Journal: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences: CMLS
Article Title: BMP6 as a therapeutic target for preeclampsia: enhancing trophoblast invasion and vascular mimicry
doi: 10.1007/s00018-025-06040-w
Figure Lengend Snippet: BMP6 facilitates human trophoblast invasion and vascular mimicry and increases the expression of ID1 , which is associated with PE. A , BMP6 is expressed at the maternal-fetal interface. Immunohistochemistry localization of BMP6 in first-trimester villi, first-trimester decidua, and third-trimester placenta. Scale bar, 100 μm. B-C , BMP6 facilitates human trophoblast invasion and vascular mimicry. B , HTR8/SVneo cells were treated with or without BMP6, followed by analysis of cell invasion. Scale bar, 100 μm. C , HTR8/SVneo cells were treated with or without BMP6, followed by analysis of endothelial-like tube formation. Scale bar, 100 μm. D - I , Bulk RNA-Seq analysis reveals that BMP6 treatment significantly upregulates ID1 , ID2 , and ID3 in HTR8/SVneo cells. D - F , Heatmap ( D ), volcano plots ( E ), and waterfall plots ( F ) obtained from RNA-Seq analysis of HTR8/SVneo cells with or without BMP6 treatment for 6 h. G - I , Heatmap ( G ), volcano plots ( H ), and waterfall plots ( I ) obtained from RNA-Seq analysis of HTR8/SVneo cells treated with or without BMP6 for 24 h. J , Purity of the primary human EVTs. Primary human EVTs were stained by CK7 (left panel) and HLA-G (right panel). Scale bar, 50 μm. K-P , single-cell analysis of the placenta shows ID1 is predominantly expressed in invasive EVTs. K and M , Analysis of previously published single-cell transcriptomes of human placentas collected during early pregnancy (6–12 gestational weeks, n = 5). L , N - P , Analysis of previously published single-cell transcriptomes of placentas collected during late pregnancy: three control placentas at 38 gestational weeks and three preeclamptic placentas at 34‒35 gestational weeks. K and L , UMAP visualization of all captured cell types in the placenta during early pregnancy ( K ) and late pregnancy ( L ), respectively. M and N , UMAP plot displaying the ID1 expression levels in all cell types in the early placenta ( M ) and the late placenta ( N ), respectively. O , UMAP visualization of all captured cell types in control women and PE patients. P , Violin plot displaying the expression level of ID1 in the EVT cell type. The quantitative results are expressed as the means ± SEMs of at least three independent experiments. One-way ANOVA was used for analyses in B and C , and Student’s t-test was used for comparisons between two groups in P . Groups without common letters are significantly different from each other ( P < 0.05)BMP6, bone morphogenetic protein 6; GE, glandular epithelium; SC, stromal cell; CK7, cytokeratin-7; HLA-G, human leukocyte antigen G; UMAP, uniform manifold approximation and projection; EVT, extravillous cytotrophoblast; SCT, syncytiotrophoblast; VCT, villous cytotrophoblast; ID1, inhibitor of DNA-binding 1; PE, preeclampsia
Article Snippet: Rat plasma was measured with a sFlt-1 ELISA kit (Proteintech, KE10069), a BMP6 ELISA Kit (Novus Biologicals, NBP2-69999, Centennial, CO, USA), and a PlGF ELISA kit (CUSABIO, CSB-E07400r, Wuhan, China).
Techniques: Expressing, Immunohistochemistry, RNA Sequencing, Staining, Single-cell Analysis, Control, Binding Assay