Mouse Aortic Ring Assay: A New Approach of the Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis (2024)

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Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Genetically modified mice Preparation of the three-dimensional aortic ring cultures Quantification of angiogenesis Fluorescent staining of endothelial cells Adenovirus-mediated ATF cDNA transfer Statistical analysis Results and Discussion Adaption of rat aortic ring assay to the mice Relevance of the mouse aortic ring assay to study the impact of the gene product deficiency on angiogenesis Adenovirus-mediated transfer of cDNA into mouse aortic rings Acknowledgments Appendix Protocols References References

Abstract

Angiogenesis, a key step in many physiological and pathological processes, involves proteolysis of the extracellular matrix. To study the role of two enzymatic families, serine-proteases and matrix metalloproteases in angiogenesis, we have adapted to the mouse, the aortic ring assay initially developed in the rat. The use of deficient mice allowed us to demonstrate that PAI-1 is essential for angiogenesis while the absence of an MMP, MMP-11, did not affect vessel sprouting. We report here that this model is attractive to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis, to identify, characterise or screen "pro- or anti-angiogenic agents that could be used for the treatment of angiogenesis-dependent diseases. Approaches include using recombinant proteins, synthetic molecules and adenovirus-mediated gene transfer.

Keywords: Angiogenesis factor, endothelium, mouse

Introduction

Angiogenesis i.e. the sprouting of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels is an essential feature of tissue remodeling associated with at least wound healing, solid tumour development, proliferative retinopathies and rheumatoid arthritis. Extensive interest has been generated to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the angiogenic process. Different in vivo and in vitro assays have been used so far in order to understand the development of the vascular system, and to screen angiogenic activators and inhibitors. Commonly used in vivo models of angiogenesis include the chorioallantoïc membrane of the chick embryo (CAM assay), the rabbit cornea, the hamster cheek pouch (1) and the Matrigel implant assay (2,3). Despite the relevance of these in vivo assays, systemic inflammatory reactions can lead to interferences that hamper their use for the study of angiogenesis regulation. In vitro cultures of isolated endothelial cells are also useful to study the formation of microvessels but mimic only partially the vascular wall and paracrine interactions between endothelial cells and perivascular cells such as pericytes, smooth muscle cells or fibroblasts which are obviously not taken into account in these models. Nicosia and Ottinetti (4) demonstrated that rat aorta rings reproducibly generate microvessel outgrowths in fibrin or collagen gels, and provide a sensitive assay for the study of angiogenic agonists and antagonists in a chemically defined environment. This system bridges thus the gap between in vitro and in vivo models.

Recently, the generation of transgenic mice allowed to study the impact of gain or loss of function for targeted molecules in various physiological and pathological situations. Genetically altered mice have proven to be valuable tools to study numerous diseases (5,6) and have revealed unanticipated roles for previously characterized proteins involved in angiogenesis (7,8). Paradoxically, αvβ3 and αvβ5 integrins (7) have been proposed as anti-angiogenic agents, whereas the plasminogen activator inhibitor PAI-1 has been described as a pro-angiogenic molecule (8,9). These recent findings emphasize the interest of in vitro angiogenic models to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis. In this context, we have now adapted to the transgenic mouse, the aortic ring assay initially developed in the rat (4). We focused our interest on two enzymatic systems (matrix metalloproteinases or MMPs, and serine-proteases) which play a central role during angiogenesis. These two proteolytic systems control angiogenesis in a cooperate manner by remodeling the extracellular matrix, thereby facilitating endothelial cell migration as well as by releasing matrix-bound angiogenic factors, cleaving cell surface molecules and generating angiogenic factors (10,11).

While the inhibitor PAI-1 appears as an essential element for angiogenesis (8,9,12,13), deficiency in MMP-11 does not affect vessel outgrowth. We demonstrate here the possibility to transduce anti-angiogenic gene into aortic rings by adenovirus.

Materials and Methods

Genetically modified mice

Homozygous PAI-1-/- deficient mice and their corresponding wild type (WT) with a mixed genetic background of 87.5% C57BL6 and 12.5% 129 SV/SL strain were generated as described previously (8). MMP-11-/- and their corresponding wild type mice with the same genetic background (129 SV/BL6 50/50) were kindly provided by M-C Rio (IGBMC, Strasbourg, France) (14). Mice between 8 and 12 weeks of age of both sexes were used for experiments.

