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Ottawa,ON,Canada KursadTurksen Contents ApelinReceptorSignalingDuringMesodermDevelopment. . . . . 1 DeryaSağraç,HaticeBurcuŞişli,andAyşegülDoğan EpidermalStemCellsinRegenerativeMedicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 SimonaMartinotti,KatiaMarconato,GregorioBonsignore, andEliaRanzato TheCellularandMolecularPatternsInvolvedintheNeural DifferentiationofAdipose-DerivedStemCells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 AidaSelaru,SorinaDinescu,andMarietaCostache BiomatricesforHeartRegenerationandCardiacTissue ModellingInVitro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 I.Kulvinskiene,R.Aldonyte,R.Miksiunas,A.Mobasheri, andDaivaBironaite Dentin-PulpTissueRegenerationApproachesinDentistry: AnOverviewandCurrentTrends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 SonerSismanogluandP{narErcal StemCellCultureUnderSimulatedMicrogravity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 MugeAnil-Inevi,OykuSarigil,MelikeKizilkaya,GulistanMese, H.CumhurTekin,andEnginOzcivici SmartPolymericSystems:ABiomedicalViewpoint. . . . . . . . . . . 133 AfsanehAdibfar,SamanehHosseini,andMohamadrezaBaghaban Eslaminejad AcuteLungInjury:DiseaseModellingandtheTherapeutic PotentialofStemCells. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 149 JieLian,JuntangLin,NorashikinZakaria,andBadrulHisham Yahaya COVID-19andMesenchymalStemCellTreatment; MysteryorNot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 TuncAkkoc PCDH19PathogenicVariantsinMales:Expanding thePhenotypicSpectrum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 KristyL.Kolc,RikkeS.Møller,LynetteG.Sadleir, IngridE.Scheffer,RamanKumar,andJozefGecz Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 AdvExpMedBiol-CellBiologyandTranslationalMedicine(2020)10:1–15 https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2020_567 #SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2020 Publishedonline:10July2020 Apelin Receptor Signaling During Mesoderm Development Derya Sağraç, Hatice Burcu Şişli, and Ayşegül Doğan Abstract Determination of Aplnr signaling and underlying mechanisms during mammalian The Apelin receptor (Aplnr) is a G-protein development might enable understanding of coupledreceptorwhichhasawidebodydistri- regulatory molecular mechanisms which not butionandvariousphysiologicalrolesinclud- only control embryonic development process ing homeostasis, angiogenesis, cardiovascular but also control tissue function and disease and neuroendocrine function. Apelin and pathologyintheadultbody. Elabela are two peptide components of the Aplnrsignalingandarecleavedtogivediffer- Keywords ent isoforms which are active in different tissuesandorganisms. Apelin·Apelinreceptor·Development· Aplnr signaling is related to several Elabela·Mesoderm pathologies including obesity, heart disases and cancer in the adult body. However, the developmentalroleinmammalianembryogen- Abbreviations esis is crucial for migration of early cardiac progenitors and cardiac function. Aplnr and ACTH AdrenocorticotropicHormone peptide components have a role in prolifera- Aplnr ApelinReceptor tion,differentiationandmovementofendoder- AVP ArginineVasopressinHormone malprecursors.AlthoughexpressionofAplnr bFGF BasicFibroblastGrowthFactor signaling is observed in endodermal lineages, BMP-4 BoneMorphogenicProtein-4 the main function is the control of mesoderm CD ClusterofDifferentiation cell movement and cardiac development. CNS CentralNervousSystem Mutant of the Aplnr signaling components DNA DeoxyribonucleicAcid results in the malformations, defects and Ela Elabela lethality mainly due to the deformed heart EMT Epithelial to Mesenchymal function. This developmental role share simi- Transition larity with the cardiovascular functions in the eNOS EndothelialNitricOxideSynthase adultbody. FGF FibroblastGrowthFactor FOXF-1 ForkheadBoxF-1 D.Sağraç,H.B.