NAVBO's Vascular Biology Publication Alert March 2015 Issue (papers published in February 2015) NAVBO Members are highlighted in dark red American Journal of Pathology Kazuyuki Yahagi and Renu Virmani. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease: a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension. Am J Pathol., 185(2):302–304 Naoki Ikenaga, Susan B Liu, Deanna Y Sverdlov, Shuhei Yoshida, Imad Nasser, Qingen Ke, Peter M Kang, Yury Popov. A new mdr2(-/-) mouse model of sclerosing cholangitis with rapid fibrosis progression, early-onset portal hypertension, and liver cancer. Am J Pathol., 185(2):325–334 Gladys Valverde-Franco, David Hum, Koichi Matsuo, Bertrand Lussier, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Hassan Fahmi, Mohit Kapoor, Johanne Martel-Pelletier. The in Vivo Effect of Prophylactic Subchondral Bone Protection of Osteoarthritic Synovial Membrane in Bone-Specific Ephb4-Overexpressing Mice. Am J Pathol., 185(2):335–346 Vasile I Pavlov, Ying S Tan, Erin E McClure, Laura R La Bonte, Chenhui Zou, William B Gorsuch, Gregory L Stahl. Human mannose-binding lectin inhibitor prevents myocardial injury and arterial thrombogenesis in a novel animal model. Am J Pathol., 185(2):347–355 Benoît Ranchoux, Sven Günther, Rozenn Quarck, Marie-Camille Chaumais, Peter Dorfmüller, Fabrice Antigny, Sébastien J Dumas, Nicolas Raymond, Edmund Lau, Laurent Savale, Xavier Jaïs, Olivier Sitbon, Gérald Simonneau, Kurt Stenmark, Sylvia Cohen-Kaminsky, Marc Humbert, David Montani, Frédéric Perros. Chemotherapy-induced pulmonary hypertension: role of alkylating agents. Am J Pathol., 185(2):356–371 Jeffrey Harding, Anna Ritter, Aditya Rayasam, Zsuzsanna Fabry, Matyas Sandor. Lymphangiogenesis Is Induced by Mycobacterial Granulomas via Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3 and Supports Systemic TCell Responses against Mycobacterial Antigen. Am J Pathol., 185(2):432–445 Padmanabhan P Pattabiraman, Tommy Rinkoski, Eric Poeschla, Alan Proia, Pratap Challa, Ponugoti V Rao. RhoA GTPase-Induced Ocular Hypertension in a Rodent Model Is Associated with Increased Fibrogenic Activity in the Trabecular Meshwork. Am J Pathol., 185(2):496–512 Florian Haller, Matthias Bieg, Evgeny A Moskalev, Sarah Barthelmeß, Helene Geddert, Carsten Boltze, Nicolle Diessl, Karin Braumandl, Benedikt Brors, Heinrich Iro, Arndt Hartmann, Stefan Wiemann, Abbas Agaimy. Recurrent Mutations within the Amino-Terminal Region of β-Catenin Are Probable Key Molecular Driver Events in Sinonasal Hemangiopericytoma. Am J Pathol., 185(2):563–571 Kosuke Akiyama, Nako Maishi, Noritaka Ohga, Yasuhiro Hida, Yusuke Ohba, Mohammad Towfik Alam, Taisuke Kawamoto, Hitomi Ohmura, Kenji Yamada, Chisaho Torii, Masanobu Shindoh, Kyoko Hida. Inhibition of multidrug transporter in tumor endothelial cells enhances antiangiogenic effects of low-dose metronomic Paclitaxel. Am J Pathol., 185(2):572–580 Nicholas Sitaras, José Carlos Rivera, Baraa Noueihed, Milsa Bien-Aimé, Karine Zaniolo, Samy Omri, David Hamel, Tang Zhu, Pierre Hardy, Przemyslaw Sapieha, Jean-Sébastien Joyal, Sylvain Chemtob. Retinal Neurons Curb Inflammation and Enhance Revascularization in Ischemic Retinopathies via Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2. Am