PUBLICATION
Formononetin promotes angiogenesis through the estrogen receptor alpha-enhanced ROCK pathway
- Authors
- Li, S., Dang, Y., Zhou, X., Huang, B., Huang, X., Zhang, Z., Kwan, Y.W., Chan, S.W., Leung, G.P., Lee, S.M., Hoi, M.P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-151117-8
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Scientific Reports 5: 16815 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Actin Cytoskeleton/drug effects
- Actin Cytoskeleton/metabolism
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/drug effects
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Estradiol/analogs & derivatives
- Estradiol/pharmacology
- Estrogen Receptor alpha/antagonists & inhibitors
- Estrogen Receptor alpha/genetics
- Estrogen Receptor alpha/metabolism*
- Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
- Humans
- Isoflavones/chemistry
- Isoflavones/metabolism
- Isoflavones/pharmacology*
- Matrix Metalloproteinase 2/metabolism
- Matrix Metalloproteinase 9/metabolism
- Molecular Docking Simulation
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/drug effects*
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA Interference
- Signal Transduction/drug effects*
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/pharmacology
- Zebrafish
- rho-Associated Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- rho-Associated Kinases/genetics
- rho-Associated Kinases/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 26568398 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Li, S., Dang, Y., Zhou, X., Huang, B., Huang, X., Zhang, Z., Kwan, Y.W., Chan, S.W., Leung, G.P., Lee, S.M., Hoi, M.P. (2015) Formononetin promotes angiogenesis through the estrogen receptor alpha-enhanced ROCK pathway. Scientific Reports. 5:16815.
Abstract
Formononetin is an isoflavone that has been shown to display estrogenic properties and induce angiogenesis activities. However, the interrelationship between the estrogenic properties and angiogenesis activities of formononetin are not well defined. In the present study, docking and enzymatic assay demonstrated that formononetin displayed direct binding to the ligand-binding domain (LBD) of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) with an agonistic property. Results from Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) by using real-time migration xCELLigence system, immunofluorescence and western blotting provided strong evidences of formononetin induced endothelial cell migration and dramatic actin cytoskeleton spatial modification through ERα-enhanced-ROCK-II/MMP2/9 signaling pathways. In addition, results from co-immunoprecipitation suggested formononetin induced cell migration via recruiting of ERα/ROCK-II activated complex formation. More interestingly, in zebrafish embryo we observed that formononetin significantly promoted angiogenic sproutings in the subintestinal vessels (SIVs) that could be completely abolished by ROCK inhibitor. In this study, we elucidated the underlying mechanisms that formononetin produced proangiogenesis effects through an ERα-enhanced ROCK-II signaling pathways. Results from the present study also expand our knowledge about the enigmatic underlying mechanisms of phytoestrogenic compounds in the promotion of angiogenesis in relation to ERα and ROCK interaction in endothelial cells and their relationship with actin assembly and cell migration.
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