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Follow the science: How fat cells taught us about scarring and ECM homeostasis 遵循科学:脂肪细胞如何教会我们疤痕和ECM稳态
IF 6.9 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.12.003
Valerie Horsley
This article describes the journey of my laboratory team as we became fascinated in the dynamic changes that occurred to adipose tissue in the skin during tissue injury and fibrosis. I discuss how lineage tracing and molecular manipulation of adipocyte lineage cells led us to discover novel ways that fat cells contribute to ECM homeostasis in the skin. This work revealed the importance of adipocyte plasticity and cell communication during tissue repair and as they respond to fibrotic stimuli.
这篇文章描述了我的实验室团队的旅程,因为我们对组织损伤和纤维化期间皮肤脂肪组织发生的动态变化着迷。我讨论了谱系追踪和脂肪细胞谱系细胞的分子操作如何引导我们发现脂肪细胞促进皮肤ECM稳态的新途径。这项工作揭示了脂肪细胞可塑性和细胞通讯在组织修复过程中的重要性,以及它们对纤维化刺激的反应。
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α-Dystroglycan at the ECM-Cell crossroad: emerging functions of its N-terminal domain α-异糖甘蛋白在ECM-Cell十字路口:其n端结构域的新功能
IF 6.9 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.12.002
Maria Giulia Bigotti, Andrea Brancaccio
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Liver-derived, circulating plasma fibronectin regulates trabecular bone mass and bone formation in adult male mice and its levels in sera associates with bone density in aging men 肝脏来源的循环血浆纤维连接蛋白调节成年雄性小鼠的骨小梁骨量和骨形成,以及其在血清中的水平与老年男性骨密度的关系
IF 6.9 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.12.001
Mahdokht Mahmoodi, Claudie Berger, Mir-Hamed Nabavi, Yongjun Xiao, Lucie Canaff, Monica Pata, Jingjing Li, Mathieu Ferron, Monzur Murshed, David Goltzman, Suzanne N. Morin, Mari T. Kaartinen
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Human mammary 3D spheroid models uncover the role of filopodia in breaching the basement membrane to facilitate invasion 人类乳腺三维球体模型揭示了丝状足在突破基底膜以促进入侵中的作用
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.008
Alain Corinus , Sophie Abélanet , Julia Dubreuil , Zhenyu Zhu , Sabrina Pisano , Christelle Boscagli , Anne-Sophie Gay , Delphine Debayle , Marin Truchi , Kevin Lebrigand , Sandra Lacas-Gervais , Frédéric Brau , Xavier Descombes , Patricia Rousselle , Michel Franco , Frédéric Luton
Basement membranes (BM) are thin, nanoporous sheets of specialized extracellular matrix (ECM) that line epithelial tissues. They are dynamic structures that serve multiple key functions, as evidenced by numerous diseases, including cancer progression, that are associated with their alterations. Our understanding of the BM and its communication with adjoining epithelial cells remains highly fragmented due to the BM’s complex molecular architecture, the lack of molecular tools, limitations in utilizing high-resolution imaging techniques to BMs assembled on tissues, and the difficulty of assessing their functional contributions in vivo. Here, by combining multiple -omics analyses and advanced microscopy methodologies, we characterized the BM from two normal human mammary epithelial cell lines, MCF10 and HMLE, grown as spheroids in 3D matrices. Our findings indicate that the spheroids autonomously assemble a BM exhibiting all the molecular, structural, and biophysical characteristics of physiological BM. Using these minimalist model systems, we provide evidence that collagen IV, laminins, perlecan, and hemidesmosomes all overlap in a shared porous lattice. Next, we demonstrate that the invasion-promoting PSD4/EFA6B knockout, found in patients with breast cancer, decreases the expression of BM components and their assembly on the spheroid surface. We then show that invasive spheroids develop enlarged pores in the BM via filopodia-like plasma membrane extensions, which further expand in a protease-dependent manner, thereby facilitating the passage of invasive cells.
