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Inhibition of E-selectin gene transcription through a cAMP-dependent protein kinase pathway.

Paola Ghersal,R. V. Huijsduijnen,J. Whelan,Y. Cambet,R. Pescini,John F. DeLamarter

Published 1994 in Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Cytokines induce the expression of E-selectin, VCAM-1, and ICAM-1 on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). We show that expression of these surface proteins is differently affected by cAMP. Increased cAMP levels decrease E-selectin and VCAM-1 but increase ICAM-1 expression. We demonstrate by mRNA half-life analysis and nuclear run-on assays that the cAMP repression of E-selectin occurs at the transcription level. This effect is abolished by protein kinase A inhibition, suggesting that repression is mediated by protein kinase A-driven phosphorylation. We found that a minimal E-selectin promoter sequence necessary to confer cytokine inducibility is also sufficient to mimic the cAMP effect in transfected HUVECs. Previously we characterized two regions (NF-kappa B and NF-ELAM1) of the minimal promoter that bind transcription factors necessary for E-selectin induction, Increased cAMP did not alter the binding of the complexes formed on either the NF-kappa B or NF-ELAM1 site. In contrast, in interleukin-1-treated HUVECs transactivity due to an NF-kappa B site is reduced by elevated cAMP. Increased cAMP in HUVECs appears to induce a protein kinase activity that reduces the cytokine signal for E-selectin and VCAM-1 expression. The reduction in signal may occur through an inhibitory phosphorylation of one or more of the factors responsible for regulating E-selectin expression.

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