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  1. Article ; Online: Discoidin domain receptor-2 enhances secondary alveolar septation in mice by activating integrins and modifying focal adhesions.

    McGowan, Stephen E

    American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

    2023  Volume 324, Issue 3, Page(s) L307–L324

    Abstract: The extracellular matrix (ECM) of the pulmonary parenchyma must maintain the structural relationships among resident cells during the constant distortion imposed by respiration. This dictates that both the ECM and cells adapt to changes in shape, while ... ...

    Abstract The extracellular matrix (ECM) of the pulmonary parenchyma must maintain the structural relationships among resident cells during the constant distortion imposed by respiration. This dictates that both the ECM and cells adapt to changes in shape, while retaining their attachment. Membrane-associated integrins and discoidin domain receptors (DDR) bind collagen and transmit signals to the cellular cytoskeleton. Although the contributions of DDR2 to collagen deposition and remodeling during osseous development are evident, it is unclear how DDR2 contributes to lung development. Using mice (
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Animals ; Discoidin Domain Receptor 2/metabolism ; Integrins/metabolism ; Focal Adhesions/metabolism ; Discoidin Domain Receptors ; Collagen/metabolism ; Lung/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (EC 2.7.10.1) ; Integrins ; Discoidin Domain Receptors (EC 2.7.10.1) ; Collagen (9007-34-5)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 1013184-x
    ISSN 1522-1504 ; 1040-0605
    ISSN (online) 1522-1504
    ISSN 1040-0605
    DOI 10.1152/ajplung.00169.2022
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  2. Article ; Online: The lipofibroblast: more than a lipid-storage depot.

    McGowan, Stephen E

    American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

    2019  Volume 316, Issue 5, Page(s) L869–L871

    MeSH term(s) Lipids ; Lung ; Pulmonary Alveoli
    Chemical Substances Lipids
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-03-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 1013184-x
    ISSN 1522-1504 ; 1040-0605
    ISSN (online) 1522-1504
    ISSN 1040-0605
    DOI 10.1152/ajplung.00109.2019
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  3. Article ; Online: Drebrin is Required for Myosin-facilitated Actin Cytoskeletal Remodeling during Pulmonary Alveolar Development.

    McGowan, Stephen E / Gilfanov, Nikolas / Chandurkar, Mohanish K / Stiber, Jonathan A / Han, Sangyoon J

    American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

    2024  Volume 70, Issue 4, Page(s) 308–321

    Abstract: Alveolar septation increases gas-exchange surface area and requires coordinated cytoskeletal rearrangement in lung fibroblasts (LFs) to balance the demands of contraction and cell migration. We hypothesized that DBN (drebrin), a modulator of the actin ... ...

    Abstract Alveolar septation increases gas-exchange surface area and requires coordinated cytoskeletal rearrangement in lung fibroblasts (LFs) to balance the demands of contraction and cell migration. We hypothesized that DBN (drebrin), a modulator of the actin cytoskeleton in neuronal dendrites, regulates the remodeling of the LF cytoskeleton. Using mice bearing a transgelin-Cre-targeted deletion of Dbn in pulmonary fibroblasts and pericytes, we examined alterations in alveolar septal outgrowth, LF spreading and migration, and actomyosin function. The alveolar surface area and number of alveoli were reduced, whereas alveolar ducts were enlarged, in mice bearing the
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Animals ; Actins/metabolism ; Neuropeptides/genetics ; Neuropeptides/metabolism ; Lung/metabolism ; Actin Cytoskeleton/metabolism ; Myosin Light Chains/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Actins ; drebrins ; Neuropeptides ; Myosin Light Chains
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1025960-0
    ISSN 1535-4989 ; 1044-1549
    ISSN (online) 1535-4989
    ISSN 1044-1549
    DOI 10.1165/rcmb.2023-0229OC
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  4. Article ; Online: Neuropilin-1 directs PDGFRα-entry into lung fibroblasts and signaling from very early endosomes.

    McGowan, Stephen E / McCoy, Diann M

    American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

    2020  Volume 320, Issue 2, Page(s) L179–L192

    Abstract: Platelet-derived growth factor receptor-α (PDGFRα) is absolutely required for the development of secondary pulmonary alveolar septa. Our earlier observations indicated that PDGFRα resides intracellularly as well as on the plasma membrane of murine lung ... ...

