Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8347387 | Peptides | 2018 | 31 Pages |
Abstract
Synthetic innate defence regulator (IDR) peptides such as IDR-1018 modulate immunity to promote key protective functions including chemotaxis, wound healing, and anti-infective activity, while suppressing pro-inflammatory responses to non-pathological levels. Here we demonstrated that IDR-1018 induced, by up to 75-fold, pro-angiogenic VEGF-165 in keratinocytes but suppressed this isoform in endothelial cells. It also induced early angiogenin and prolonged anti-inflammatory TGFβ expression on endothelial cells, while suppressing early pro-inflammatory IL-1β expression levels. IDR-1018 also down-regulated the hypoxia induced transcription factor HIF-1α in both keratinocytes and endothelial cells. Consistent with these data, in an in vitro wound healing scratch assay, IDR-1018 induced migration of endothelial cells under conditions of hypoxia while in epithelial cells migration increased only under conditions of normoxia.
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Authors
Paulina Marin-Luevano, Valentin Trujillo, Adrian Rodriguez-Carlos, Irma González-Curiel, Jose A. Enciso-Moreno, Robert E.W. Hancock, Bruno Rivas-Santiago,