Molecular Endocrinology, Vol 6, 1003-1012, Copyright © 1992 by Endocrine Society

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Endothelin induces transcription of fos/jun family genes: a prominent role for calcium ion

D Pribnow, LL Muldoon, M Fajardo, L Theodor, LY Chen and BE Magun
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201.

The 21-amino acid mammalian peptide endothelin (ET) is a powerful vasoconstrictor, a mitogen for fibroblasts and vascular smooth muscle cells, and a potent effector for numerous tissues. Through extracellular interaction with G protein-coupled transmembrane receptors, ET stimulates intracellular second messenger events that in turn activate immediate early gene transcription. Using Northern blot hybridization and nuclear run-on analyses, we examined the modulation of c-fos, fos-B, fra-1, c-jun, and jun-B gene transcripts in Rat-1 fibroblasts after ET treatment. Furthermore, we investigated the role that intracellular Ca2+ transients played in effecting this gene regulation, using the intracellular Ca2+ chelator 1,2-bis(o- aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) to block Ca(2+)- dependent transcription. Our results demonstrate that ET rapidly effects increased RNA levels for all five fos/jun family genes investigated, at least two of them by increasing gene transcription. Furthermore, our results argue that increased intracellular free Ca2+ is directly involved in the induction of these fos/jun family genes by ET. While mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ is not the only pathway to fos/jun gene induction used by ET, it is clearly a major component of the signaling apparatus that is set in motion by this potent effector.

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