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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on June 28, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-02-0415.

Submitted February 8, 2002
Accepted June 18, 2002
The Proximal Serum Response Element in the Egr-1 Promoter Mediates Response to Thrombin in Primary Human Endothelial Cells
Sheng-qian Wu, Takashi Minami, Diana Donovan, and William C Aird*
Molecular Medicine, RW-663, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
* Corresponding author; email: waird{at}caregroup.harvard.edu.
Thrombin signaling in endothelial cells provides an important link between coagulation and inflammation. We report here that thrombin induces endogenous Egr-1 mRNA and Egr-1 promoter activity in primary human endothelial cells, by approximately 6-fold and 3-fold, respectively. In transient transfection assays, deletion of the 3' cluster of serum response elements (SREs), but not the 5' cluster of SREs, resulted in a loss of thrombin response. When coupled to a heterologous core promoter, a region spanning the 3' SRE cluster contained information for thrombin response, whereas a region spanning the 5' SRE cluster had no such effect. A point mutation of the most proximal SRE (SRE-1), but not of the proximal Ets motif or upstream SREs, abrogated the response to thrombin. In electrophoretic mobility shift assays, nuclear extracts from thrombin-treated cells displayed increased binding of total and phosphorylated serum response factor (SRF) to SRE-1. Thrombin-mediated induction of Egr-1 was blocked by inhibitors of MEK1/2, but not by inhibitors of protein kinase C, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase or p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Taken together, these data suggest that thrombin induces Egr-1 expression in endothelial cells by a MAPK-dependent mechanism that involves an interaction between SRF and SRE-1.

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