J Pathol., 185(2):581–595 Biochemical Journal No vascular biology related publications this month Blood Sarah Bruneau, Mélanie Néel, Lubka T. Roumenina, Marie Frimat, Lætitia Laurent, Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi, Fadi Fakhouri. Loss of DGKε induces endothelial cell activation and death independently of complement activation. Blood, 125(6):1038-46 Il Ho Jang, Yi-Fen Lu, Long Zhao, Pamela L. Wenzel, Tsutomu Kume, Sumon M. Datta, Natasha Arora, Jordi Guiu, Mounia Lagha, Peter G. Kim, Eun Kyoung Do, Jae Ho Kim, Thorsten M. Schlaeger, Leonard I. Zon, Anna Bigas, Caroline E. Burns, George Q. Daley. Notch1 acts via Foxc2 to promote definitive hematopoiesis via effects on hemogenic endothelium. Blood, 125(9):1418-26 Ruchika Goel, Paul M. Ness, Clifford M. Takemoto, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Karen E. King, Aaron A. R. Tobian. Platelet transfusions in platelet consumptive disorders are associated with arterial thrombosis and inhospital mortality. Blood, 125(9):1470-6 Cancer Cell No vascular biology related publications this month Cancer Research No vascular biology related publications this month Cell No vascular biology related publications this month Clinical Science Daniel Villela, Julia Leonhardt, Neal Patel, Jason Joseph, Sebastian Kirsch, Anders Hallberg, Thomas Unger, Michael Bader, Robson A Santos, Colin Sumners, U Muscha Steckelings. Angiotensin type 2 receptor (AT2R) and receptor Mas: a complex liaison. Clin Sci (Lond)., 128(4):227–234 Development Takeru Kashiwada, Shigetomo Fukuhara, Kenta Terai, Toru Tanaka, Yuki Wakayama, Koji Ando, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Hajime Fukui, Shinya Yuge, Yoshinobu Saito, Akihiko Gemma, Naoki Mochizuki. β-catenin-dependent transcription is central to Bmp-mediated formation of venous vessels. Development, 142:497-509 Commentary: Reporting on β-catenin in the vasculature. Development, 142:e0303 Idit Eshkar-Oren, Sharon Krief, Napoleone Ferrara, Alison M. Elliott, Elazar Zelzer. Vascular patterning regulates interdigital cell death by a ROS-mediated mechanism. Development, 142:672-680 Commentary: Vascular patterning goes out on a limb. Development, 142:e0405 Yi Zhou, Rui Ge, Rui Wang, Feng Liu, Yuefeng Huang, Heng Liu, Yan Hao, Qin Zhou, Chen Wang. UXT potentiates angiogenesis by attenuating Notch signaling. Development, 142:774-786 Christopher J. Turner, Kwabena Badu-Nkansah, Denise Crowley, Arjan van der Flier, Richard O. Hynes. α5 and αv integrins cooperate to regulate vascular smooth muscle and neural crest functions in vivo. Development, 142:797-808 Developmental Biology Anshita Rai, James C. Cross. Three-dimensional cultures of trophoblast stem cells autonomously develop vascular-like spaces lined by trophoblast giant cells. Dev Biol., 398(1):110-119 Developmental Cell No vascular biology related publications this month Developmental Dynamics Cynthia R. Hill, Britni H. Jacobs, Christopher B. Brown, Joey V. Barnett and Steven L. Goudy. Type III transforming growth factor beta receptor regulates vascular and osteoblast development during palatogenesis. Dev Dynamics, 244(2):122–133 EMBO Roldan M de Guia, Adam J Rose, Anke Sommerfeld, Oksana Seibert, Daniela