Şişli,andA.Doğan(*) GATA-4 GATABindingProtein-4 DepartmentofGeneticsandBioengineering,Facultyof Engineering,YeditepeUniversity,Istanbul,Turkey e-mail:[email protected] 1 2 D.Sağraçetal. HAND-1 Heart-andNeuralCrestDerivatives- acids, including a signal peptide consisting of ExpressedProtein-1 22aminoacidsatNterminal.Followingthepro- hESCs HumanEmbryonicStemCells cesses of proteolytic cleavage and maturation, HIV HumanImmunodeficiencyVirus three main isoforms of Apelin among various HUVEC Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial others were characterized as 36 amino acids Cells long Apelin-36, 17 amino acids long Apelin-17 IFN Interferon and 13 amino acids long Apelin-13, which is IL Interleukin known as the most active form of the peptide IRX-3 Iroquois-class Homeodomain Pro- (Tatemoto et al. 1998; Hosoya et al. 2000; tein-3 Mesminetal.2011;Zhenetal.2013;Shinetal. KO KnockOut 2018). Another endogenous ligand of Aplnr, MEOX-1 MesenchymeHomeobox-1 which was named as Elabela (Ela), also called mESCs MouseEmbryonicStemCells as Apela or Toddler, was revealed in zebrafish mRNA MessengerRibonucleicAcid in 2013. This peptide hormone was reported to MYH-6 MyosinHeavyChain-6 consist of 54 amino acids, including N terminal Nkx-2.5 NK-2Homeobox-5 signalpeptide,andmakestheactiveformsofEla OXY Oxytocin consisting of 32 amino acids (Ela-32), 21 amino PAX-3 PairedBox-3 acids(Ela-21)and11aminoacids(Ela-11)(Chng PHA Phytohemagglutinin etal.2013;Paulietal.2014a). PVN ParaventricularNucleus AftertheactivationofheterotrimericAplnrby siRNA SmallInterferingRibonucleicAcid its ligand, the signal is delivered to downstream SON SupraopticNucleus pathwaystoregulatecellularevents.Gα subunit, i TBX-5 T-boxtranscriptionfactor-5 coupled to Aplnr, activates PI3K/Akt pathway TCF-15 TranscriptionFactor-15 and PKC/Erk pathway and inhibits adenylyn TDGF-1 Teratocarcinoma-Derived Growth cyclase, leading to inhibition of PKA by Factor-1 downregulating CAMP level (Hamada et al. TGF-β TransformingGrowthFactorBeta 2008; Masri et al. 2002; O’Carroll et al. 2013). VSMCs VascularSmoothMuscleCells Ontheotherhand,Gα subunit,coupledtoAplnr, q leads to activation of PKC pathway and upregulationofintracellularCa2+levelbyinduc- ingPLCβactivation.Also,Aplnr,activatedunder 1 Apelin Receptor Signaling mechanical stress, transduce signal in Pathway non-canonical pathway via β-arrestin to down- stream pathways, which are yet to be elucidated 1.1 Components of Apelin Receptor (Chapmanetal.2014;Murzaetal.2016). Signaling In 1993, Apelin receptor (Aplnr) was introduced 1.2 Tissue Distribution of Apelin as a member of class A rhodopsin-like guanine Receptor Signaling nucleotide binding (G) protein coupled receptors and the 377 amino acids long receptor was Since the discovery of the Aplnr, its distribution assumedorphanduetolackofitsspecifiedligand in various tissues have been reported including (O’Dowd et al. 1993). Apelin, the first identified heart, endothelium, lung, brain, kidney, adipose endogenous ligand of Aplnr, was obtained from tissue andplasma (Edingeretal.1998;Novakov theextractofbovinestomachin1998(Tatemoto etal. 2015). Rat, mouse and human tissuedistri- etal.1998).The9698bpApelingene,makingup bution analysis of Aplnr showed that the highest two introns and three exons, was revealed to similarity of Aplnr expression was observed in encode a prepropeptide, consisting of 77 amino centralnervoussystem(CNS).Thedistributionof ApelinReceptorSignalingDuringMesodermDevelopment 3 Aplnr mRNA in rat brain has shown that the human placenta, Ela is mainly expressed in highest level of mRNA expression has been cytotrophoblasts until the first trimester (Wang shown in hypothalamus (De Mota et al. 2000). et al. 2019; Georgiadou et al. 2019), while Similarly, mouse Aplnr mRNA expression has Aplnr and Apelin are expressed in syncytiotro- demonstrated a wide distribution in