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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) isoform regulation of early forebrain development

ABSTRACT: This work was designed to determine the role of the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF) isoforms during early neuroepithelial development in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), specifically in the forebrain. An emerging model of interdependence between neural and vascular systems includes VEGF, with its dual roles as a potent angiogenesis factor and neural regulator. Although a number of studies have implicated VEGF in CNS development, little is known about the role that the different VEGF isoforms play in early neurogenesis. We used a mouse model of disrupted VEGF isoform expression that eliminates the predominant brain isoform, VEGF164, and expresses only the diffusible form, VEGF120. We tested the hypothesis that VEGF164 plays a key role in controlling neural precursor populations in developing cortex. We used microarray analysis to compare gene expression differences between wild type and VEGF120 mice at E9.5, the primitive stem cell stage of the neuroepithelium. We quantified changes in PHH3-positive nuclei, neural stem cell markers (Pax6 and nestin) and the Tbr2-positive intermediate progenitors at E11.5 when the neural precursor population is expanding rapidly. Absence of VEGF164 (and VEGF188) leads to reduced proliferation without an apparent effect on the number of Tbr2-positive cells. There is a corresponding reduction in the number of mitotic spindles that are oriented parallel to the ventricular surface relative to those with a vertical or oblique angle. These results support a role for the VEGF isoforms in supporting the neural precursor population of the early neuroepithelium.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE30767 | GEO | 2011/12/01

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA144337

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Vascular endothelial growth factor is a multifunctional cytokine playing important roles in angiogenesis, tumor progression and metastasis. Alternative splicing results in the production of several different isoforms of VEGF. We have previously generated human breast cancer cells overexpressing VEGF165 or VEGF189 isoforms (referred to as the V165 and V189 clones, respectively) and showed that VEGF189-transfected cells were less tumorigenic. In this study, we used bioluminescence imaging to analyze the metastasis capacity of breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-321) overexpressing VEGF isoforms in nude mice. V165, V189 and control cV clones were transfected with a luciferase plasmid to generate bioluminescent clones (the V165-B, V189-B and cV clones, respectively). These clones were then injected into the left heart ventricle of nude mice. Analysis of the location of metastases shows that V189-B cells induced fewer metastases in lung and bone than V165-B and cV-B cells. Moreover, there was a delay on metastasis appearance in mice receiving VEGF V189-B clone, consistent with increase survival in these mice. We investigated the possible mechanisms underlying these effects and found that VEGF189 increased adhesion and decreased cell invasion and survival in vitro. In the other side, transcriptomic analyses shown expression of genes, implicated in breast cancer and metastatic dissemination, in VEGF165 overexpressing cells. After in silico analyses of genes differentially expressed between V189 and V165 cells,we used Q-PCR assays to quantify mRNA levels of some gene of interest in 120 breast tumors from patients with or without metastasis and/or specially lung metastasis. We found that genes have prognostical significance and /or showed an influence on relapse-free survival. These data provide the first evidence that different VEGF isoforms have different effects on breast cancer cell line invasion and colonization. Human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were used to generate stable transfected clones overexpressing VEGF165 isoform, VEGF189 isoform, or control vector (referred to as 42ctl8, 13ctl3 and PCIctl3, respectively). Analysis of the metastasis capacity of these clones in nude mice.

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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) isoform regulation of early forebrain development

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