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Departments of 1 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2 Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, 3 Obstetrics and Gynecology, 4 Pediatrics, 5 Hematology/Oncology, and 6 Neurosurgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; 7 Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; 8 Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; and 9 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Hypoxia strongly up-regulates tissue factor and promotes plasma clotting by glioblastoma multiforme, but transcriptional mechanisms remain undefined. Here, we investigated the potential roles of early growth response gene-1 (Egr-1), Sp1, nuclear factor-
B (NF-
B), activator protein-1 (AP-1), and hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) in the hypoxic regulation of tissue factor by glioblastoma multiforme cells in vitro. Hypoxia (1% O2) strongly induced Egr-1 mRNA within 1 hour and led to nuclear localization of Egr-1 protein. Using luciferase reporter plasmids in glioma cells, we found that hypoxia dramatically increased luciferase activity in cells with constructs containing Egr-1-binding sites but not in cells with constructs containing AP-1- or NF-
B-binding sites. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed hypoxia-induced Egr-1, but not Sp1, binding to oligonucleotides containing the Egr-1/Sp1 motif of tissue factor gene promoter. Using an expression vector containing the minimal tissue factor promoter (111 to +14 bp) and small interfering RNA (siRNA) directed at Egr-1 and Sp1 mRNAs, we found that Egr-1 was required for maximal hypoxic induction of promoter activity. Forced overexpression of Egr-1 but not Sp1 by cDNA transfection caused up-regulation of tissue factor in glioma cells under normoxia (21% O2), whereas siRNA directed at Egr-1 strongly attenuated hypoxia-induced tissue factor expression. To examine the effects of HIF-1
on tissue factor expression, we used glioma cells stably transfected with a HIF-1
siRNA expression vector and found that HIF-1
mRNA silencing did not affect tissue factor expression under hypoxia. We conclude that hypoxic up-regulation of tissue factor in glioblastoma multiforme cells depends largely on Egr-1 and is independent of HIF-1. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(14): 7067-74)
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