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ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 1192-1198Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000131263.06296.77
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endothelial cells; inflammation; interleukin-1; microarrays; transcription factors
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Objective - Endothelial cells comprise a key component of the inflammatory response. We set out to obtain a comprehensive overview of the immediate-early to early gene expression program of interleukin-1 (IL-1)-stimulated endothelial cells and to identify novel transcription factors and regulatory elements. Methods and Results - Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were stimulated with IL-1 for 0, 0.5, 1, 2.5, and 6 hours and analyzed using Affymetrix U133 microarrays. A total of 137 genes were found to be regulated >4-fold, including 18 transcription factors. The expression of selected genes was confirmed by real-time polymerase chain reaction. Cluster analysis was performed in order to group genes according to their expression profiles. To identify novel transcription factor - binding sites, the corresponding promoters were extracted from databases and analyzed for regulatory elements that were over-represented in specific clusters. Several potentially novel DNA binding sites were identified, and one was shown to specifically bind an IL-1-inducible protein from HUVEC. Conclusions - These results demonstrate that in the early phase after stimulation, IL-1 evokes a complex gene expression program that includes positive but also negative (feedback) regulators of diverse endothelial cell functions. Furthermore, the identification of a new promoter regulatory element demonstrates the feasibility of the bioinformatics-driven approach to discover novel regulatory mechanisms.
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