April 2011
Volume 52, Issue 14
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2011
ROCK Inhibition Regulates the Cell Adhesion of Corneal Endothelial Cells
Kyoko Kumagai; Noriko Koizumi; Naoki Okumura; Kenta Yamazaki; Morio Ueno; Yuji Sakamoto; Nagahisa Yoshimura; Junji Hamuro; Shigeru Kinoshita
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Kyoko Kumagai
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto university, Kyoto, Japan
  • Noriko Koizumi
    Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
  • Naoki Okumura
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Kenta Yamazaki
    Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
  • Morio Ueno
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Yuji Sakamoto
    Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
  • Nagahisa Yoshimura
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto university, Kyoto, Japan
  • Junji Hamuro
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Shigeru Kinoshita
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  Kyoko Kumagai, None; Noriko Koizumi, None; Naoki Okumura, None; Kenta Yamazaki, None; Morio Ueno, None; Yuji Sakamoto, None; Nagahisa Yoshimura, None; Junji Hamuro, None; Shigeru Kinoshita, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  The Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-driven R & D (grant number: AS2111180G) from the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2011, Vol.52, 6465. doi:
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      Kyoko Kumagai, Noriko Koizumi, Naoki Okumura, Kenta Yamazaki, Morio Ueno, Yuji Sakamoto, Nagahisa Yoshimura, Junji Hamuro, Shigeru Kinoshita; ROCK Inhibition Regulates the Cell Adhesion of Corneal Endothelial Cells. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2011;52(14):6465.

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Abstract

Purpose: : We previously reported that the Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y-27632 promotes cell adhesion of corneal endothelial cells (CECs) and showed that cell injection into the anterior chamber combined with ROCK inhibitor enabled the transplantation of cultivated CECs without a substrate (ARVO, 2009). This current study was conducted to examine how the ROCK signaling regulates cell adhesion of corneal endothelial cells in vitro.

Methods: : CECs of cynomolgus monkeys were cultured. ROCK-I or ROCK-II genes were knocked-down by siRNA and cells were then seeded at a density of 3.0×103/cm2. Random siRNA was used as a control. The numbers of attached cells were evaluated by CellTiter-Glo® Luminescent Cell Viability Assay (Promega Corp., Madison, Wisconsin) after 24 hours. Next, cultured CECs without knockdown by siRNA were seeded with medium containing 10µM of cytochalasin D, a potent inhibitor of actin polymerization. CECs seeded without cytochalasin D were as a control. The numbers of attached cells were evaluated after 24 hours to examine the involvement of actin polymerization in the cell adhesion of CECs.

Results: : The mean numbers of attached cells were 420.3±79.1% in the ROCK-I siRNA group and 115.5±7.0% in the ROCK-II siRNA group as a ratio of the control siRNA group. The CellTiter-Glo® assay revealed that ROCK-I siRNA significantly enhanced cell adhesion of CECs (p<0.01). Inhibition of actin polymerization by cytochalasin D also demonstrated that cell adhesion was significantly enhanced (199.3±18.6% as a ratio of control cells; p<0.01).

Conclusions: : The findings of this study demonstrate that activation of ROCK-I negatively regulates cell adhesion of CECs, possibly via the actin polymerization. We theorize that the regulation of ROCK activity enables cell injection therapy without the use of a substrate for the treatment of corneal endothelial dysfunction.

Keywords: cornea: endothelium • cornea: basic science • cell adhesions/cell junctions 
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