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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (August 4, 2006). doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00153.2006
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Submitted on February 9, 2006
Accepted on August 1, 2006

Cardiac Myofibroblasts Differentiated in 3-D Culture Exhibit Distinct Changes in Collagen I Production, Processing, and Matrix Deposition

Felicitta Poobalarahi1, Catalin F. Baicu2, and Amy D. Bradshaw1*

1 Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
2 Medicine-Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bradshad{at}musc.edu.

Myofibroblasts are a differentiated fibroblast cell type characterized by increased contractile capacity and elevated production of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. In the heart, myofibroblast expression is implicated in fibrosis associated with pressure-overload hypertrophy, among other pathologies. Although enhanced expression of ECM proteins by myofibroblasts is established, few studies have addressed the nature of the ECM deposited by myofibroblasts. To characterize ECM production and assembly by cardiac myofibroblasts, we developed a three-dimensional (3D) culture system using primary cardiac fibroblasts seeded into a nylon mesh that allows us to reversibly interconvert between myofibroblast and fibroblast phenotypes. We report that an increase in collagen I production by myofibroblasts was accompanied by a significant increase in collagen deposition into insoluble ECM. Furthermore, myofibroblasts exhibited increased levels of pC collagen alpha 1(I) relative to procollagen alpha 1(I) in comparison to fibroblast cultures. An increase in production of the myofibroblast-associated splice variant of fibronectin (EDA-Fn) was seen in myofibroblast 3D cultures. As the regulation of procollagen I processing is known to have profound effects on ECM assembly, differences in procollagen I secretion and maturation coupled with expression of EDA-Fn are shown to contribute to the production of a distinct ECM by the cardiac myofibroblast.




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