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Development ePress online publication date 17 Nov 2004
doi: 10.1242/dev.01529
Research article: Development and disease
Defective paracrine signalling by TGF
in yolk sac vasculature of endoglin mutant mice: a paradigm for hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
Rita L.C. Carvalho,
Leon Jonker,
Marie-José Goumans,
Jonas Larsson,
Peter Bouwman,
Stefan Karlsson,
Peter ten Dijke,
Helen M. Arthur,
and
Christine L. Mummery*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: christin{at}niob.knaw.nl)
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant disorder in humans that is characterised by multisystemic vascular dyplasia and recurrent haemorrhage. Germline mutations in one of two different genes, endoglin or ALK1 can cause HHT. Both are members of the transforming growth factor (TGF)
receptor family of proteins, and are expressed primarily on the surface of endothelial cells (ECs). Mice that lack endoglin or activin receptor like kinase (ALK) 1 die at mid-gestation as a result of defects in the yolk sac vasculature. Here, we have analyzed TGF
signalling in yolk sacs from endoglin knockout mice and from mice with endothelial-specific deletion of the TGF
type II receptor (T
RII) or ALK5. We show that TGF
/ALK5 signalling from endothelial cells to adjacent mesothelial cells is defective in these mice, as evidenced by reduced phosphorylation of Smad2. This results in the failure of vascular smooth muscle cells to differentiate and associate with endothelial cells so that blood vessels remain fragile and become dilated. Phosphorylation of Smad2 and differentiation of smooth muscle can be rescued by culture of the yolk sac with exogenous TGF
1. Our data show that disruption of TGF
signalling in vascular endothelial cells results in reduced availability of TGF
1 protein to promote recruitment and differentiation of smooth muscle cells, and provide a possible explanation for weak vessel walls associated with HHT.

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