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Unique vascular phenotypes following over-expression of individual VEGFA isoforms from the developing lens

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Formation of a correctly organised vasculature and subsequently embryonic survival is critically dependent on the dosage and site-specific expression of VEGF. Murine VEGF exists in three common isoforms (viz. 120, 164 and 188 amino acids) having different organ specific distribution levels. Gene knock-in studies show that expression of any of the individual isoforms of VEGF extends survival until birth, although each is associated with distinct organ-specific abnormalities. Comparison of the effects of VEGF isoform expression is complicated by the general lethality of mis-expression, in addition to cumulative effects of adjacent tissues from the inappropriately patterned vasculature. Here we investigate the effects of over-expression of individual VEGFA isoforms from the lens-specific αA-Crystallin promoter and characterise their effects on the vessel morphology of the hyaloid and developing retinal vasculature. Since the hyaloid vasculature is an anatomically distinct, transient vasculature of the eye, comprising 3 cell types (endothelium, pericytes and macrophages) it is possible to more readily interpret the role of individual VEGF-A isoforms in vascular pattern formation in this model. The severity of the vascular phenotype, characterised by a hyperplastic hyaloid at E13.5 and subsequently retinal vascular patterning and ocular defects, is most severe in transgenics over-expressing the more diffusible forms of VEGFA (120 and 164), whereas in VEGFA188 transgenics the hyaloid vascular defects partially resolve post-natally. The results of this study indicate that individual isoforms of VEGFA induce distinct vascular phenotypes in the eye during embryonic development and that their relative doses provide instructive cues for vascular patterning.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Mrs. M. Mitchell for expert animal care, Dr. Karim Bakri for sample processing, as well as Mr. Trevor Gray and Phillip Hinson for assistance with electron microscopy. We thank G. Breier for VEGF isoform plasmids, P. Overbeek for the CPV2 plasmid as well as L.A.G. Lucas and N.J. Duffin for assistance with microscopy. H. Gerhardt was supported by an EMBO fellowship.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nottingham, City Hospital, Hucknall Rd, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, UK

    Christopher A. Mitchell, Catrin S. Rutland & Muneeb Nasir

  2. Max-Planck Institute for Physiology and Clinical Research, W.G. Kerckhoff Institute, Parkstrasse 1, Bad Nauheim, D61231, Germany

    Christopher A. Mitchell, Michael Walker, Werner Risau & Hannes C. A. Drexler

  3. Centre for Molecular Biosciences, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Rd, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, UK

    Christopher A. Mitchell & Christine Stewart

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK

    Alexander J. E. Foss

  5. Department of Medical Biochemistry, Gothenburg University, PO Box 440, Gothenburg, SE 405 30, Sweden

    Holger Gerhardt

  6. Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Macroscopic Department, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Moritz A. Konerding

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Mitchell, C.A., Rutland, C.S., Walker, M. et al. Unique vascular phenotypes following over-expression of individual VEGFA isoforms from the developing lens. Angiogenesis 9, 209–224 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10456-006-9056-7

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