    Abstract Platelet-derived growth factor receptor-α (PDGFRα) is absolutely required for the development of secondary pulmonary alveolar septa. Our earlier observations indicated that PDGFRα resides intracellularly as well as on the plasma membrane of murine lung fibroblasts (LF). We have examined how neuropilin-1 (Nrp1), a surface receptor without kinase activity, regulates the intracellular trafficking of PDGFRα in LF obtained from mice, some bearing a targeted deletion of Nrp1 in myofibroblasts. Using the proximity ligation assay, we observed that PDGFRα and Nrp1 colocalized in both early antigen-1 (EEA1) containing sorting endosomes and with adaptor protein containing a pleckstrin homology domain and a phosphotyrosine-binding domain-1 (APPL1) in very early endosomes (VEE). These findings were confirmed using live-cell imaging, which demonstrated that recently internalized PDGFRα was observed in Rab5-containing vesicles residing within 100 nm of the plasma membrane. Nrp1 deletion reduced the phosphorylation of Akt (protein kinase B), the major downstream target of PDGFRα, and limited accumulation of inositol-3 phosphates in APPL1-containing endosomes after exposure to PDGFA. PDGFRα co-immunoprecipitated with APPL1, indicating that PDGFRα enters VEE. Targeted deletion of Nrp1 or APPL1-depletion in control LF reduced the activity of an Akt1 biosensor following stimulation with PDGFA. Our findings demonstrate that Nrp1 enhances the entry of PDGFRα into APPL1 containing VEE and that APPL1 enhances PDGFRα signaling. Therefore, Nrp1 promotes endosomal signaling by PDGFRα offering a potential mechanism to explain our prior observation that Nrp1 supports the formation of alveolar ducts and alveoli during secondary septation in mice.
    MeSH term(s) Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism ; Animals ; Endosomes/genetics ; Endosomes/metabolism ; Fibroblasts/cytology ; Fibroblasts/metabolism ; Lung/cytology ; Lung/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Neuropilin-1/genetics ; Neuropilin-1/metabolism ; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics ; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/genetics ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism ; Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor beta/genetics ; Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor beta/metabolism ; Signal Transduction
    Chemical Substances Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Appl1 protein, mouse ; Neuropilin-1 (144713-63-3) ; Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor beta (EC 2.7.10.1) ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt (EC 2.7.11.1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-11-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 1013184-x
    ISSN 1522-1504 ; 1040-0605
    ISSN (online) 1522-1504
    ISSN 1040-0605
    DOI 10.1152/ajplung.00149.2020
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  5. Article ; Online: DNA methylation profiles in the blood of newborn term infants born to mothers with obesity.

    Sasaki, Aya / Murphy, Kellie E / Briollais, Laurent / McGowan, Patrick O / Matthews, Stephen G

    PloS one

    2022  Volume 17, Issue 5, Page(s) e0267946

    Abstract: Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with ... ...

    Abstract Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with obesity during pregnancy show alterations that are detectable at birth. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation modifications have been proposed to mediate prenatal programming. We investigated DNA methylation signatures in male and female infants from mothers with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m2) compared to mothers with obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2). BMI was measured during the first prenatal visit from women recruited into the Ontario Birth Study (OBS) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, ON, Canada. DNA was extracted from neonatal dried blood spots collected from heel pricks obtained 24 hours after birth at term (total n = 40) from women with a normal BMI and women with obesity matched for parity, age, and neonatal sex. Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing was used to identify genomic loci associated with differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in CpG-dense regions most likely to influence gene regulation. DMRs were predominantly localized to intergenic regions and gene bodies, with only 9% of DMRs localized to promoter regions. Genes associated with DMRs were compared to those from a large publicly available cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC; total n = 859). Hypergeometric tests revealed a significant overlap in genes associated with DMRs in the OBS and ALSPAC cohorts. PTPRN2, a gene involved in insulin secretion, and MAD1L1, which plays a role in the cell cycle and tumor suppression, contained DMRs in males and females in both cohorts. In males, KEGG pathway analysis revealed significant overrepresentation of genes involved in endocytosis and pathways in cancer, including IGF1R, which was previously shown to respond to diet-induced metabolic stress in animal models and in lymphocytes in the context of childhood obesity. These preliminary findings are consistent with Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm, which posits that adverse prenatal exposures set developmental health trajectories.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Child ; Cohort Studies ; DNA Methylation ; Female ; Humans ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Mothers ; Ontario ; Pediatric Obesity/genetics ; Pregnancy
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0267946
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  6. Article ; Online: Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Cephamycin-Based Antisporulation Agents targeting

    Cun, Wendy Y / Bate, Clara E / Srikhanta, Yogitha N / Hutton, Melanie L / Webb, Chaille T / Revitt-Mills, Sarah A / Lyras, Dena / McGowan, Sheena / Yu, Haibo / Keller, Paul A / Pyne, Stephen G

    Journal of medicinal chemistry

    2023  Volume 67, Issue 1, Page(s) 450–466

    Abstract: With the aim of discovering small molecule inhibitors of the sporulation process ... ...