Strzoda, Annika Zota, Yvonne Feuchter, Anja Krones‐Herzig, Tjeerd Sijmonsma, Milen Kirilov, Carsten Sticht, Norbert Gretz, Geesje Dallinga‐Thie, Sven Diederichs, Nora Klöting, Matthias Blüher, Mauricio Berriel Diaz, Stephan Herzig. microRNA‐379 couples glucocorticoid hormones to dysfunctional lipid homeostasis. The EMBO Journal, 34(3):344-60 Michael B Gill, Rachel Turner, Philip G Stevenson, Michael Way. KSHV‐TK is a tyrosine kinase that disrupts focal adhesions and induces Rho‐mediated cell contraction. The EMBO Journal, 34(4):448-65 Michael Lagunoff. KSHV‐TK: thymidine kinase or tyrosine kinase? The EMBO Journal, 34(4):427-9 Jens T Van Praet, Erin Donovan, Inge Vanassche, Michael B Drennan, Fien Windels, Amélie Dendooven, Liesbeth Allais, Claude A Cuvelier, Fons van de Loo, Paula S Norris, Andrey A Kruglov, Sergei A Nedospasov, Sylvie Rabot, Raul Tito, Jeroen Raes, Valerie Gaboriau‐Routhiau, Nadine Cerf‐Bensussan, Tom Van de Wiele, Gérard Eberl, Carl F Ware, Dirk Elewaut. Commensal microbiota influence systemic autoimmune responses. The EMBO Journal, 34(4):466-74 EMBO Reports Hongbo R Luo, Subhanjan Mondal. Molecular control of PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 signaling in neutrophils. EMBO Rep., 16(2):149-163 Hiroaki Hirata, Mukund Gupta, Sri Ram Krishna Vedula, Chwee Teck Lim, Benoit Ladoux, Masahiro Sokabe. Actomyosin bundles serve as a tension sensor and a platform for ERK activation. EMBO Rep., 16(2):250-7 FASEB Journal Samantha Russell, Mark Duquette, Joyce Liu, Ronny Drapkin, Jack Lawler, and Jim Petrik. Combined therapy with thrombospondin-1 type I repeats (3TSR) and chemotherapy induces regression and significantly improves survival in a preclinical model of advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer. FASEB J., 29:576-588 Kseniya Maslova, Emmanouil Kyriakakis, Dennis Pfaff, Audrey Frachet, Agne Frismantiene, Lukas Bubendorf, Christian Ruiz, Tatjana Vlajnic, Paul Erne, Thérèse J. Resink, and Maria Philippova. EGFR and IGF-1R in regulation of prostate cancer cell phenotype and polarity: opposing functions and modulation by T-cadherin. FASEB J., 29:494-507 Noemi Rotllan, Aránzazu Chamorro-Jorganes, Elisa Araldi, Amarylis C. Wanschel, Binod Aryal, Juan F. Aranda, Leigh Goedeke, Alessandro G. Salerno, Cristina M. Ramírez, William C. Sessa, Yajaira Suárez, and Carlos Fernández-Hernando. Hematopoietic Akt2 deficiency attenuates the progression of atherosclerosis. FASEB J., 29:597-610 Sharon Israeli-Rosenberg, Chao Chen, Ruixia Li, Daniel N. Deussen, Ingrid R. Niesman, Hideshi Okada, Hemal H. Patel, David M. Roth, and Robert S. Ross. Caveolin modulates integrin function and mechanical activation in the cardiomyocyte. FASEB J., 29:374-384 Eugenia V. Gurevich, Richard T. Premont, and Raul R. Gainetdinov. G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinases: From Molecules to Diseases. FASEB J., 29:361-364 Genes and Development Selma Osmanagic-Myers, Thomas Dechat, and Roland Foisner. Lamins at the crossroads of mechanosignaling. Genes Dev., 29:225-237 Jia-Ray Yu, Yilin Tai, Ying Jin, Molly C. Hammell, J. Erby Wilkinson, Jae-Seok Roe, Christopher R. Vakoc, and Linda Van Aelst. TGF-β/Smad signaling through DOCK4 facilitates lung adenocarcinoma