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: SMAD1 (D59D7) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#6944), phospho-SMAD1/5/9 (D5B10) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#13820), SMAD2 (D43B4) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#5339), phospho-SMAD2 (E8F3R) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#18338), SMAD3 (C67H9) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#9523), phospho-SMAD3 (C25A9) rabbit monoclonal antibody (# 9520), SMAD4 (D3R4N) rabbit monoclonal antibody (#46535), horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-linked anti-mouse IgG (#7076), and anti-rabbit IgG (#7074) were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA); the mouse monoclonal antibody HLA-G (#11–499-C100) was purchased from EXBIO (Vestec, Czech Republic); CK7-specific rabbit polyclonal antibody (#17513-1-AP), BMP6 rabbit polyclonal antibody (#55421-1-AP), SERPINE2 rabbit polyclonal antibody (#11303-1-AP), and α-Tubulin mouse monoclonal antibody (#66031-1-Ig) were purchased from Proteintech (Wuhan, China); ID1 mouse monoclonal antibody (#sc-133104) was obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA); CD34 rabbit monoclonal antibody (#A19015) and α-SMA rabbit monoclonal antibody (#A2235) were obtained from ABclonal (Wuhan, China); Goat anti-Rabbit IgG secondary antibody, Alexa Fluor 594 (#A-11012) and goat anti-Mouse IgG secondary antibody, Alexa Fluor 488 (#A-11011) were purchased from Thermo Fisher (NY, USA).
Techniques: Expressing, Immunohistochemistry, RNA Sequencing, Staining, Single-cell Analysis, Control, Binding Assay