基底膜(BM)是排列在上皮组织上的细胞外基质(ECM)的薄的纳米多孔薄片。它们是具有多种关键功能的动态结构,正如许多疾病(包括癌症进展)所证明的那样,与它们的改变有关。由于脑基的复杂分子结构,缺乏分子工具,利用高分辨率成像技术对组织上组装的脑基的限制,以及难以评估其在体内的功能贡献,我们对脑基及其与邻近上皮细胞的通讯的理解仍然高度分散。在这里,通过结合多组学分析和先进的显微镜方法,我们对两种正常人类乳腺上皮细胞系MCF10和HMLE的BM进行了表征,这些细胞系在3D基质中作为球体生长。我们的研究结果表明,这些球体自主组装成一个BM,展示了生理BM的所有分子、结构和生物物理特征。使用这些极简模型系统,我们提供了证据,证明胶原蛋白IV,层粘连蛋白,perlecan和半脂粒都在一个共享的多孔晶格中重叠。接下来,我们证明在乳腺癌患者中发现的促进侵袭的PSD4/EFA6B基因敲除降低了BM组分的表达及其在球体表面的组装。然后,我们发现侵入性球体通过丝状足样质膜延伸在基底膜中形成扩大的孔,这些孔以蛋白酶依赖的方式进一步扩大,从而促进了侵入性细胞的通过。
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Retraction Notice to “RETRACTED: The angiostatic molecule Multimerin 2 is processed by MMP-9 to allow sprouting angiogenesis” “撤回:血管抑制分子Multimerin 2被MMP-9处理以允许发芽血管生成”的撤回通知。
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.10.002
Eva Andreuzzi , Roberta Colladel , Rosanna Pellicani , Giulia Tarticchio , Renato Cannizzaro , Paola Spessotto , Benedetta Bussolati , Alessia Brossa , Paolo De Paoli , Vincenzo Canzonieri , Renato V. Iozzo , Alfonso Colombatti , Maurizio Mongiat
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Corrigendum to “Laminin-511-functionalized fibrin gel enables in-gel proliferation of human induced pluripotent stem cells” [Matrix Biology Volume 142, December 2025, Pages 21–32] “laminin -511功能化纤维蛋白凝胶使人诱导多能干细胞在凝胶内增殖”的勘误表[Matrix Biology Volume 142, December 2025, Pages 21-32]
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.005
Yukimasa Taniguchi, Mamoru Takizawa, Ayaka Hada, Ayano Ishimaru, Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi
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CCN1: a SASPy protein that plays multifaceted roles in fibrogenesis CCN1:一种在纤维形成中起多方面作用的SASPy蛋白
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.007
Andrew Leask
The matricellular protein CCN1 is pro-senescent, and can be considered as a possible inducer of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Although the SASP facilitates healthy tissue repair when senescent cells are properly cleared, pathological fibrosis results when this clearance is defective. Similarly, CCN1 can have both anti-fibrotic and pro-fibrotic properties, depending on the context. Recent data indicate that although CCN1 has anti-fibrotic roles in normal tissue repair and the liver, it also has pro-fibrotic roles in lung, kidney, cardiac, skin and liver fibrosis/scarring. That CCN1 has context-dependent roles in fibrosis deserves consideration when developing anti-fibrotic drugs.
基质细胞蛋白CCN1是促衰老的,可以被认为是衰老相关分泌表型(SASP)的可能诱导剂。尽管当衰老细胞被正确清除时,SASP促进了健康组织的修复,但当这种清除有缺陷时,就会导致病理性纤维化。同样,CCN1可以同时具有抗纤维化和促纤维化特性,这取决于环境。最近的数据表明,尽管CCN1在正常组织修复和肝脏中具有抗纤维化作用,但它在肺、肾、心脏、皮肤和肝脏纤维化/瘢痕形成中也具有促纤维化作用。在开发抗纤维化药物时,CCN1在纤维化中具有情境依赖性作用值得考虑。
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High hyaluronan binding and RHAMM expression identify an invasive and metastatic subpopulation in androgen-resistant prostate cancer cells 高透明质酸结合和RHAMM表达确定雄激素抗性前列腺癌细胞的侵袭性和转移性亚群
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.006
Tolg C , Price M , Leith S , Miller T , Pavanel H , A.C. Nelson , Hill KA , McCarthy JB , Turley EA
Hyaluronan (HA) metabolism in prostate cancer associates with androgen resistance and metastasis. We showed that binding of low molecular weight HA (≤250 kDa) to castration-resistant prostate cancer cells was heterogeneous with most cells binding low amounts of HA (HAlow) while a minor subset bound higher amounts of this polysaccharide (HAhigh). HAhigh subsets, which were separated by FACS, were stably more metastatic in vivo than HAlow comparators. Multiplexed flow cytometry analyses indicated that both subsets displayed similar expression of the HA receptor CD44 while an elevated RHAMM cell surface display was unique to HAhigh subsets. Genomic deletion of RHAMM using CRISPR-Cas9 editing reduced the detection of HAhigh subsets by 6mer but not 250 kDa HA fluorescent probes, and phenocopied the lower aggressive properties of HAlow tumor cells. Few differences in the mutation landscape of RHAMM+/+ vs. RHAMM-/- tumor cells were detected but pathway analyses of differentially expressed genes predicted RHAMM-loss altered extracellular matrix signaling. Transcriptomic analyses revealed that HAhigh subsets and RHAMM+/+ PC3MLN4 cells shared high expression of follistatin (FST), an activin member of the TGF-β family that is clinically linked to metastases in PCA patients. A causal role for FST in RHAMM+/+ tumor cell aggression was assessed using motility as a surrogate marker of invasive capability. FST antibodies blocked RHAMM+/+ PC3MLN4 cell migration while conversely, recombinant FST protein rescued the migration deficit of RHAMM-/- comparators. These results define a novel form of prostate cancer cell heterogeneity, identify a method for detecting and isolating highly metastatic subsets and highlight a novel RHAMM-regulated pathway that may be targeted to improve patient management by limiting metastasis.