    Abstract With the aim of discovering small molecule inhibitors of the sporulation process in
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Mice ; Cephamycins/metabolism ; Clostridioides difficile ; Clostridioides ; Cefotetan/metabolism ; Clostridium Infections ; Spores, Bacterial ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Cephamycins ; Cefotetan (48SPP0PA9Q) ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Bacterial Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 218133-2
    ISSN 1520-4804 ; 0022-2623
    ISSN (online) 1520-4804
    ISSN 0022-2623
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01662
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  7. Article ; Online: DNA methylation profiles in the blood of newborn term infants born to mothers with obesity.

    Aya Sasaki / Kellie E Murphy / Laurent Briollais / Patrick O McGowan / Stephen G Matthews

    PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 5, p e

    2022  Volume 0267946

    Abstract: Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with ... ...

    Abstract Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with obesity during pregnancy show alterations that are detectable at birth. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation modifications have been proposed to mediate prenatal programming. We investigated DNA methylation signatures in male and female infants from mothers with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m2) compared to mothers with obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2). BMI was measured during the first prenatal visit from women recruited into the Ontario Birth Study (OBS) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, ON, Canada. DNA was extracted from neonatal dried blood spots collected from heel pricks obtained 24 hours after birth at term (total n = 40) from women with a normal BMI and women with obesity matched for parity, age, and neonatal sex. Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing was used to identify genomic loci associated with differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in CpG-dense regions most likely to influence gene regulation. DMRs were predominantly localized to intergenic regions and gene bodies, with only 9% of DMRs localized to promoter regions. Genes associated with DMRs were compared to those from a large publicly available cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC; total n = 859). Hypergeometric tests revealed a significant overlap in genes associated with DMRs in the OBS and ALSPAC cohorts. PTPRN2, a gene involved in insulin secretion, and MAD1L1, which plays a role in the cell cycle and tumor suppression, contained DMRs in males and females in both cohorts. In males, KEGG pathway analysis revealed significant overrepresentation of genes involved in endocytosis and pathways in cancer, including IGF1R, which was previously shown to respond to diet-induced metabolic stress in animal models and in lymphocytes in the context ...
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article ; Online: DNA methylation profiles in the blood of newborn term infants born to mothers with obesity

    Aya Sasaki / Kellie E. Murphy / Laurent Briollais / Patrick O. McGowan / Stephen G. Matthews

    PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss

    2022  Volume 5

    Abstract: Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with ... ...

    Abstract Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for childhood obesity and influences the prevalence of metabolic diseases in offspring. As childhood obesity is influenced by postnatal factors, it is critical to determine whether children born to women with obesity during pregnancy show alterations that are detectable at birth. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation modifications have been proposed to mediate prenatal programming. We investigated DNA methylation signatures in male and female infants from mothers with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI 18.5–24.9 kg/m2) compared to mothers with obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2). BMI was measured during the first prenatal visit from women recruited into the Ontario Birth Study (OBS) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, ON, Canada. DNA was extracted from neonatal dried blood spots collected from heel pricks obtained 24 hours after birth at term (total n = 40) from women with a normal BMI and women with obesity matched for parity, age, and neonatal sex. Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing was used to identify genomic loci associated with differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in CpG-dense regions most likely to influence gene regulation. DMRs were predominantly localized to intergenic regions and gene bodies, with only 9% of DMRs localized to promoter regions. Genes associated with DMRs were compared to those from a large publicly available cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC; total n = 859). Hypergeometric tests revealed a significant overlap in genes associated with DMRs in the OBS and ALSPAC cohorts. PTPRN2, a gene involved in insulin secretion, and MAD1L1, which plays a role in the cell cycle and tumor suppression, contained DMRs in males and females in both cohorts. In males, KEGG pathway analysis revealed significant overrepresentation of genes involved in endocytosis and pathways in cancer, including IGF1R, which was previously shown to respond to diet-induced metabolic stress in animal models and in lymphocytes in the context of childhood obesity. These preliminary findings are consistent with Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm, which posits that adverse prenatal exposures set developmental health trajectories.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: Paracrine cellular and extracellular matrix interactions with mesenchymal progenitors during pulmonary alveolar septation.

    McGowan, Stephen E

    Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology

    2014  Volume 100, Issue 3, Page(s) 227–239

    Abstract: Alveolar development in humans primarily occurs postnatally and requires a carefully orchestrated expansion of distal epithelial and mesenchymal progenitor populations and coordinated differentiation, to create a highly segmented gas-exchange surface. ... ...

