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Platelet-Derived Growth Factor ß-Receptors Can Both Promote and Inhibit Chemotaxis in Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Gerard F. Clunn; Jonathan S. Refson; Joanne S. Lymn; ; Alun D. Hughes

From the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, London, UK.

Correspondence to Dr Gerard Clunn, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, South Wharf Rd, Paddington, London, W2 1NY, UK. E-mail g.clunn{at}ic.ac.uk

Abstract The effect of the three platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) isoforms AA, AB, and BB on migration was investigated in cultured human saphenous vein smooth muscle cells. The modified Boyden chamber technique yielded efficacies BB>>AB, AA=0. However, the BB concentration-response relationship displayed a pronounced peak, occurring between 1 and 10 ng/mL, with no response above this range. Checkerboard analysis showed that the promotion of migration at low concentrations was chemotactic in nature but that the downturn was independent of gradient. Furthermore, at high concentrations BB was able to prevent chemotaxis induced by fetal calf serum and epidermal growth factor (EGF). Experiments using low concentrations of BB in combination with high concentrations of AA to saturate PDGF {alpha}-receptors in the presence and absence of a neutralizing antibody to {alpha}-receptors revealed that {alpha}-receptor activation induced partial inhibition of chemotaxis but this did not account for the inhibition of migration by high concentrations of BB. Despite possessing no significant chemotactic action itself, high concentrations of the AB isoform completely inhibited BB induced chemotaxis. Taken together these results suggest that the chemotactic signal induced by PDGF is dominated by PDGF ß-receptors and switches from positive at low concentrations to negative at higher concentrations. Stimulation of DNA synthesis by the three isoforms (as measured by [3H] thymidine incorporation) yielded saturable responses for the AB and BB isoforms, with similar efficacy and weak or no response for the AA isoform. Concentration-dependent patterns of tyrosine phosphorylation of certain proteins mirrored the form of the chemotactic response and suggest one possible underlying regulatory mechanism to account for the disparity between PDGF-induced chemotaxis and DNA synthesis.


Key Words: vascular smooth muscle • platelet-derived growth factor • chemotaxis • tyrosine phosphorylation




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