Transcriptional regulation of human angiopoietin-2 by transcription factor Ets-1.
Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) plays an important role in destabilizing vessels for angiogenesis, however its transcriptional regulation has not been determined. Here we isolated about 3.2kb of the 5' upstream of the human Ang-2 gene and further characterized the transcriptional regulation of Ang-2. We found 10 Ets binding sites (EBSs) in this region. Ets-1 and Ets-2 but not Erg-1 augmented its promoter activity. Sequential deletion of EBSs and mutation analysis revealed that EBS8 located at -416/-406 from the translation initiation site was critical for Ets-1- or Ets-2-stimulated promoter activity. VEGF induced the expression of Ets-1 and Ang-2 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Electrophoretic mobility shift and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that Ets-1 bound to EBS8 in HUVECs. Moreover, synthetic double-strand oligonucleotides containing corresponding EBS8 abrogated the induction of Ang-2 by VEGF in HUVECs. These results indicate that Ets-1 and the corresponding EBS are critical for the induction of Ang-2.
Hasegawa
Yasuhiro
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Department of Vascular Biology, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, 4-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.
Abe
Mayumi
M
Yamazaki
Tohru
T
Niizeki
Osamu
O
Shiiba
Kenichi
K
Sasaki
Iwao
I
Sato
Yasufumi
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D042702:Angiopoietin-2 / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D020218:Response Elements; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
D042702:Angiopoietin-2; C494041:ETS1 protein, human; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D014157:Transcription Factors