Upregulation of Circ-IGF1R Increased Therapeutic Effect of Hypoxia-pretreated ADSC-derived Extracellular Vesicle by Regulating MiR-503-5p/HK2/VEGFA Axis

Overview

Journal J Cell Mol Med

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2024 Jul 10

PMID 38984951

Authors

Rongfeng Shi

Pengfei Jia

Suming Zhao

Hongxin Yuan

Jiahai Shi

Hui Zhao

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Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of blindness and chronic ulcers in the working-age population worldwide. Wound healing is deeply dependent on neovascularization to restore blood flow. Former research has found that differentially expressed circular RNAs (circRNAs) are associated with hyperglycaemia-induced endothelial cell damage, and hypoxia-pretreated adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs)-extracellular vesicle (HEV) transplants have a more therapeutic effect to enhance wound healing in diabetic mice by delivery circRNA. The current investigation employed high-throughput sequencing to identify circRNAs that are abnormally expressed between EV and HEV. The regulatory mechanism and predicted targets of one differentially expressed circRNA, circ-IGF1R, were investigated utilizing bioinformatics analyses, luciferase reporter assays, angiogenic differentiation assays, flow cytometric apoptosis analysis and RT-qPCR. Circ-IGF1R expression increased in HEV, and downregulation of circ-IGF1R suppressed and reversed the promotion effect of HEV on angiogenesis in ulcerated tissue. Bioinformatics analyses and luciferase reporter assays confirmed that miR-503-5p was the downstream target of circ-IGF1R, and inhibiting miR-503-5p restored the promotion effect of HEV on angiogenesis after circ-IGF1R silence. The study also found that miR-503-5p can interact with 3'-UTR of both HK2 and VEGFA. Overexpression of HK2 or VEGFA restored the promotion effect of HExo on angiogenesis after circ-IGF1R silence. Overexpression miR-503-5p or silence HK2/VEGFA reversed the protective effect of circ-IGF1R to MLMECs angiogenic differentiation. Overexpression of circ-IGF1R increased the protective effect of HEV on the promotion of wound healing in mice with diabetes. Circ-IGF1R promotes HIF-1α expression through miR-503-5p sponging. Our data demonstrate that circ-IGF1R overexpression EVs from ADSCs suppress high glucose-induced endothelial cell damage by regulating miR-503-5p/HK2/VEGFA axis.

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