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ArticleJournal of innate immunity2022

Porphyromonas gingivalis Gingipains-Mediated Degradation of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Leads to Delayed Wound Healing Responses in Human Endothelial Cells.

Li-Ting Song, Hiroyuki Tada, Takashi Nishioka, Eiji Nemoto, Takahisa Imamura, Jan Potempa, Chang-Yi Li, Kenji Matsushita, Shunji Sugawara

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Article in Journal of innate immunity, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Li-Ting SongDivision of Oral Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
Hiroyuki TadaDivision of Oral Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
Takashi NishiokaDivision of Oral Diagnosis, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
Eiji NemotoDivision of Periodontology and Endodontology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
Takahisa ImamuraDepartment of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Human Life Science, Shokei University, Kumamoto, Japan.
Jan PotempaDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Chang-Yi LiHospital of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Kenji MatsushitaDepartment of Oral Disease Research, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Japan.
Shunji SugawaraDivision of Oral Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.
Tohoku University · JPNational Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology · JPShokei College · JPTianjin Medical University · CNUniversity of Louisville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), a serine protease inhibitor, is constitutively produced by endothelial cells and plays a vital role in maintaining vascular homeostasis. Chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease characterized by bleeding of periodontal tissues that support the tooth. In this study, we aimed to determine the role of PAI-1 produced by endothelial cells in response to infections caused by the primary periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis. We demonstrated that P. gingivalis infection resulted in significantly reduced PAI-1 levels in human endothelial cells. This reduction in PAI-1 levels could be attributed to the proteolysis of PAI-1 by P. gingivalis proteinases, especially lysine-specific gingipain-K (Kgp). We demonstrated the roles of these degradative enzymes in the endothelial cells using a Kgp-specific inhibitor and P. gingivalis gingipain-null mutants, in which the lack of the proteinases resulted in the absence of PAI-1 degradation. The degradation of PAI-1 by P. gingivalis induced a delayed wound healing response in endothelial cell layers via the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein. Our results collectively suggested that the proteolysis of PAI-1 in endothelial cells by gingipains of P. gingivalis might lead to the deregulation of endothelial homeostasis, thereby contributing to the permeabilization and dysfunction of the vascular endothelial barrier.

Indexed as

Endothelial CellsPorphyromonas gingivalisAdhesins, BacterialCysteine EndopeptidasesGingipain Cysteine EndopeptidasesHumansPlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1Wound HealingAdhesins, BacterialCysteine EndopeptidasesGingipain Cysteine EndopeptidasesPlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1Bacterial infectionEndothelial cellsPathogenesisPeriodontitisWound healing

Identifiers

PMID34823251
PMCPMC9275039
OpenAlexW3214812372

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