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* Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine, and
Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
Theodor Kocher Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and
Nephro-Urology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
1Correspondence: Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine, and Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave., RW663, Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: hyuan{at}bidmc.harvard.edu
A critical role for Tie1, an orphan endothelial receptor, in blood vessel morphogenesis has emerged from mutant mouse studies. Moreover, it was recently demonstrated that certain angiopoietin (Ang) family members can activate Tie1. We report here that Ang1 induces Tie1 phosphorylation in endothelial cells. Tie1 phosphorylation was, however, Tie2 dependent because 1) Ang1 failed to induce Tie1 phosphorylation when Tie2 was down-regulated in endothelial cells; 2) Tie1 phosphorylation was induced in the absence of Ang1 by either a constitutively active form of Tie2 or a Tie2 agonistic antibody; 3) in HEK 293 cells Ang1 phosphorylated a form of Tie1 without kinase activity when coexpressed with Tie2, and Ang1 failed to phosphorylate Tie1 when coexpressed with kinase-defective Tie2. Ang1-mediated AKT and 42/44MAPK phosphorylation is predominantly Tie2 mediated, and Tie1 down-regulates this pathway. Finally, based on a battery of in vitro and in vivo data, we show that a main role for Tie1 is to modulate blood vessel morphogenesis by virtue of its ability to down-regulate Tie2-driven signaling and endothelial survival. Our new observations help to explain why Tie1 null embryos have increased capillary densities in several organ systems. The experiments also constitute a paradigm for how endothelial integrity is fine-tuned by the interplay between closely related receptors by a single growth factor.—Yuan, H. T., Venkatesha, S., Chan, B., Deutsch, U., Mammoto, T., Sukhatme, V. P., Woolf, A. S., Karumanchi, S. A. Activation of the orphan endothelial receptor Tie1 modifies Tie2-mediated intracellular signaling and cell survival.
Key Words: angiopoietin • apoptosis • embryo • endothelial cells • Tie receptors
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