Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Endothelial adenosine A2a receptor-mediated glycolysis is essential for pathological retinal angiogenesis

  • Zhiping Liu,
  • Siyuan Yan,
  • Jiaojiao Wang,
  • Yiming Xu,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Shuya Zhang,
  • Xizhen Xu,
  • Qiuhua Yang,
  • Xianqiu Zeng,
  • Yaqi Zhou,
  • Xuejiao Gu,
  • Sarah Lu,
  • Zhongjie Fu,
  • David J. Fulton,
  • Neal L. Weintraub,
  • Ruth B. Caldwell,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Chaodong Wu,
  • Xiao-Ling Liu,
  • Jiang-Fan Chen,
  • Aftab Ahmad,
  • Ismail Kaddour-Djebbar,
  • Mohamed Al-Shabrawey,
  • Qinkai Li,
  • Xuejun Jiang,
  • Ye Sun,
  • Akrit Sodhi,
  • Lois Smith,
  • Mei Hong,
  • Yuqing Huo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00551-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Pathological angiogenesis in the retina is a major cause of blindness. Here the authors show that adenosine receptor A2A drives pathological angiogenesis in the oxygen-induced retinopathy mouse model by promoting glycolysis in endothelial cells via the ERK/Akt/HIF-1α pathway, thereby suggesting new therapeutic targets for disease treatment.