Genetic kininogen deficiency contributes to aortic aneurysm formation but not to atherosclerosis

Physiological Genomics
Elena KaschinaThomas Unger

Abstract

Brown Norway (BN) and BN Katholiek (BN/Ka) rat strains are both susceptible to develop lesions in the internal elastic lamina (IEL) of the aorta. BN/Ka rats are characterized by a single point mutation in the kininogen gene leading to deficiency in high- and low-molecular-weight kininogen. Recently, a suggestive quantitative trait locus for lesions in the IEL of the abdominal aorta was identified in an F2 intercross between Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) and BN rats, implicating kininogen as a positional candidate gene. Therefore, BN and BN/Ka rat strains represent ideal model organisms with which to study the contribution of kininogen to the genetic predisposition to IEL lesion formation and to characterize the early events underlying vascular remodeling. Here we present data demonstrating that genetic kininogen deficiency promotes the formation of aneurysms in the abdominal aorta but not the development of atherosclerosis upon 12-wk treatment with an atherogenic diet. Aneurysm formation was associated with an enhanced elastolysis, increased expression of MMP-2 and MMP-3, downregulation of TIMP-4, and with FasL- and caspase-3-mediated apoptosis. Kininogen-deficient animals also featured changes in plasma cytokines compatible with ap...Continue Reading

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