different phoblasts, cytotrophoblasts and endothelial cells CNS regions such as hypothalamus, pituitary, of placenta as well as fetal vessels until birth cerebral cortex, and spinal cord (Medhurst et al. (Eberlé et al. 2019). Similarly, Ela exists in 2003;Regardetal.2008).Thedetailedinvestiga- serum of pregnant mice during E7.5 to E12.5 of tion of Aplnr distribution in mice revealed that gestation (Ho et al. 2017). In rats, Aplnr mRNA Aplnrwasfoundatthelowestlevelintheposte- expression level was high in the lung and the riorpituitarybutrelativelyhigherintheCNSand heartandwasnotobservedincolon,testes,stom- in the anterior pituitary (Pope et al. 2012). Fur- achandliver(Hosoyaetal.2000;Medhurstetal. thermore,thecorpuscallosumandthespinalcord 2003). Besides, the rat Aplnr mRNA was express highest Aplnr mRNA level in human expressed in the kidney and in corpora lutea of CNS (Edinger et al. 1998; Medhurst et al. 2003; ovary(Różyckaetal.2018).Also,Medhurstand Matsumoto et al. 1996). Moreover, Choe and colleaguesreportedthatexceptforthymus,testis colleagues reported that the human Aplnr andbladder,almostalltissuesofmiceexpressed mRNAwashighlyexpressedinoligodendrocytes Aplnr mRNA and heart is the source of the and was relatively low in astrocytes (Choe et al. highest level of Aplnr mRNA (Medhurst et al. 2000). The high Apelin mRNA levels in both 2003). human and rodent CNS sections such as spinal Immunofluorescence analysis of human heart cord(Popeetal.2012),hippocampus(O’Donnell has shown that proapelin peptide is expressed in et al. 2007) and olfactory system (Cheng et al. theendocardialendotheliumandcardiomyocytes. 2012) may demonstrate that Aplnr pathway However,studiesabout Apelin peptideinvascu- contributestothedevelopmentofnervoussystem lar smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are controver- in both human and rodent species. All these sial. It has been reported that vascular smooth similaritiessuggestthatAplnranditsligandsare muscle cells expressed Apelin peptide (Li et al. preserved among the high vertebrate throughout 2008; Luo et al. 2018) whereas, Mughal and evolutionaryprocesses. Pitkin determined separately that Apelin peptide The general distribution of Aplnr between isabsentinVSMCsandonlyexpressedinvessels humanandrattissuesissimilar,butthissimilarity of patients with atherosclerosis (Mughal and wasnotseenintheperipheralorgandistribution. O’Rourke2018;Pitkinetal.2010).Ontheother In human tissues, Aplnr mRNA level is high in hand,Aplnrisdetectednotonlyinhumanvascu- the spleen and relatively low in the small intes- lar endothelial cells andcardiomyocytes butalso tine,colonmucosaandovaries.Moreover,Aplnr in smooth muscle cells (Folino et al. 2015; mRNA has not been reported in bone marrow, Kidoya and Takakura 2012; Kleinz et al. 2005). thymus, or epididymis tissues (The Human Pro- Thus,theelevatedlevelsofAplnrtranscriptsand teinAtlasn.d.).Also,Aplnrlocusismethylatedin proteins might be a reason why lungs and the undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells heart have a high vascularization network as (hESCs) and therefore it is not present on the found in the spleen and placenta. During the surface of hESCs. On the contrary, Ela is highly mouse embryonic development (E9.5–10.5), expressed and required for the self-renewal of Aplnr mRNA is mainly found in the endothelial hESCs (Ho et al. 2015). Subsequent studies layer of the vessels in the cardiovascular system have reported that placenta has high level of (Kangetal.2013)andintheretinalvesselsafter Aplnr expression, whereas low level of Aplnr birth (Saint-Geniez et al. 2002). Inductive mRNA expression were found in heart, lung, neovascular roles of the Aplnr signaling have stomach, liver, pancreas, intestines and kidneys been directed scientists to investigate the Aplnr- (Medhurstetal.2003).Ithasbeenreportedthatin cancerrelationship.Aplnrsignalingisenrichedin