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The imprinted Igf2-Igf2r axis is critical for matching placental microvasculature expansion to fetal growth

bioRxiv, ISSN: 2692-8205
2019
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  • Mentions
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In all eutherian mammals, growth of the fetus is dependent upon a functional placenta, but whether and how the latter adapts to putative fetal signals is currently unknown. Here we demonstrate, through fetal, endothelial, hematopoietic and trophoblast-specific genetic manipulations in the mouse, that endothelial and fetus-derived IGF2 is required for the continuous expansion of the fetoplacental microvasculature in late pregnancy. The effects of IGF2 on placental microvasculature expansion are mediated, in part, through IGF2R and angiopoietin-Tie2/TEK signalling. Additionally, IGF2 exerts IGF2R-ERK1/2-dependent pro-proliferative and angiogenic effects on primary fetoplacental endothelial cells ex vivo. Endothelial and fetus-derived IGF2 also plays an important role in trophoblast morphogenesis, acting through Gcm1 and Synb. Thus, our study reveals a direct role for the imprinted Igf2-Igf2r axis on matching placental development to fetal growth and establishes the principle that hormone-like signals from the fetus play important roles in controlling placental microvasculature and trophoblast morphogenesis.

Bibliographic Details

Ionel Sandovici; Aikaterini Georgopoulou; Antonia Hufnagel; Samira N. Schiefer; Katharina Hoelle; Miguel Constância; Brian Y.H. Lam; Chelsea Gaudreau; Giles S.H. Yeo; Keith Burling; Vicente Pérez-García; Jorge López-Tello; Fátima Santos; Abigail L. Fowden; Graham J. Burton; Amanda N. Sferruzzi-Perri; Moritz Reiterer; Cristina M. Branco

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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