metastasis. Genes Dev., 29:250-261 Yimin Hua, Ying Hsiu Liu, Kentaro Sahashi, Frank Rigo, C. Frank Bennett, and Adrian R. Krainer. Motor neuron cell-nonautonomous rescue of spinal muscular atrophy phenotypes in mild and severe transgenic mouse models. Genes Dev., 29:288-297 Journal of Biological Chemistry Nicolas Delcourt, Celia Quevedo, Christelle Nonne, Pierre Fons, Donogh O'Brien, Denis Loyaux, Maria Diez, François Autelitano, Jean-Claude Guillemot, Pascual Ferrara, Arantza Muriana, Carlos Callol, Jean-Pascal Hérault, Jean-Marc Herbert, Gilles Favre, and Françoise Bono. Targeted Identification of Sialoglycoproteins in Hypoxic Endothelial Cells and Validation in Zebrafish Reveal Roles for Proteins in Angiogenesis. J. Biol. Chem., 290:3405-3417 Michael D. Dennis, Scot R. Kimball, Patrice E. Fort, and Leonard S. Jefferson. Regulated in Development and DNA Damage 1 Is Necessary for Hyperglycemia-induced Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression in the Retina of Diabetic Rodents. J. Biol. Chem., 290:3865-3874 Heather Menden, Scott Welak, Stephanie Cossette, Ramani Ramchandran, and Venkatesh Sampath. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated Angiopoietin-2-dependent Autocrine Angiogenesis Is Regulated by NADPH Oxidase 2 (Nox2) in Human Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells. J. Biol. Chem., 290:5449-5461 Yufeng Tian, Grzegorz Gawlak, Alok S. Shah, Katherine Higginbotham, Xinyong Tian, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Tetsu Akiyama, David B. Sacks, and Anna A. Birukova. Hepatocyte Growth Factor-induced Asef-IQGAP1 Complex Controls Cytoskeletal Remodeling and Endothelial Barrier. J. Biol. Chem., 290:4097-4109 Elena Tutunea-Fatan, Fabiana A. Caetano, Robert Gros, and Stephen S. G. Ferguson. GRK2 Targeted Knockdown Results in Spontaneous Hypertension, and Altered Vascular GPCR Signaling. J. Biol. Chem., 290:51415155 Hui Xiao, Hemant Kumar Bid, David Jou, Xiaojuan Wu, Wenying Yu, Chenglong Li, Peter J. Houghton, and Jiayuh Lin. A Novel Small Molecular STAT3 Inhibitor, LY5, Inhibits Cell Viability, Cell Migration, and Angiogenesis in Medulloblastoma Cells. J. Biol. Chem., 290:3418-3429 Kiyonari Matsuo, Yoshiki Akakabe, Youhei Kitamura, Yoshiaki Shimoda, Kazunori Ono, Tomomi Ueyama, Satoaki Matoba, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kinta Hatakeyama, Yujiro Asada, Noriaki Emoto, and Koji Ikeda. Loss of Apoptosis Regulator through Modulating IAP Expression (ARIA) Protects Blood Vessels from Atherosclerosis. J. Biol. Chem., 290:3784-3792 Wei Zhang, Xuexin Zhang, José C. González-Cobos, Judith A. Stolwijk, Khalid Matrougui, and Mohamed Trebak. Leukotriene-C4 Synthase, a Critical Enzyme in the Activation of Store-independent Orai1/Orai3 Channels, Is Required for Neointimal Hyperplasia. J. Biol. Chem., 290:5015-5027 Stacy Gelhaus Wendell, Franca Golin-Bisello, Sally Wenzel, Robert W. Sobol, Fernando Holguin, and Bruce A. Freeman. 