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Rôle de la protéine Sonic Hedgehog dans la migration des cellules musculaires lisses et le recrutement des cellules murales sur les néovaisseaux : implication dans l’action de PDGF BB

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Auteur / Autrice : Qinyu Yao
Direction : Alain-Pierre Gadeau
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Sciences, technologie, santé. Biologie cellulaire et physiopathologie
Date : Soutenance le 09/10/2012
Etablissement(s) : Bordeaux 2
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Sciences de la vie et de la santé (Bordeaux)
Jury : Président / Présidente : Jean-Pierre Savineau
Examinateurs / Examinatrices : Martin Hagedorn, Muriel Laffargue
Rapporteurs / Rapporteuses : Jean-Jacques Feige, Martial Ruat

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Recruitment of mural cells, i.e. pericytes and smooth muscle cells (SMC), is essential to improve the maturation of newly formed vessels. One of the major factors involved in this process is the endothelial cell-secreted Platelet-Derived Growth Factor BB (PDGF BB). Sonic hedgehog (Shh) has also been suggested to promote the formation of larger and more muscularized vessels, but the underlying mechanisms involved have not yet been elucidated. We first identified Shh as a target of PDGF BB and found that SMC respond to Shh not only by upregulating the Gli1-dependent canonical pathway, but also by activating ERK1/2 and PI3K-dependent non-canonical pathways. Moreover, we found that PDGF BB-induced SMC migration, involves Shh-dependent PI3K, ERK1/2 and Gli1 activation. In the mouse model of corneal angiogenesis, PDGF BB and Shh were expressed by endothelial cells and mural cells of VEGF-induced newly formed blood vessels, respectively. PDGF BB inhibition reduced Shh expression, confirming that Shh is a target of PDGF BB, as demonstrated by in vitro experiments. Finally, we found that inhibition of either PDGF BB or Shh signaling reduced NG2+ mural cell recruitment into neovessels and subsequently reduced the neo-vessel lifespan. In this work, we demonstrate, for the first time, that Shh is a key mediator of PDGF BB-induced mural cell migration and recruitment into neo-vessels and elucidates the molecular signaling pathway involved in this process.