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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 83-94Publisher
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DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2000.1278
Keywords
interleukin-4; vascular cell adhesion molecule-1; oxidative stress; human endothelial cells; transcriptional regulation; atherosclerosis
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- NIEHS NIH HHS [P42 ES007380] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [P42ES007380] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) is expressed in early stages of atherosclerosis; however, the mechanisms of its upregulation are not fully understood. In the present study, we examined the effects of interleukin-4 (IL-4) on VCAM-1 gene expression and its transcriptional regulatory mechanism in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction showed that VCAM-1 mRNA was induced in IL-4-treated HUVEC in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Among known transcription factors that have binding sites in the promoter region of the VCAM-1 gene, IL-4 activated only SP-1. In contrast, nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), activator protein-1 (AP-1) and interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1), which also have consensus binding sequences in the 5'-flanking region of the human VCAM-1 gene, were not activated. The role of SP-1 in IL-4-induced VCAM-1 expression was confirmed in HUVEC transfected with a reporter construct of the VCAM-1 promoter with mutated SP-1 binding site. As IL-4 treatment of HUVEC enhanced the intracellular oxidizing potential, as indicated by an increase in 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein (DCF) fluorescence. we studied the effect of antioxidants on IL-4-induced VCAM-1 expression. Pretreatment of HUVEC with pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) or N-acetylcysteine (NAC) completely prevented IL-4-induced VCAM-1 expression. In addition. PDTC inhibited IL-4-related activation of SP-1. These results suggest that IL-1-induced oxidative stress upregulates the expression of VCAM-1 gene in HUVEC at transcriptional levels via activation of SP-1 transcription factor. In contrast, NF-kappaB, AP-1 or IRF-1 do not appear to be involved in the signal transduction cascade. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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