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Article Dans Une Revue The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Année : 2017

Macrophage/monocyte-specific deletion of Ras homolog gene family member A (RhoA) downregulates fractalkine receptor and inhibits chronic rejection of mouse cardiac allografts

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BACKGROUND: The cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic rejection of transplanted organs remain obscure; however, macrophages are known to play a critical role in the injury and repair of allografts. Among multiple factors influencing macrophage infiltration to allografts, the fractalkine chemokine (C-X3-C motif) ligand 1(CX3CL1)/chemokine (C-X3-C motif) receptor 1 (CX3CR1) signaling pathway and actin cytoskeleton, which is regulated by a small guanosine-5׳-triphosphatase Ras homolog gene family member A (RhoA), are of the utmost importance. To define the role of macrophage/RhoA pathway involvement in chronic rejection, we generated mice with monocyte/macrophage-specific deletion of RhoA.METHODS: Hearts from BALB/c (H-2d) donors were transplanted into RhoA(flox/flox) (no Cre) and heterozygous Lyz2(Cre+/-)RhoA(flox/flox) recipients treated with cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 immunoglobulin to inhibit early T-cell response. Allografts were assessed for chronic rejection and monocyte/macrophage functions.RESULTS: The deletion of RhoA inhibited macrophage infiltration, neointimal hyperplasia of vasculature, and abrogated chronic rejection of the allografts. The RhoA deletion downregulated G protein-coupled fractalkine receptor CX3CR1, which activates the RhoA pathway and controls monocyte/macrophage trafficking into the vascular endothelium. This in turn promotes, through overproliferation and differentiation of smooth muscle cells in the arterial walls, neointimal hyperplasia.CONCLUSIONS: Our finding of codependence of chronic rejection on monocyte/macrophage CX3CR1/CX3CL1 and RhoA signaling pathways may lead to the development of novel anti-chronic rejection therapies.
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hal-01478811 , version 1 (18-05-2017)

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Yianzhu Liu, Wenhao Chen, Chenglin Wu, Laurie J. Minze, Jacek Z. Kubiak, et al.. Macrophage/monocyte-specific deletion of Ras homolog gene family member A (RhoA) downregulates fractalkine receptor and inhibits chronic rejection of mouse cardiac allografts. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2017, 36 (3), pp.340-354. ⟨10.1016/j.healun.2016.08.011⟩. ⟨hal-01478811⟩
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