15-Hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase Generation of Electrophilic Lipid Signaling Mediators from Hydroxy Ω-3 Fatty Acids. J. Biol. Chem., 290:5868-5880 Paula B. Deming, Shirley L. Campbell, Jamie B. Stone, Robert L. Rivard, Alison L. Mercier, and Alan K. Howe. Anchoring of Protein Kinase A by ERM (Ezrin-Radixin-Moesin) Proteins Is Required for Proper Netrin Signaling through DCC (Deleted in Colorectal Cancer). J. Biol. Chem., 290:5783-5796 Anthony G. Jay, Alexander N. Chen, Miguel A. Paz, Justin P. Hung, and James A. Hamilton. CD36 Binds Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) in a Mechanism Dependent upon Fatty Acid Binding. J. Biol. Chem., 290:45904603 Journal of Cell Biology No vascular biology related publications this month Journal of Cell Science Gong Feng, David P. Sullivan, Fei Han and William A. Muller. Segregation of VE-cadherin from the LBRC depends on the ectodomain sequence required for homophilic adhesion. J Cell Sci., 128:576-588 Journal of Clinical Investigation Chris J. Weston, Emma L. Shepherd, Lee C. Claridge, Pia Rantakari, Stuart M. Curbishley, Jeremy W. Tomlinson, Stefan G. Hubscher, Gary M. Reynolds, Kristiina Aalto, Quentin M. Anstee, Sirpa Jalkanen, Marko Salmi, David J. Smith, Christopher P. Day and David H. Adams. Vascular adhesion protein-1 promotes liver inflammation and drives hepatic fibrosis. J Clin Invest., 125(2):501–520 Haixia Gong, Jalees Rehman, Haiyang Tang, Kishore Wary, Manish Mittal, Pallavi Chatturvedi, Youyang Zhao, Yulia A. Komorova, Stephen M. Vogel and Asrar B. Malik. HIF2α signaling inhibits adherens junctional disruption in acute lung injury. J Clin Invest., 125(2):652–664 Journal of Experimental Medicine No vascular biology related publications this month Journal of Immunology Stavros Rafail, Ioannis Kourtzelis, Periklis G. Foukas, Maciej M. Markiewski, Robert A. DeAngelis, Mara Guariento, Daniel Ricklin, Elizabeth A. Grice, and John D. Lambris. Complement Deficiency Promotes Cutaneous Wound Healing in Mice. J Immunol., 194:1285-1291 Masaya Harada, Daisuke Kamimura, Yasunobu Arima, Hitoshi Kohsaka, Yuji Nakatsuji, Makoto Nishida, Toru Atsumi, Jie Meng, Hidenori Bando, Rajeev Singh, Lavannya Sabharwal, Jing-Jing Jiang, Noriko Kumai, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Saburo Sakoda, Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara, Hideki Ogura, Toshio Hirano, and Masaaki Murakami. Temporal Expression of Growth Factors Triggered by Epiregulin Regulates Inflammation Development. J Immunol., 194:1039-1046 Journal of Lipid Research Ilona Kareinen, Lídia Cedó, Reija Silvennoinen, Pirkka-Pekka Laurila, Matti Jauhiainen, Josep Julve, Francisco Blanco-Vaca, Joan Carles Escola-Gil, Petri T. Kovanen, and Miriam Lee-Rueckert. Enhanced vascular permeability facilitates entry of plasma HDL and promotes macrophage-reverse cholesterol transport from skin in mice. J. Lipid Res., 56(2):241-253 Tang EHC, Cai Y, Wong CK, Rocha VZ, Sukhova GK, Shimizu K, Ge X, Vanhoutte PM, Libby P, Xu A. Activation of prostaglandin E2-EP4 signaling reduces chemokine production in adipose tissue. J Lipid Res., 56(2): 358-368 Xu Y, Ashline D, Liu L, Tassa C, Shaw SY, Ravid K, Layne MD, Reinhold V, Robbins PW. The glycosylationdependent interaction of perlecan core protein with LDL: implications for atherosclerosis. J Lipid Res., 56(2):266-76 Molecular and Cellular Biology No vascular biology related publications this month Molecular Biology of the Cell Timothy J Gauvin, Lorna E Young, Henry N