TY - JOUR
T1 - Matricellular Signaling Molecule CCN1 Attenuates Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis by Acting as a Novel Immune Cell Migration Modulator
AU - Rother, Madlen
AU - Krohn, Stefanie
AU - Kania, Gabriela
AU - Vanhoutte, Davy
AU - Eisenreich, Andreas
AU - Wang, Xiaomin
AU - Westermann, Dirk
AU - Savvatis, Kostas
AU - Dannemann, Nadine
AU - Skurk, Carsten
AU - Hilfiker-Kleiner, Denise
AU - Cathomen, Toni
AU - Fechner, Henry
AU - Rauch, Ursula
AU - Schultheiss, Heinz-Peter
AU - Heymans, Stephane
AU - Eriksson, Urs
AU - Scheibenbogen, Carmen
AU - Poller, Wolfgang
PY - 2010/12/21
Y1 - 2010/12/21
N2 - Background-CCN1 is an evolutionary ancient matricellular protein that modulates biological processes associated with tissue repair. Induction at sites of injury was observed in conditions ranging from skin wounds to cardiac diseases, including ischemic and inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Here, we provide evidence of a novel function of CCN1 as a modulator of immune cell migration. Methods and Results-To understand the role of CCN1 in cardiomyopathies and to evaluate its therapeutic potential, we overexpressed CCN1 using an adenoviral hepatotropic vector in murine experimental autoimmune myocarditis, a model of human inflammatory cardiomyopathy. CCN1 gene transfer significantly reduced cardiac disease score and immune cell infiltration. In vivo tracking of hemagglutinin epitope-tagged CCN1 revealed binding to spleen macrophages but not to cardiomyocytes. Unexpectedly, CCN1 therapy left cardiac chemokine and cytokine expression unchanged but instead strongly inhibited the migration of spleen macrophages and lymphocytes, as evidenced by ex vivo transwell assays. In accordance with the ex vivo data, in vitro preincubation with CCN1 diminished transwell migration of human monocytes and abrogated their chemotactic response to monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha , and stromal cell-derived factor-1 alpha. Further mechanistic studies showed that CCN1-driven modulation of immune cell migration is mimicked in part by cyclic RGD peptides currently in clinical evaluation for cancer therapy. Conclusions-Our proof-of-concept study suggests investigation of CCN1 as a novel, endogenous "parent compound" for chemotaxis modulation and of cyclic RGD peptides as a class of partially CCN1-mimetic drugs with immediate potential for clinical evaluation in cardiac diseases associated with chronic pathogenic inflammation. (Circulation.2010;122:2688-2698.)
AB - Background-CCN1 is an evolutionary ancient matricellular protein that modulates biological processes associated with tissue repair. Induction at sites of injury was observed in conditions ranging from skin wounds to cardiac diseases, including ischemic and inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Here, we provide evidence of a novel function of CCN1 as a modulator of immune cell migration. Methods and Results-To understand the role of CCN1 in cardiomyopathies and to evaluate its therapeutic potential, we overexpressed CCN1 using an adenoviral hepatotropic vector in murine experimental autoimmune myocarditis, a model of human inflammatory cardiomyopathy. CCN1 gene transfer significantly reduced cardiac disease score and immune cell infiltration. In vivo tracking of hemagglutinin epitope-tagged CCN1 revealed binding to spleen macrophages but not to cardiomyocytes. Unexpectedly, CCN1 therapy left cardiac chemokine and cytokine expression unchanged but instead strongly inhibited the migration of spleen macrophages and lymphocytes, as evidenced by ex vivo transwell assays. In accordance with the ex vivo data, in vitro preincubation with CCN1 diminished transwell migration of human monocytes and abrogated their chemotactic response to monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha , and stromal cell-derived factor-1 alpha. Further mechanistic studies showed that CCN1-driven modulation of immune cell migration is mimicked in part by cyclic RGD peptides currently in clinical evaluation for cancer therapy. Conclusions-Our proof-of-concept study suggests investigation of CCN1 as a novel, endogenous "parent compound" for chemotaxis modulation and of cyclic RGD peptides as a class of partially CCN1-mimetic drugs with immediate potential for clinical evaluation in cardiac diseases associated with chronic pathogenic inflammation. (Circulation.2010;122:2688-2698.)
KW - cardiomyopathy
KW - immunomodulation
KW - chemotaxis
KW - migration
KW - inflammation
U2 - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.945261
DO - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.945261
M3 - Article
C2 - 21135363
SN - 0009-7322
VL - 122
SP - 2688
EP - 2698
JO - Circulation
JF - Circulation
IS - 25
ER -