Preparation of the three-dimensional aortic ring cultures

Angiogenesis was studied by culturing rings of mouse aorta in three-dimensional collagen gels with some modifications of the method originally reported for the rat aorta (4). Thoracic aortas were removed from mice sacrificed by cervical dislocation and immediately transferred to a culture dish containing ice-cold serum-free Minimum Essential Medium (MEM, Life Technologies Ltd., Paisley, Scotland). The peri-aortic fibroadipose tissue was carefully removed with fine microdissecting forceps and iridectomy scissors paying special attention not to damage the aortic wall. One millimeter long aortic rings (approximately 15 per aorta) were sectioned and extensively rinsed in 5 consecutive washes of MEM. Ring-shaped explants of mouse aorta were then embedded in a rat tail interstitial collagen gel (1.5 mg/ml) (15) prepared by mixing 7.5 volumes of 2 mg/ml collagen (Collagen R, Serva, Heidelberg, Germany), 1 volume of 10 x MEM, 1.5 volume of NaHCO3 (15.6mg/ml) and approximately 0.1 volume of 1M NaOH to adjust the pH to 7.4. The collagen gels containing the aortic rings were polymerized in cylindrical agarose wells prepared as previously described (4) and kept in triplicate at 37°C in 60 mm diameter Petri dishes (bacteriological polystyrene, Falcon, Becton Dickinson, Lincoln Park, New Jersey). Each dish contained 6 ml of MCDB131 (Life technologies Ltd., Paisley, Scotland) supplemented with 25 mM NaHCO3, 2.5% mouse serum, 1% glutamine, 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin. The cultures were kept at 37°C in a humidified environment for a week and examined every second day with an Olympus microscope at appropriate magnification.

Quantification of angiogenesis

To perform image analysis, all images must be taken under the same observation condition (light, contrast, magnification). In this case, processing parameters are fixed once for ever, and image processing became completely automatic.

Image analysis was performed on a Sun SPARC30 workstation with the software Visilog 5.0 from Noesis. We used an improved computer-assisted image analysis (16) which allows automatic measurements of the geometrical and morphological parameters. After generation of binary image, the following automatic measurements were performed: the number of microvessels (Nv); the maximal microvessel length (Lmax), and the total number of branching in microvessels (Nb).

Fluorescent staining of endothelial cells

To stain endothelial cells prior to sectioning, rinsing and collagen embedding, aortas were incubated for 4 hours at 37°C in a solution of 10 μg/ml fluorescent acetylated low density lipoprotein (Dil-Ac-LDL, acetylated low density lipoprotein labeled with 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3, 3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate, Biomedical Technologies Inc., Stoughton, Massachussets), which is selectively taken up by endothelial cells without affecting their growth rate (17). Cultures were then examined by fluorescent microscopy using rhodamine excitation and emission filters.

Adenovirus-mediated ATF cDNA transfer

E1E3-deleted adenoviruses directing from the cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate early promoter expressing the murine Amino-Terminal Fragment of urokinase (ATF) (AdATF) or Escherichia coli β-galactosidase (AdCMVβgal = AdLacZ) were propagated as described previously (18). Thoracic aortas were removed from C57BL/6 mice sacrificed by cervical dislocation and immediately transferred to a culture dish with cold serum-free MEM. The periaortic fibroadipose tissue was carefully removed and each aorta was cut in 2 equal pieces. Pieces of aortas were immediately exposed or not to recombinant adenoviruses at 5 x 109 plaque-forming units in 0.5ml DMEM in 24-well plate at 37°C in 5% CO2 (2 pieces of aortas from 2 different mice/condition). After one day of infection, aorta were cut in 1 mm-long explants that were extensively rinsed with DMEM, embedded in collagen gel, and cultured with 2.5% of autologous serum. After 6 days of culture, explants were examined by microscopy and image analysis was performed. To evaluate the efficiency of transduction, WT aortic explants were exposed to AdLacZ, cultured in WT serum for 6 days and fixed for 20 min with cold paraformaldehyde 1% after removing the agarose around the collagen gel. Aorta rings embedded in collagen were rinsed 3 times quickly with PBS, then rinsed 3 times for 15 min with washing solution (PBS containing 2mM MgCl2, 0.02% Igepal CA-630 and 0.01% Na deoxycholate) and finally stained overnight at 37°C in the dark in washing solution containing 5mM K3Fe(CN)6, 5mM K4Fe(CN)6 .3H20 and 1mg/ml 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (X-gal; Sigma, St. Louis, MI).

Statistical analysis

Experiments including four explants per condition were repeated at least twice. Student’s t test was used to evaluate whether differences among groups were significant. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05.

