Abstract
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) breakdown, a characteristic feature of ischemic stroke, contributes to poor patient outcomes. Brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMVECs) are a key component of the BBB and dysfunction or death of these cells following cerebral ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury can disrupt the BBB, leading to leukocyte infiltration, brain edema and intracerebral hemorrhage. We previously demonstrated that mitochondrial ferritin (FtMt) can alleviate I/R-induced neuronal ferroptosis by inhibiting inflammation-regulated iron deposition. However, whether FtMt is involved in BBB disruption during cerebral I/R is still unknown. In the present study, we found that FtMt expression in BMVECs is upregulated after I/R and overexpression of FtMt attenuates I/R-induced BBB disruption. Mechanistically, we found that FtMt prevents tight junction loss and apoptosis by inhibiting iron dysregulation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation in I/R-treated BMVECs. Chelating excess iron with deferoxamine alleviates apoptosis in the brain endothelial cell line bEnd.3 under oxygen glucose deprivation followed by reoxygenation (OGD/R) insult. In summary, our data identify a previously unexplored effect for FtMt in the BBB and provide evidence that iron-mediated oxidative stress in BMVECs is an early cause of BMVECs damage and BBB breakdown in ischemic stroke.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
The Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China
Subject
Cell Biology,Clinical Biochemistry,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,Physiology
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