Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Preservation of microvascular barrier function requires CD31 receptor-induced metabolic reprogramming

  • Kenneth C. P. Cheung,
  • Silvia Fanti,
  • Claudio Mauro,
  • Guosu Wang,
  • Anitha S. Nair,
  • Hongmei Fu,
  • Silvia Angeletti,
  • Silvia Spoto,
  • Marta Fogolari,
  • Francesco Romano,
  • Dunja Aksentijevic,
  • Weiwei Liu,
  • Baiying Li,
  • Lixin Cheng,
  • Liwen Jiang,
  • Juho Vuononvirta,
  • Thanushiyan R. Poobalasingam,
  • David M. Smith,
  • Massimo Ciccozzi,
  • Egle Solito,
  • Federica M. Marelli-Berg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17329-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The mechanisms that restore endothelial barrier integrity following inflammation-induced breaching are incompletely understood. Here the authors show that the CD31 immune receptor contributes to reestablishing vascular integrity via its effects on endothelial cell metabolism.