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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI119219

Shear stress induction of the tissue factor gene.

M C Lin, F Almus-Jacobs, H H Chen, G C Parry, N Mackman, J Y Shyy, and S Chien

Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA.

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Published February 15, 1997 - More info

Published in Volume 99, Issue 4 on February 15, 1997
J Clin Invest. 1997;99(4):737–744. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI119219.
© 1997 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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Abstract

Using flow channel, we report that the application of a laminar shear stress induced a transient increase of tissue factor (TF) procoagulant activity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), which was accompanied by a rapid and transient induction of the TF mRNA in the HUVEC. Functional analysis of the 2.2 kb TF 5' promoter indicated that a GC-rich region containing three copies each of the EGR-1 and Sp1 sites was required for induction. Mutation of the Sp1 sites, but not the EGR-1 sites, attenuated the response of TF promoter to shear stress. Thus, Sp1 is a newly defined shear stress responsive element. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed there was no increase in binding of nuclear extracts from sheared cells to an Sp1 consensus site. In contrast, immunoblotting of these nuclear extracts with antibody against transcription factor Sp1 demonstrated that shear stress increased the phosphorylation of Sp1. We also showed that shear stress, like the phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, increased the transcriptional activity of Sp1. These findings suggest that the shear stress induction of TF gene expression is mediated through an increased Sp1 transcriptional activity with a concomitant hyperphosphorylation of Sp1.

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