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Departments of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
The process of angiogenic switching is one of the most important factors in the growth and development of breast tumors. Vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor (VPF/VEGF) is considered to be the most important directly acting angiogenic protein that has been shown to be up-regulated in breast cancer cells. Hypoxia seems to be an important stimulus for inducing VPF/VEGF mRNA expression in human mammary tumors. Here, we have studied the roles of the tumor suppressor gene p53 and the proto-oncogene c-Src in regulating the transcription of VPF/VEGF in breast cancer cell lines MCF-7 and MDA-MB 435 under both normoxic and hypoxic conditions. p53 significantly inhibited the transcription of VPF/VEGF involving the transcription factor Sp1. Increased binding of Sp1 to the VPF/VEGF promoter has been observed when the cells were exposed to hypoxia. It has been shown that p53 makes a complex with Sp1 and inhibits its binding to the VPF/VEGF promoter to prevent the transcriptional activation. Furthermore, c-Src kinase activity was found to be increased in the hypoxic condition, and in the presence of antisense of Src, there was down-regulation of the total mRNA level and also the promoter activity of VPF/VEGF. The present study indicates that p53 can also inhibit the hypoxic induction of Src kinase activity and thereby may prevent VPF/VEGF transcription. Taken together, our data suggest a central role of p53, through which it can inhibit VPF/VEGF expression by regulating the transcriptional activity of Sp1 and also by down-regulating the Src kinase activity, under both normoxic and hypoxic conditions.
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