Identification of a pro-angiogenic functional role for FSP1-positive fibroblast subtype in wound healing

Sarika Saraswati (), Stephanie M. W. Marrow, Lester A. Watch and Pampee P. Young ()
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Sarika Saraswati: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Stephanie M. W. Marrow: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lester A. Watch: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Pampee P. Young: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract Fibrosis accompanying wound healing can drive the failure of many different organs. Activated fibroblasts are the principal determinants of post-injury pathological fibrosis along with physiological repair, making them a difficult therapeutic target. Although activated fibroblasts are phenotypically heterogeneous, they are not recognized as distinct functional entities. Using mice that express GFP under the FSP1 or αSMA promoter, we characterized two non-overlapping fibroblast subtypes from mouse hearts after myocardial infarction. Here, we report the identification of FSP1-GFP+ cells as a non-pericyte, non-hematopoietic fibroblast subpopulation with a predominant pro-angiogenic role, characterized by in vitro phenotypic/cellular/ultrastructural studies and in vivo granulation tissue formation assays combined with transcriptomics and proteomics. This work identifies a fibroblast subtype that is functionally distinct from the pro-fibrotic αSMA-expressing myofibroblast subtype. Our study has the potential to shift our focus towards viewing fibroblasts as molecularly and functionally heterogeneous and provides a paradigm to approach treatment for organ fibrosis.

Date: 2019
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