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ArticleCell transplantation2017

Imbalanced Production of Reactive Oxygen Species and Mitochondrial Antioxidant SOD2 in Fabry Disease-Specific Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Differentiated Vascular Endothelial Cells.

Wei-Lien Tseng, Shih-Jie Chou, Huai-Chih Chiang, Mong-Lien Wang, Chian-Shiu Chien, Kuan-Hsuan Chen, Hsin-Bang Leu, Chien-Ying Wang, Yuh-Lih Chang, Yung-Yang Liu and 5 more

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Article in Cell transplantation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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40 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Fabry Disease: A Focus on the Role of Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  2. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2025
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  4. Status and frontiers of Fabre disease.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025
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  13. Fasudil alleviates the vascular endothelial dysfunction and several phenotypes of Fabry disease.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  20. Inborn errors of metabolism: Lessons from iPSC models.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Wei-Lien Tseng
Shih-Jie Chou
Huai-Chih Chiang
Mong-Lien Wang
Chian-Shiu Chien
Kuan-Hsuan Chen
Hsin-Bang Leu
Chien-Ying Wang
Yuh-Lih Chang
Yung-Yang Liu
Yuh-Jyh Jong
Shinn-Zong Lin
Shih-Hwa Chiou
Shing-Jong Lin
Wen-Chung Yu
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWNational Yang Ming University Hospital · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWTaipei Veterans General Hospital · TWBuddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked inherited lysosomal storage disease caused by α-galactosidase A (GLA) deficiency. Progressive intracellular accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) is considered to be pathogenically responsible for the phenotype variability of FD that causes cardiovascular dysfunction; however, molecular mechanisms underlying the impairment of FD-associated cardiovascular tissues remain unclear. In this study, we reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) from peripheral blood cells of patients with FD (FD-iPSCs); subsequently differentiated them into vascular endothelial-like cells (FD-ECs) expressing CD31, VE-cadherin, and vWF; and investigated their ability to form vascular tube-like structures. FD-ECs recapitulated the FD pathophysiological phenotype exhibiting intracellular Gb3 accumulation under a transmission electron microscope. Moreover, compared with healthy control iPSC-derived endothelial cells (NC-ECs), reactive oxygen species (ROS) production considerably increased in FD-ECs. Microarray analysis was performed to explore the possible mechanism underlying Gb3 accumulation-induced ROS production in FD-ECs. Our results revealed that superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), a mitochondrial antioxidant, was significantly downregulated in FD-ECs. Compared with NC-ECs, AMPK activity was significantly enhanced in FD-ECs. Furthermore, to investigate the role of Gb3 in these effects, human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were treated with Gb3. After Gb3 treatment, we observed that SOD2 expression was suppressed and AMPK activity was enhanced in a dose-dependent manner. Collectively, our results indicate that excess accumulation of Gb3 suppressed SOD2 expression, increased ROS production, enhanced AMPK activation, and finally caused vascular endothelial dysfunction. Our findings suggest that dysregulated mitochondrial ROS may be a potential target for treating FD.

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AntioxidantsCells, CulturedEndothelial CellsFabry DiseaseHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsReactive Oxygen SpeciesSuperoxide DismutaseSuperoxide Dismutase 2AntioxidantsReactive Oxygen SpeciesSuperoxide DismutaseSuperoxide Dismutase 2

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PMID27938475
PMCPMC5657705
OpenAlexW2594135887

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