Transcriptional regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 gene in ovine large luteal cells

Y. L. Wu, M. C. Wiltbank*

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There is positive feedback pathway in the ovine large luteal cell, such that prostaglandin (PG) F stimulation induces intraluteal PGF production as the result of induction of one of the rate-limiting enzymes in PG production, cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2). The objective of the present study was to evaluate the intracellular effector systems and important DNA transcriptional element(s) involved in regulating the Cox-2 gene in ovine large luteal cells. In transient transfection assays, Cox-2 promoter was rapidly induced (4 h) by phorbol didecanoate (a protein kinase [PK] C activator), ionomycin, and cloprostenol (PGF analogue), with a peak induction at 12 h. Cloprostenol-mediated promoter activation was not blocked by inhibition of various second messenger systems, including PKA, calcium calmodulin kinase II, or mitogen-activated protein kinases. However, myristoylated PKC pseudosubstrate peptide inhibited cloprostenol stimulation of Cox-2 promoter, indicating the critical role of PKC in this stimulation. The Cox-2 promoter could be reduced to 282 base pairs (bp) of the 5′ flanking sequence with retention of full inducibility by cloprostenol. Mutation of three critical cisresponsive elements within this 282-bp region (C/EBP, cAMP responsive element [CRE], and E-box) indicated that E-box was critical in both basal and cloprostenol-induced promoter activity. However, there was also significant but less dramatic inhibition of cloprostenol stimulation by mutation of C/EBP and CRE in the Cox-2 promoter, and mutation of all three elements eliminated cloprostenol induction of this promoter. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays of nuclear extracts from large luteal cells revealed that upstream stimulatory factor (USF)-1 and USF-2 bound to the E-box in Cox-2. Thus, PKC directly regulates transcription of the Cox-2 gene in large luteal cells by acting through DNA elements close to the putative transcriptional start point, particularly an E-box region at -50 bp.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)1565-1572
頁數8
期刊Biology of Reproduction
65
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2001

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