PMID- 16236264 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20051230 LR - 20181201 IS - 0006-291X (Print) IS - 0006-291X (Linking) VI - 337 IP - 4 DP - 2005 Dec 2 TI - Annexin A3 is a potential angiogenic mediator. PG - 1283-7 AB - Angiogenesis is a complex process that is regulated by a variety of angiogenic activators and inhibitors. Disruption of the balanced angiogenesis leads to the progress of diseases such as tumor growth, rheumatoid arthritis, and various blood vessel-related disorders. Even though a number of proteins involved in angiogenesis have been identified so far, more protein factors remain to be identified due to complexity of the process. Here we report that annexin A3 (ANXA3) induces migration and tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells. High level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a prominent angiogenic factor, is also detected in conditioned medium obtained from cells transfected with ANXA3 expression plasmid. Reporter assays show that ANXA3 enhances hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) transactivation activity. Taken together, our results suggest that ANXA3 is a novel angiogenic factor that induces VEGF production through the HIF-1 pathway. FAU - Park, Jae Eun AU - Park JE AD - Systemic Proteomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejon 305-333, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Do Hee AU - Lee DH FAU - Lee, Jung A AU - Lee JA FAU - Park, Sung Goo AU - Park SG FAU - Kim, Nam-Soon AU - Kim NS FAU - Park, Byoung Chul AU - Park BC FAU - Cho, Sayeon AU - Cho S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20051010 PL - United States TA - Biochem Biophys Res Commun JT - Biochemical and biophysical research communications JID - 0372516 RN - 0 (Culture Media, Conditioned) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1) RN - 0 (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A) RN - EC 3.1.4.43 (Annexin A3) SB - IM MH - Annexin A3/genetics/*metabolism MH - Cell Movement MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Culture Media, Conditioned/metabolism MH - Endothelial Cells/cytology/metabolism MH - Gene Expression MH - Humans MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1/genetics/metabolism MH - *Neovascularization, Physiologic MH - Transcriptional Activation/genetics MH - Umbilical Veins/cytology/growth & development/metabolism MH - Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism EDAT- 2005/10/21 09:00 MHDA- 2005/12/31 09:00 CRDT- 2005/10/21 09:00 PHST- 2005/09/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2005/10/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2005/10/21 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/12/31 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/10/21 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-291X(05)02235-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.10.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Dec 2;337(4):1283-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.10.004. Epub 2005 Oct 10.