前列腺癌透明质酸(HA)代谢与雄激素抵抗和转移有关。我们发现,低分子量HA(≤250 kDa)与去势抵抗性前列腺癌细胞的结合是异质性的,大多数细胞结合低量HA (HAlow),而一小部分细胞结合高量HA (HAhigh)。通过FACS分离的HAhigh亚群在体内的转移性比HAlow比较物更稳定。多路流式细胞术分析表明,这两个亚群表现出相似的HA受体CD44表达,而RHAMM细胞表面显示升高是HAhigh亚群所特有的。使用CRISPR-Cas9编辑的RHAMM基因组缺失减少了6mer而不是250 kDa HA荧光探针对HAhigh亚群的检测,并表型显示了HAlow肿瘤细胞较低的侵袭性。检测到RHAMM+/+与RHAMM-/-肿瘤细胞的突变景观几乎没有差异,但差异表达基因的途径分析预测RHAMM缺失会改变细胞外基质信号传导。转录组学分析显示,HAhigh亚群和RHAMM+/+ PC3MLN4细胞都高表达卵泡抑素(FST), FST是TGF-β家族的一种激活素,在临床上与PCA患者的转移有关。FST在RHAMM+/+肿瘤细胞侵袭中的因果作用通过运动性作为侵袭能力的替代标记来评估。FST抗体阻断了RHAMM+/+ PC3MLN4细胞的迁移,而重组FST蛋白则弥补了RHAMM-/-比较物的迁移缺陷。这些结果定义了一种新的前列腺癌细胞异质性形式,确定了一种检测和分离高度转移亚群的方法,并强调了一种新的rhamm调控途径,该途径可能通过限制转移来改善患者管理。
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Furin-like cleavage at the C1-C2 linker region of the ⍺3 chain is not required for collagen VI assembly 在C1-C2连接区,类似于furin的切割对于胶原VI的组装是不需要的
IF 4.8 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.003
Arthur Lauri Pasanen-Zentz , Mengjie Zhu , Sebastian Schmitz , Nitin George Eapen , Matthias Pzryklenk , Fabian Metzen , Karina Hadrian , Matthias Mörgelin , Uwe Hansen , Branko Zevnik , Simon E Tröder , Felix Bock , Catherine Moali , Marcus Krüger , Manuel Koch , Mats Paulsson , Raimund Wagener , Alvise Schiavinato
Collagen VI is a heterotrimeric, ubiquitously expressed microfibrillar collagen with a complex intracellular and extracellular assembly process. In addition to a short collagenous region, it is primarily composed of von Willebrand factor A (VWA) domains. Notably, only the C-terminal end of the α3 chain contains other domain types, including a Kunitz-like C5 domain, which has been reported to be necessary for microfibril formation, to function as a matrikine and exhibit biomarker properties. This region of the α3 chain undergoes proteolytic processing, with cleavage sites identified for proprotein convertases, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), and bone morphogenetic protein 1 (BMP1). Cleavage by furin-like convertases results in the generation of a mature collagen VI α3 chain lacking its 70 kDa C2-C5 domains. Here, we provide the first characterization of the functional significance of the furin-like cleavage site, demonstrating that while it is constitutively used, it is not essential for collagen VI assembly, microfibril formation, or skeletal muscle function under physiological conditions, likely due to the presence of redundant cleavage sites. We also present an initial characterization of the biological activity of the released fragments on myoblast cultures showing that they do not affect C2C12 myoblast behaviour or differentiation. These findings deepen our understanding of α3 chain processing and highlight its potential significance for collagen VI assembly and function, including the generation of peptides with potential biomarker and biological activity properties.