Higgs. The formin FMNL3 assembles plasma membrane protrusions that participate in cell-cell adhesion. Mol Biol Cell., 26(3):467–477 Xinyong Tian, Yufeng Tian, Grzegorz Gawlak, Fanyong Meng, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Tetsu Akiyama, Anna A Birukova. Asef controls vascular endothelial permeability and barrier recovery in the lung. Mol Biol Cell., 26(4):636–650 Paymon M Azizi, Roman E Zyla, Sha Guan, Changsen Wang, Jun Liu, Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, Bryan Heit, Amira Klip, Warren L Lee. Clathrin-dependent entry and vesicle-mediated exocytosis define insulin transcytosis across microvascular endothelial cells. Mol Biol Cell., 26(4):740–750 Nature No vascular biology related publications this month Nature Cell Biology Shahin Rafii, Zhongwei Cao, Raphael Lis, Ilias I Siempos, Deebly Chavez, Koji Shido, Sina Y Rabbany, Bi-Sen Ding. Platelet-derived SDF-1 primes the pulmonary capillary vascular niche to drive lung alveolar regeneration. Nat Cell Biol., 17(2):123–136 Hunter Elliott, Robert S Fischer, Kenneth A Myers, Ravi A Desai, Lin Gao, Christopher S Chen, Robert S Adelstein, Clare M Waterman, Gaudenz Danuser. Myosin II controls cellular branching morphogenesis and migration in three dimensions by minimizing cell-surface curvature. Nat Cell Biol., 17(2):137–147 Miranda Y Fong, Weiying Zhou, Liang Liu, Aileen Y Alontaga, Manasa Chandra, Jonathan Ashby, Amy Chow, Sean Timothy Francis O'Connor, Shasha Li, Andrew R Chin, George Somlo, Melanie Palomares, Zhuo Li, Jacob R Tremblay, Akihiro Tsuyada, Guoqiang Sun, Michael A Reid, Xiwei Wu, Piotr Swiderski, Xiubao Ren, Yanhong Shi, Mei Kong, Wenwan Zhong, Yuan Chen, Shizhen Emily Wang. Breast-cancer-secreted miR-122 reprograms glucose metabolism in premetastatic niche to promote metastasis. Nat Cell Biol., 17(2):183–194 Nature Genetics No vascular biology related publications this month Nature Medicine Mortimer Korf-Klingebiel, Marc R Reboll, Stefanie Klede, Torben Brod, Andreas Pich, Felix Polten, L Christian Napp, Johann Bauersachs, Arnold Ganser, Eva Brinkmann, Ines Reimann, Tibor Kempf, Hans W Niessen, Jacques Mizrahi, Hans-Joachim Schönfeld, Antonio Iglesias, Maria Bobadilla, Yong Wang, Kai C Wollert. Myeloid-derived growth factor (C19orf10) mediates cardiac repair following myocardial infarction. Nat Med., 21(2):140–149 PNAS Rebecca S. Heist, Dan G. Duda, Dushyant V. Sahani, Marek Ancukiewicz, Panos Fidias, Lecia V. Sequist, Jennifer S. Temel, Alice T. Shaw, Nathan A. Pennell, Joel W. Neal, Leena Gandhi, Thomas J. Lynch, Jeffrey A. Engelman, and Rakesh K. Jain. Improved tumor vascularization after anti-VEGF therapy with carboplatin and nabpaclitaxel associates with survival in lung cancer. PNAS, 112(5):1547-1552 Meenal Datta, Laura E. Via, Walid S. Kamoun, Chong Liu, Wei Chen, Giorgio Seano, Danielle M. Weiner, Daniel Schimel, Kathleen England, John D. Martin, Xing Gao, Lei Xu, Clifton E. Barry III, and Rakesh K. Jain. