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Journal Article
Lumenal calcification and microvasculopathy in fetuin-A-deficient mice lead to multiple organ morbidity
2020
Overview
The plasma protein fetuin-A mediates the formation of protein-mineral colloids known as calciprotein particles (CPP)-rapid clearance of these CPP by the reticuloendothelial system prevents errant mineral precipitation and therefore pathological mineralization (calcification). The mutant mouse strain D2,Ahsg-/- combines fetuin-A deficiency with the calcification-prone DBA/2 genetic background, having a particularly severe compound phenotype of microvascular and soft tissue calcification. Here we studied mechanisms leading to soft tissue calcification, organ damage and death in these mice. We analyzed mice longitudinally by echocardiography, X-ray-computed tomography, analytical electron microscopy, histology, mass spectrometry proteomics, and genome-wide microarray-based expression analyses of D2 wildtype and Ahsg-/- mice. Fetuin-A-deficient mice had calcified lesions in myocardium, lung, brown adipose tissue, reproductive organs, spleen, pancreas, kidney and the skin, associated with reduced growth, cardiac output and premature death. Importantly, early-stage calcified lesions presented in the lumen of the microvasculature suggesting precipitation of mineral containing complexes from the fluid phase of blood. Genome-wide expression analysis of calcified lesions and surrounding (not calcified) tissue, together with morphological observations, indicated that the calcification was not associated with osteochondrogenic cell differentiation, but rather with thrombosis and fibrosis. Collectively, these results demonstrate that soft tissue calcification can start by intravascular mineral deposition causing microvasculopathy, which impacts on growth, organ function and survival. Our study underscores the importance of fetuin-A and related systemic regulators of calcified matrix metabolism to prevent cardiovascular disease, especially in dysregulated mineral homeostasis.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein - deficiency
/ alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein - genetics
/ Animals
/ Biology
/ Cardiovascular Diseases - genetics
/ Cardiovascular Diseases - pathology
/ Colloids
/ Death
/ Diseases
/ EDTA
/ Fibrosis
/ Genomes
/ Genomics
/ Kidneys
/ Lesions
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Mice
/ Microcirculation - physiology
/ Mononuclear Phagocyte System - metabolism
/ Mononuclear Phagocyte System - pathology
/ Multiple Organ Failure - genetics
/ Multiple Organ Failure - pathology
/ Mutants
/ Organs
/ Pancreas
/ Proteins
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Scientific equipment industry
/ Skin
/ Spleen
/ Vascular Calcification - genetics
