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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-021-04065-5
Keywords
Epidermal growth factor receptor; Angiotensin II receptor type 1; Serum response factor; Myocardin-related transcription factor; Signaling synergy; Vascular biology
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG GE905/19-1, GE905/24-1]
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The study reveals that EGFR and AT1R synergistically regulate gene expression, leading to qualitative, quantitative, and temporal changes, potentially impacting cell stress and vascular biology. Synergistic activation of SRF via distinct pathways and transcription factors AP1 and EGR plays a key role in this process.
The tyrosine kinase receptor EGFR and the G-protein-coupled receptor AT1R induce essential cellular responses, in part via receptor crosstalk with an unknown role in nuclear information transfer and transcription regulation. We investigated whether this crosstalk results in linear, EGFR-mediated nuclear signalling or in parallel, synergistic information transfer leading to qualitative and temporal variations, relevant for gene expression and environment interaction. AT1R and EGFR synergistically activate SRF via the ERK1/2-TCF and actin-MRTF pathways. Synergism, comprised of switch-like and graded single cell response, converges on the transcription factors AP1 and EGR, resulting in synergistic transcriptome alterations, in qualitative (over-additive number of genes), quantitative (over-additive expression changes of individual genes) and temporal (more late onset and prolonged expressed genes) terms. Gene ontology and IPA(R) pathway analysis indicate prolonged cell stress (e.g. hypoxia-like) and dysregulated vascular biology. Synergism occurs during separate but simultaneous activation of both receptors and during AT1R-induced EGFR transactivation. EGFR and AT1R synergistically regulate gene expression in qualitative, quantitative and temporal terms with (patho)physiological relevance, extending the importance of EGFR-AT1R crosstalk beyond cytoplasmic signalling.
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