胶原VI是一种异三聚体,普遍表达的微纤维胶原蛋白,具有复杂的细胞内和细胞外组装过程。除了一个短的胶原区外,它主要由血管性血友病因子a (VWA)结构域组成。值得注意的是,只有α3链的c末端含有其他结构域类型,包括库尼茨样的C5结构域,该结构域被报道为微纤维形成所必需的,作为基质因子并表现出生物标志物的特性。α3链的这一区域发生蛋白水解加工,其裂解位点被鉴定为蛋白转化酶、基质金属蛋白酶(MMPs)和骨形态发生蛋白1 (BMP1)。通过类似于furin的转化酶的切割,导致成熟的胶原VI α3链缺乏其70 kDa的C2-C5结构域。在这里,我们首次对类糠蛋白裂解位点的功能意义进行了表征,证明了虽然它是组成性使用的,但在生理条件下,它对胶原VI组装、微纤维形成或骨骼肌功能并不是必需的,这可能是由于存在冗余的裂解位点。我们还初步表征了释放片段在成肌细胞培养物上的生物活性,表明它们不影响C2C12成肌细胞的行为或分化。这些发现加深了我们对α3链加工的理解,并强调了其对胶原VI组装和功能的潜在意义,包括产生具有潜在生物标志物和生物活性特性的肽。
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Zebrafish col4a1 loss-of-function models mirror key neurovascular and ocular features of COL4A1/A2 syndrome and enable human variants assessment in vivo 斑马鱼col4a1功能丧失模型反映了col4a1 /A2综合征的关键神经血管和眼部特征,并能够在体内评估人类变异
IF 6.9 1区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2025.11.004
Graziamaria Paradisi, Valeria Bonavolontà, Martina Venditti, Giulia Fasano, Catia Pedalino, Filippo Del Bene, Marco Tartaglia, Antonella Lauri
Pathogenic variants in COL4A1 and COL4A2, encoding type IV collagen α1 and α2 chains—core components of all basement membranes—cause a multisystem disorder with variable expressivity. Affected individuals commonly present with cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), unmanageable intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), drug-resistant epilepsy, microphthalmia, and congenital cataract. Severe phenotypes are often linked to glycine substitutions that disrupt α1/α2 heterotrimer assembly, though insertions, deletions, and haploinsufficiency seem to also be pathogenic. Limited insight into collagen IV α1 and α2 biology and how specific variants affect their functions—coupled with a lack of rapid in vivo assays for functional variants classification—hampers patient stratification and therapy development. Here, we established and characterized two complementary col4a1 knockdown (KD) models in zebrafish. Taking advantages of their transparency and rapid development we set-up in vivo assays for neurovascular and ocular phenotyping. Both models reproduced key features of human disease, including ventriculomegaly, vascular fragility with spontaneous and trauma-induced ICH, microphthalmia, and cataracts. Notably, expression of human wild-type COL4A1 partially rescued most of the observed defects, while pathogenic glycine-substitution variants failed to do so. These findings validate col4a1 KD in zebrafish as a robust in vivo model of some aspects of COL4A1/A2 syndrome, highlighting a conserved role of collagen IV α1 in neurovascular and ocular development. Our results also support haploinsufficiency as a contributing pathogenic mechanism, alongside dominant-negative effects. This work lays the foundation for the use of zebrafish to support rapid COL4A1 and COL4A2 variants pathogenicity assessment and mechanistic studies, with the potential to accelerate development of targeted therapies.
COL4A1和COL4A2的致病变异,编码IV型胶原α1和α2链-所有基底膜的核心成分-导致具有可变表达的多系统疾病。受影响的个体通常表现为脑血管疾病(cSVD),难以控制的脑出血(ICH),耐药癫痫,小眼和先天性白内障。严重的表型通常与破坏α1/α2异源三聚体组装的甘氨酸取代有关,尽管插入、缺失和单倍不足似乎也是致病的。对IV型胶原α1和α2生物学以及特异性变异如何影响其功能的了解有限,再加上缺乏快速的体内功能变异分类分析,阻碍了患者分层和治疗发展。在这里,我们在斑马鱼中建立并表征了两个互补的col4a1敲低(KD)模型。利用其透明性和快速发展的优势,我们建立了神经血管和眼部表型的体内分析。这两种模型都再现了人类疾病的关键特征,包括脑室肿大、自发性和外伤性脑出血引起的血管易碎性、小眼和白内障。值得注意的是,人类野生型COL4A1的表达部分挽救了大多数观察到的缺陷,而致病性甘氨酸替代变体却没有做到这一点。这些发现证实了斑马鱼的col4a1 KD是col4a1 /A2综合征某些方面的强大体内模型,强调了胶原IV α1在神经血管和眼部发育中的保守作用。我们的研究结果也支持单倍不足作为致病机制,以及显性负作用。这项工作为利用斑马鱼支持COL4A1和COL4A2变异的快速致病性评估和机制研究奠定了基础,并有可能加速靶向治疗的开发。
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