Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 27, Issue 9, Pages 1310-1314Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210731
Keywords
Tie2; angiopoietin-2; HIF-1 alpha; VEGF; gliomas
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA16672, R01-CA83127] Funding Source: Medline
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Angiogenesis is thought to depend on a perfectly coordinated balance between endogenous-positive and negative regulatory factors. Of these factors, the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietins (Angs) seem to play an essential role. Recently, we reported the expression of the Ang-natural receptor, Tie2, in neoplastic astrocytic cells within gliomas. Because of the VEGF/Ang2 functional partnership together with the presence of Tie2 in gliomas, we hypothesized a role of Ang2 on the modulation of VEGF levels in these tumors. We examined the effect of Ang2 on VEGF expression in a panel of glioma cells, which showed that Ang2 inhibited VEGF expression at both mRNA and protein levels in Tie2-expressing cells, but not in Tie2-negative cells. VEGF promoter analysis showed that Ang2 regulated VEGF expression at the transcriptional level in relation to a decrease in HIF-1 alpha expression and HIF-DNA-binding activity. Tie2 silencing by siRNA rescued the Ang2-mediated downmodulation of VEGF, suggesting an essential role for Tie2 in this regulatory loop. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the role of Ang2/Tie2 in the regulation of HIF-1 alpha/VEGF expression, providing additional evidence of the intrinsic coordination that occurs among these factors during angiogenesis.
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