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment normalizes tuberculosis granuloma vasculature and improves small molecule delivery. PNAS, 112(6): 1827-1832 Fabrice Dabertrand, Christel Krøigaard, Adrian D. Bonev, Emmanuel Cognat, Thomas Dalsgaard, Valérie DomengaDenier, David C. Hill-Eubanks, Joseph E. Brayden, Anne Joutel, and Mark T. Nelson. Potassium channelopathylike defect underlies early-stage cerebrovascular dysfunction in a genetic model of small vessel disease. PNAS, 112(7):E796-E805 Byung Hee Han, Meng-liang Zhou, Andrew W. Johnson, Itender Singh, Fan Liao, Ananth K. Vellimana, James W. Nelson, Eric Milner, John R. Cirrito, Jacob Basak, Min Yoo, Hans H. Dietrich, David M. Holtzman, and Gregory Joseph Zipfel . Contribution of reactive oxygen species to cerebral amyloid angiopathy, vasomotor dysfunction, and microhemorrhage in aged Tg2576 mice. PNAS, 112(8):E881-E890 Science No vascular biology related publications this month Member Submissions Tomanek RJ, Yu Q, Lo CW. Coronary anomalies in mice with congenital heart defects. Anat Rec (Hoboken)., 298(2):408-17 Kuo YC, Chang TH, Hsu WT, Zhou J, Lee HH, Hui-Chun Ho J, Chien S, Kuang-Sheng O. Oscillatory shear stress mediates directional reorganization of actin cytoskeleton and alters differentiation propensity of mesenchymal stem cells. Stem Cells, 33(2):429-42 Han Y, Slivano OJ, Christie CK, Cheng AW, Miano JM. CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of a Single Regulatory Element Nearly Abolishes Target Gene Expression in Mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol., 35(2):312-5 Alice Plein, Alessandro Fantin, Christiana Ruhrberg. Neural Crest Cells in Cardiovascular Development. Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 111:183-200 Daniela S. Ardelean and Michelle Letarte. Anti-angiogenic therapeutic strategies in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Front. Genet., doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00035 Shapero K, Wylie-Sears J, Levine RA, Mayer JE Jr, Bischoff J. Reciprocal interactions between mitral valve endothelial and interstitial cells reduce endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition and myofibroblastic activation. J Mol Cell Cardiol., 80C:175-185 Huang L, Nakayama H, Klagsbrun M, Mulliken JB, Bischoff J. Glucose transporter 1-positive endothelial cells in infantile hemangioma exhibit features of facultative stem cells. Stem Cells, 33(1):133-45 Johnson FK, Peyton KJ, Liu XM, Azam MA, Shebib AR, Johnson RA, Durante W. Arginase promotes endothelial dysfunction and hypertension in obese rats. Obesity, 23:383-390 Krawiec JT, Weinbaum JS, St Croix CM, Phillippi JA, Watkins SC, Rubin JP, Vorp DA. A Cautionary Tale for Autologous Vascular Tissue Engineering: Impact of Human Demographics on the Ability of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Recruit and Differentiate Into Smooth Muscle Cells. Tissue Eng Part A. 21(34):426-37 Ghonim MA, Pyakurel K, Ju J, Rodriguez PC, Lammi MR, Davis C, Abughazleh MQ, Mansy MS, Naura AS, Boulares AH. DNA-dependent protein kinase inhibition blocks asthma in mice and modulates human endothelial and CD4+ T-cell function without causing severe combined immunodeficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol., 135(2):425-40 Wang Q, Liu Z, Ren J, Morgan S, Assa C, Liu B. Receptor-Interacting Protein Kinase 3 Contributes to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms via Smooth Muscle Cell Necrosis and Inflammation. Circ Res., 116(4):600-11