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Angiopoietin 1 Is Mitogenic for Cultured Endothelial Cells

Divisions of ¹ Endothelial Cell Biology and ² Cytokine Signaling, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and ³ Department of Urology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki, Japan

Requests for reprints: Shigeru Kanda, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Endothelial Cell Biology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. Phone: 81-95-849-7340; Fax: 81-95-849-7343; E-mail: shigeruk{at}net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp.

The angiopoietin (Ang)/Tie2 system is implicated in blood vessel formation and maturation. However, the mitogenic effects of angiopoietins remain to be elucidated. Here, we show that Ang1 is mitogenic for cultured endothelial cells. Ang1 dose-dependently induced the proliferation and increased the labeling index of a murine brain capillary endothelial cell line, IBE cells. Ang1 also increased the labeling index of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Ang1 up-regulated the expression of cyclin D1 in both of these cells. Ang1 activated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in IBE cells and HUVECs. Activated PI3K was associated with c-Fes protein tyrosine kinase in these cells, but not with Tie2. p70 S6 kinase (p70 S6K) was activated by Ang1-treatment, although this activation was blocked by a PI3K inhibitor, LY294002. Simultaneous treatment of cells with PD98059 (MAPK/extracellular regulated kinase kinase inhibitor) and rapamycin (mTOR inhibitor) completely blocked Ang1-induced mitogenic activity for IBE cells and HUVECs. Although Ang2 at high concentration weakly activated Tie2 and p70 S6K, it failed to activate Ras and MAPK, or to induce cell proliferation. Taken together, these findings indicate that Ang1 exerts mitogenic activity on endothelial cells, which requires activation of both MAPK and p70 S6K.

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