalized in proliferative retinal diseases. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 35(10), 3649-3663). Co-expression of ligand and receptor raises the possibility of an autocrine loop, which could be of importance in the pathogenesis of PVR. To begin to address this issue we determined whether the PDGFRs in epiretinal membranes isolated from PVR patient donors were activated. Indeed, immunohistochemical staining (using pan- and phospho-PDGFR antibodies) revealed that both PDGFR subunits were activated. Quantification of these data demonstrated that a greater percentage of cells expressed the PDGFR alpha subunit as compared with the beta subunit (44 +/- 13% versus 32 +/- 6.5%). Staining with phospho-PDGFR antibodies indicated that 36 +/- 10% of the PDGFR alpha subunits were activated, whereas only 16 +/- 5.5% of the PDGFR beta subunits were activated. Thus, a 2.25 fold greater percentage of the PDGFR alpha subunits was activated. Co-staining with diagnostic cell-type antibodies indicated that both retinal pigment epithelial and glial cells expressed activated PDGFR alpha subunits. These findings support the recent discovery that PDGF-C is the major vitreal isoform because PDGF-C is 3 times more likely to activate a PDGFR alpha subunit as compared with a PDGFR beta subunit. We conclude that PDGFRs are activated in epiretinal membranes of patients with PVR, and that the profile of active PDGFR alpha subunits functionally supports the idea that PDGF-C is the predominant PDGF isoform present in the vitreous of patients with PVR These findings identify PDGF-A, -AB and C as the best therapeutic targets within the PDGF family. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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