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1 Department of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515; and 2 Department of Physiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Proteolysis of the capillary basement membrane is a hallmark of inflammation-mediated angiogenesis, but it is undetermined whether proteolysis plays a critical role in the process of activity-induced angiogenesis. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) constitute the major class of proteases responsible for degradation of basement membrane proteins. We observed significant elevations of mRNA and protein levels of both MMP-2 and membrane type 1 (MT1)-MMP (2.9 ± 0.7- and 1.5 ± 0.1-fold above control, respectively) after 3 days of chronic electrical stimulation of rat skeletal muscle. Inhibition of MMP activity via the inhibitor GM-6001 prevented the growth of new capillaries as assessed by the capillary-to-fiber ratio (1.34 ± 0.08 in GM-6001-treated muscles compared with 1.69 ± 0.03 in control 7-day-stimulated muscles). This inhibition correlated with a significant reduction in the number of capillaries with observable breaks in the basement membrane, as assessed by electron microscopy (0.27 ± 0.27% in GM-6001-treated muscles compared with 3.72 ± 0.65% in control stimulated muscles). Proliferation of capillary-associated cells was significantly elevated by 2 days and remained elevated throughout 14 days of stimulation. Capillary-associated cell proliferation during muscle stimulation was not affected by MMP inhibition (80.3 ± 9.3 nuclei in control and 63.5 ± 8.5 nuclei in GM-6001-treated animals). We conclude that MMP proteolysis of capillary basement membrane proteins is a critical component of physiological angiogenesis, and we postulate that capillary-associated proliferation precedes and occurs independently of endothelial cell sprout formation.
proteolysis; endothelium; extensor digitorum longus; chronic electrical stimulation; extracellular matrix
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