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8163570

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) regulates glomerular hemodynamics, alters extracellular matrix production, and induces proliferation of glomerular mesangial cells (MCs). Therefore, AVP may play a role in glomerular sclerosis and the progression of chronic renal failure. To investigate changes in early gene expression which may link intracellular biochemical events with changes in MC phenotype following AVP stimulation, we studied expression of the Early growth response gene-1 (Egr-1). Nuclear run off assays demonstrate that AVP induces Egr-1 at the transcriptional level. Transcriptional induction was, like induction of mitogenesis, dependent upon activation of protein kinase C (PK C). Promoter deletion analysis revealed that the region critical for Egr-1 inducibility by AVP contained several serum response element (SRE) consensus sequences. Sequential deletion of these SREs led to a drop in AVP-stimulated promoter activity. AVP was also able to stimulate transcription from a construct containing an Egr-1 SRE upstream of a heterologous promoter and this effect required activation of PK C. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays, using an Egr-1 SRE as probe, demonstrate up to four protein-SRE complexes of differing size that undergo modest quantitative changes following AVP stimulation. These data in MCs suggest that upstream SREs mediate transcriptional induction of Egr-1 by AVP in a PK C-dependent fashion and that changes in DNA-protein interaction involving the SREs may be in part responsible for this effect.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9541
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
159
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
311-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Arginine Vasopressin, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Blood, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Early Growth Response Protein 1, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Glomerular Mesangium, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Half-Life, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Immediate-Early Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:8163570-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Serum response elements mediate protein kinase C dependent transcriptional induction of early growth response gene-1 by arginine vasopressin in rat mesangial cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Yale University, School of Medicine, VA Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut 06516.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't