Author(s)

Bin Gao¹, Ping Chen¹, Qifeng Jiang^2*

¹Department of Medical Information, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) is a collagen-specific molecular chaperone that is required for mo-lecular maturation of various types of collagens. Many studies have shown a close association be-tween increased expression of HSP47 and excessive accumulation of collagens in scar tissues of various human fibrotic diseases. However, the role of HSP47 in formation of scar after glaucoma filtration surgery is still unclear. In this study, we deleted the expression of HSP47 in human tent on fibroblasts (HTFs) by virus infection, and then the proliferation and collagen synthesis were compared between HSP47 deletion cells and control upon TGF-β1 stimulation. Our data showed that HSP47 deletion could significantly inhibit the proliferation and collagen synthesis of HTFs upon TGF-β1 stimulation, HSP47 gene suppression might be a novel method to against the formation of scar after glaucoma surgery.

Heat Shock Protein 47, Proliferation, Collagen Synthesis, Fibroblasts

Gao, B. , Chen, P. and Jiang, Q. (2016) HSP47 Deletion Inhibits TGF-β1 Stimulation on Proliferation and Collagen Synthesis of Human Tenon Fibroblasts. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 4, 24-29. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2016.48004.