    Abstract Alveolar development in humans primarily occurs postnatally and requires a carefully orchestrated expansion of distal epithelial and mesenchymal progenitor populations and coordinated differentiation, to create a highly segmented gas-exchange surface. The regulation of alveolarization normally assimilates cues from paracrine cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix, and mechanical interactions which are superimposed on cells and the extracellular matrix through phasic respiratory movement. In bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the entire process is precociously initiated when cellular and extracellular components are adapted to the saccular stage where movement and circulation are much more limited. This review focuses on mesenchymal cells (fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and pericytes), and epithelial cells are primarily discussed as sources of growth factor ligands or recipients of ligands produced by mesenchymal cells. Some interstitial fibroblasts differentiate to contractile myofibroblasts, containing a smooth muscle-actin rich cytoskeleton, which connects with tensile and elastic elements in the extracellular matrix, and together comprise a load-bearing network that diffuses mechanical forces during respiration. Other interstitial fibroblasts assimilate neutral lipid droplets, which regulate the differentiation of distal epithelial progenitors and surfactant production by alveolar type 2 cells. Pericytes organize and reinforce the capillary network as it expands to match the coverage of type 1 epithelial cells. Hyperoxia and the mechanical load imposed by positive pressure mechanical ventilation disrupt these paracrine interactions, leaving thickened alveolar walls, airways and arterioles, thereby diminishing gas-exchange surface area. Better understanding of these mechanisms of alveolar septation will lead to more effective treatments to preserve and perhaps augment the surface usual sequence of events that drive alveolarization.
    MeSH term(s) Capillaries/metabolism ; Cell Differentiation/physiology ; Extracellular Matrix/metabolism ; Humans ; Hyperoxia/metabolism ; Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology ; Mesenchymal Stem Cells/metabolism ; Paracrine Communication/physiology ; Pulmonary Alveoli/blood supply ; Pulmonary Alveoli/cytology ; Pulmonary Alveoli/growth & development ; Pulmonary Alveoli/metabolism
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-03-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2104792-3
    ISSN 1542-0760 ; 1542-0752 ; 1542-9733 ; 1542-975X
    ISSN (online) 1542-0760
    ISSN 1542-0752 ; 1542-9733 ; 1542-975X
    DOI 10.1002/bdra.23230
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  10. Article ; Online: BTB domain mutations perturbing KCTD15 oligomerisation cause a distinctive frontonasal dysplasia syndrome.

    Miller, Kerry A / Cruz Walma, David A / Pinkas, Daniel M / Tooze, Rebecca S / Bufton, Joshua C / Richardson, William / Manning, Charlotte E / Hunt, Alice E / Cros, Julien / Hartill, Verity / Parker, Michael J / McGowan, Simon J / Twigg, Stephen R F / Chalk, Rod / Staunton, David / Johnson, David / Wilkie, Andrew O M / Bullock, Alex N

    Journal of medical genetics

    2024  Volume 61, Issue 5, Page(s) 490–501

    Abstract: Introduction: KCTD15: Methods: Exome sequencing was performed on a two-generation family affected by a distinctive phenotype comprising a lipomatous frontonasal malformation, anosmia, cutis aplasia of the scalp and/or sparse hair, and congenital ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: KCTD15
    Methods: Exome sequencing was performed on a two-generation family affected by a distinctive phenotype comprising a lipomatous frontonasal malformation, anosmia, cutis aplasia of the scalp and/or sparse hair, and congenital heart disease. Identification of a de novo missense substitution within
    Results: A heterozygous c.310G>C variant encoding p.(Asp104His) within the BTB domain of
    Conclusion: BTB domain substitutions in KCTD1 and KCTD15 cause clinically overlapping phenotypes involving craniofacial abnormalities and cutis aplasia. The structural analyses demonstrate that missense substitutions act through a dominant negative mechanism by disrupting the higher order structure of the KCTD15 protein complex.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; BTB-POZ Domain ; Mutation ; Craniofacial Abnormalities/genetics ; Abnormalities, Multiple ; Mutation, Missense/genetics ; Syndrome ; Ectodermal Dysplasia ; Co-Repressor Proteins/genetics ; Face/abnormalities
    Chemical Substances KCTD1 protein, human ; Co-Repressor Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-19
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 220881-7
    ISSN 1468-6244 ; 0022-2593
    ISSN (online) 1468-6244
    ISSN 0022-2593
    DOI 10.1136/jmg-2023-109531
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