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Background: The fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family includes transmembrane receptors involved in a wide range of developmental and postdevelopmental biologic processes as well as a wide range of human diseases. In particular, FGFR3 has been implicated in the mechanism by which 9-cis retinoic acid (9-cisRA) induces lymphangiogenesis and improves lymphedema. The purpose of this study was to validate the efficacy of a novel small peptide FGFR3 inhibitor, peptide P3 (VSPPLTLGQLLS), and to elucidate the role of FGFR3 in 9-cisRA-induced lymphangiogenesis using this peptide.
Methods And Results: Peptide P3 effectively inhibited FGFR3 phosphorylation. In vitro, peptide P3-mediated FGFR3 inhibition did not decrease lymphatic endothelial cell (LEC) proliferation, migration, or tubule formation. However, peptide P3-mediated FGFR3 inhibition did block 9-cisRA-stimulated LEC proliferation, migration, and tubule formation. In vivo, peptide P3-mediated FGFR3 inhibition was sufficient to inhibit 9-cisRA-induced tracheal lymphangiogenesis.
Conclusion: FGFR3 does not appear to be essential to nonpromoted LEC proliferation, migration, and tubule formation. However, FGFR3 may play a key role in LEC proliferation, migration, tubule formation, and postnatal in vivo lymphangiogenesis when pharmacologically induced by 9-cisRA. P3 may have the potential to be used as a precise regulatory control element for 9-cisRA-mediated lymphangiogenesis.
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