Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Epsin-mediated degradation of IP3R1 fuels atherosclerosis

  • Yunzhou Dong,
  • Yang Lee,
  • Kui Cui,
  • Ming He,
  • Beibei Wang,
  • Sudarshan Bhattacharjee,
  • Bo Zhu,
  • Tadayuki Yago,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Lin Deng,
  • Kunfu Ouyang,
  • Aiyun Wen,
  • Douglas B. Cowan,
  • Kai Song,
  • Lili Yu,
  • Megan L. Brophy,
  • Xiaolei Liu,
  • Jill Wylie-Sears,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Scott Wong,
  • Guanglin Cui,
  • Yusuke Kawashima,
  • Hiroyuki Matsumoto,
  • Yoshio Kodera,
  • Richard J. H. Wojcikiewicz,
  • Sanjay Srivastava,
  • Joyce Bischoff,
  • Da-Zhi Wang,
  • Klaus Ley,
  • Hong Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17848-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction and inflammation contribute to plaque destabilization in atherosclerosis, increasing the risk of thrombotic events. Here, the authors show that epsin promotes EC inflammation via a mechanism involving IP3R1 degradation, and that deletion of epsin in the endothelium prevents EC dysfunctoin and atherosclerosis in mice.