PMID- 7644539 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19950921 LR - 20190501 IS - 0027-8424 (Print) IS - 1091-6490 (Electronic) IS - 0027-8424 (Linking) VI - 92 IP - 17 DP - 1995 Aug 15 TI - The cis-acting phorbol ester "12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate"-responsive element is involved in shear stress-induced monocyte chemotactic protein 1 gene expression. PG - 8069-73 AB - Vascular endothelial cells, serving as a barrier between vessel and blood, are exposed to shear stress in the body. Although endothelial responses to shear stress are important in physiological adaption to the hemodynamic environments, they can also contribute to pathological conditions--e.g., in atherosclerosis and reperfusion injury. We have previously shown that shear stress mediates a biphasic response of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) gene expression in vascular endothelial cells and that the regulation is at the transcriptional level. These observations led us to functionally analyze the 550-bp promoter region of the MCP-1-encoding gene to define the cis element responding to shear stress. The shear stress/luciferase assay on the deletion constructs revealed that a 38-bp segment (-53 to -90 bp relative to the transcription initiation site) containing two divergent phorbol ester "12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate" (TPA)-responsive elements (TRE) is critical for shear inducibility. Site-specific mutations on these two sites further demonstrated that the proximal one (TGACTCC) but not the distal one (TCACTCA) was shear-responsive. Shear inducibility was lost after the mutation or deletion of the proximal site. This molecular mechanism of shear inducibility of the MCP-1 gene was functional in both the epithelial-like HeLa cells and bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC). In a construct with four copies of the TRE consensus sequences TGACTACA followed by the rat prolactin minimal promoter and luciferase gene, shear stress induced the reporter activities by 35-fold and 7-fold in HeLa cells and BAEC, respectively. The application of shear stress on BAEC also induced a rapid and transient phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinases. Pretreatment of BAEC with TPA attenuated the shear-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylation, suggesting that shear stress and TPA share a similar signal transduction pathway in activating cells. The present study provides a molecular basis for the transient induction of MCP-1 gene by shear stress. FAU - Shyy, J Y AU - Shyy JY AD - Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA. FAU - Lin, M C AU - Lin MC FAU - Han, J AU - Han J FAU - Lu, Y AU - Lu Y FAU - Petrime, M AU - Petrime M FAU - Chien, S AU - Chien S LA - eng GR - HL 19454/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - HL 43026/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A JT - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America JID - 7505876 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Chemotactic Factors) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - EC 2.7.11.17 (Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases) RN - NI40JAQ945 (Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Aorta MH - Base Sequence MH - Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - Cattle MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chemokine CCL2 MH - Chemotactic Factors/*biosynthesis/genetics MH - Consensus Sequence MH - Cytokines/biosynthesis MH - DNA Primers MH - Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism/*physiology MH - Epithelium/physiology MH - *Gene Expression MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Phosphorylation MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Promoter Regions, Genetic MH - *Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid MH - Restriction Mapping MH - *Stress, Mechanical MH - Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/*pharmacology MH - Transcription, Genetic MH - Transfection PMC - PMC41288 EDAT- 1995/08/15 00:00 MHDA- 1995/08/15 00:01 PMCR- 1996/02/15 CRDT- 1995/08/15 00:00 PHST- 1995/08/15 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1995/08/15 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1995/08/15 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 1996/02/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1073/pnas.92.17.8069 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Aug 15;92(17):8069-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.17.8069.