Results and Discussion

Adaption of rat aortic ring assay to the mice

In order to exploit the recent development of transgenic mice, we have adapted to the mouse the rat aortic ring assay in collagen gel. In sharp contrast to the rat system, addition of 2.5% mouse serum to MCDB 131 medium was an absolute requisite for microvessel outgrowth from mouse aortic rings. Indeed, serum-free medium failed to support angiogenesis from mouse explants. In the presence of serum, only isolated and dispersed fibroblast-like cells migrated into the gel within the first 4 days of culture (lag phase). Subsequently, microvessel outgrowth arose from the edges of parental vessels (growth phase). The endothelial nature of spreading cells was demonstrated by incubating the aortic ring with Dil-Ac-LDL, which is taken up by endothelial cells.

We have developed a computer-assisted method which allows the measurement of the number of vessels and branchings, as well as their maximal length (16). The initially linear sprouts of endothelial cells progressively branched, anastomosed and formed a microvascular network reaching a maximal complexity at day 6 (Fig. 1A).

Fig. 1.

Mouse Aortic Ring Assay: A New Approach of the Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis (1)

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In addition to this difference of microvessel sprouting kinetic observed between the two species systems, one should note that the highest number of microvessels was observed with rat aortic rings as compared to the mouse ones (52 ± 3 versus 27 ± 2, respectively) (Fig. 1A and B).

The advantage of the rat aortic system is that cultures can be maintained in the absence of serum, in a more chemically defined environment allowing for the evaluation of pro- or anti-angiogenic compounds (4,16,19). Our attempts to culture mouse aortic rings in defined medium supplemented with EGF, bFGF (EGM-2 BulletKit, Biowhittaker, Belgium) were unsuccessful. The main interest of the mouse system is to exploit the recent generation of transgenic mice and to study the consequence of deficiencies, mutations and conditional expression of gene products.

Relevance of the mouse aortic ring assay to study the impact of the gene product deficiency on angiogenesis

Endothelial cell migration requires extracellular matrix proteolysis, which involves at least two matrix-degrading proteases, the plasminogen activator (PA)/plasmin system and the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family acting in a concerted manner (10). We recently demonstrated the key role played by the plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) during tumour invasion and angiogenesis (8,9). Indeed, the lack of PAI-1 in host mice prevented the local invasion and vascularization of tumours induced by malignant keratinocytes transplantation. In order to evaluate the relevance of the mouse aortic ring assay to study the functions of PAI-1, aortic explants resected from PAI-1-deficient mice or from their corresponding wild type (WT) were embedded in collagen gels in the presence of autologous serum. In contrast to the WT aortic rings from which microvessels spread out (Fig. 2A), no angiogenic response was observed from PAI-1 -/- aortic explants (Fig. 2B). The addition of recombinant PAI-1 used at 10 ng/ml corresponding to physiological concentration in the plasma, led to a partial restoration of neovessel formation from PAI-1 -/- rings (Fig. 2C) (12).

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Mouse Aortic Ring Assay: A New Approach of the Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis (2)

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These data emphasize the central role of PAI-1 played during angiogenesis and confirm the data previously obtained in vivo (8,12,13). We next extended our study to MMP-11, which has been reported to influence the early steps of tumour progression. Indeed, MMP-11 expression promoted the in vivo tumour take (20) and its deficiency was associated with a reduction in tumour development (14). Several MMPs have been reported to play an important role in the early events of cancer progression such as angiogenesis (11,21,22).

However, so far no data suggest the direct implication of MMP-11 during tumoral angiogenesis. In accordance to this, we clearly demonstrate here that MMP-11-deficiency failed to affect angiogenesis in the aortic ring assay (Fig. 2D,E).

Adenovirus-mediated transfer of cDNA into mouse aortic rings

We next addressed the possibility to deliver and screen pro- or anti-angiogenic agents by using adenoviral vectors, which induce a prolonged gene expression. To attest the adenoviral transduction efficiency, mice aorta were incubated, before embedding into the collagen gel, with recombinant adenoviruses bearing the lacZ gene coding for beta-galactosidase (Ad.LacZ). Both endothelial cells and fibroblast-like cells expressed the transgene throughout the study. Interestingly, gene transduction did not affect the angiogenic response (Fig. 3) .

