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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 557-562Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm_00000265
Keywords
anti-beta(2)-glycoprotein I antibodies; beta(2)-glycoprotein I; annexin A2; monocyte; tissue factor
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30370602, 30670907]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Y206830]
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Growing evidence suggests that autoantibodies directly contribute to hypercoagulability in the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). One proposed mechanism is the antibody-induced expression of tissue factor (TF) by blood monocytes. Annexin A2 (ANX2), a mediator of cell surface-specific plasmin generation, was identified to mediate endothelial cell activation by anti-beta(2)-glycoprotein I (anti-beta(2)GPI) antibody. Our previous study suggested that ANX2 was also involved in anti-beta(2)GPI/beta(2)GPI-induced TF expression on monocytes. In the current study, it was further demonstrated that beta(2)GPI interacts with ANX2 not only in a cell-dependent form but also in a cell-free system. To further confirm the effects of ANX2 on anti-beta(2)GPI/beta(2)GPI-induced TF expression, an ANX2 cDNA-containing vector was transfected into HEK 293T cells which had originally little ANX2, then cells were treated by anti-beta(2)GPI/beta(2)GPI complex. It was found that transfected HEK 293T cells could express more TF both at mRNA and protein levels than that of no-transfected cells. On the other hand, the TF expression was dramatically decreased in the THP-1 cells in which the ANX2 RNA interference was performed. In conclusion, these results indicate that ANX2 on cell surface functions as a mediator boosting TF expression on monocytes induced by anti-beta(2)GPI/beta(2)GPI complex, which is contributed to the thrombotic events in APS.
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