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A large body of evidence validates uPA receptor (uPAR) as a target for cancer therapy. Disruption of the interaction of uPA with uPAR by derivatives of uPA has been shown to reduce tumour growth (23). Li et al. have used an adenoviral vector to deliver and express in vivo the murine uPAR-binding domain of uPA (uPA amino terminal fragment or ATF) (18). Intratumoral injection of these adenovirus into pre-established human or murine tumours arrested tumour growth and vascularization. Accordingly, incubation of aorta with recombinant adenovirus expressing murine ATF (AdATF) drastically inhibited the microvessel outgrowth (Fig. 3) . These data confirm the interest of inhibiting uPA-uPAR interaction with ATF to counteract angiogenesis, and demonstrate that gene transfer in the aortic ring assay allows to test the possible therapeutic use of gene products for gene therapy.

Altogether our study demonstrates the adequacy of the mouse aortic ring assay to identify, characterise and screen pro- or anti-angiogenic agents which could be used for the treatment of angiogenesis-dependant diseases.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Fabrice Olivier for his technical assistance. This work was supported by grants from Communauté Française de Belgique (Actions de Recherches Concertées), the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, Belgium), the Fédération Belge Contre le Cancer, the Fonds spéciaux de la Recherche (University of Liège), the Centre Anticancéreux près l'Université de Liège, the FB-Assurances and the D.G.T.R.E. from the "Région Wallonne" (Belgium).

K.B. is a recipient of a grant from FNRS-Télévie. A.N. is a Research Senior Associate, L.D. and C.D. are Postdoctoral Research Associates, all from FNRS.

Appendix

Protocols

A. Preparation of agarose wells.

  1. Solubilize 1.5g Agarose VII (Sigma, Belgium), in 100 ml MilliQ water and autoclave it (50 min., 1 bar).

  2. Run 30 ml of agarose in each sterile 10 mm tissue culture Petri dish (Falcon).

  3. After agarose polymerization, punch rings with 17 mm puncher first and then a 10 mm one.

  4. Remove the center of the rings and discard it.

  5. Grip the ring at its edge with a bowed spatula and lift it up. Place it upside down in a 60 mm Petri dish (bacterial cultures, Nunc).

  6. Place 3 rings per dish.

B. Serum preparation.

  1. Sacrifice the mouse by cervical dislocation.

  2. Make a vertical midline section of the thorax.

  3. Use a pair of scissors to open the heart.

  4. Collect as much blood as possible with a sterile Pasteur pipette.

  5. Transfer blood to a sterile tube with Clot activator.

  6. Leave sample at room temperature for 10-15 min.

  7. Centrifuge at 3000 RPM, 5 min. at room temperature.

  8. Set sample on ice until use.

C. Removal of the aorta from the mouse.

  1. Grab the aorta with the forceps and dissect aorta free from the connective tissue with scissors.

  2. Cut the aorta at the level of arcus aortica.

  3. Transfer aorta to sterile serum-free medium {DMEM (Gibco BRL) with 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin (Gibco BRL)}.

D. Removal of periaortic fibroadipose tissue from the aorta.

  1. Place aorta on a sterile cork plate covered with aluminum foil and fix it with sterile needles.

  2. Remove carefully periaortic fibroadipose tissue.

  3. Avoid aorta to dry out by dripping serum-free medium over it.

  4. When aorta is clean, place it in another cell culture plate lid with serum-free medium.

  5. Cut the aorta with the blade of a scalpel in 1 mm-long rings (about 15 rings/aorta).

  6. Transfer the rings to ice cold serum-free medium in a 50 ml tube (Falcon).

  7. At this step explants can be stored for until two hours.

E. Preparation of collagen type I (at 4°C, in a sterile hood).

  1. Place on ice and in a sterile hood an autoclaved beaker with a magnet on it.

  2. Prepare collagen solution by mixing 7.5 volumes of 2 mg/ml collagen (Collagen R, Serva, Heidelberg, Germany), 1 volume of 10 x MEM (as color indicator), 1.5 volumes of NaHCO3 (15.6mg/ml) and approximately 0.1 volume of 1M NaOH to adjust the pH to 7.4.

F. Embedding of aortic rings in collagen type I.

  1. Take the 60 mm Petridish containing the 3 agarose rings (step A).

  2. Add 200 µl of Collagen type I (step E) and let it polymerize at 37°C for 10 min.

  3. Add 1 explant per agarose ring on top of the collagen I (on side) and then pour 200 µl of the collagen type I on top of it.

  4. Let it polymerise for 10 min at 37°C.

  5. In each petri dish containing 3 agarose wells add 5.850 ml of MCDB131 (Life technologies Ltd., Paisley, Scotland) supplemented with 25 mM NaHCO3, 2.5% mouse serum (150µl) (step B), 1% glutamine, and P/S.

  6. Incubate at 37°C, 5% CO2 for 6 days.

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