Transcriptional activation of the cardiac myosin light chain 2 and atrial natriuretic factor genes by protein kinase C in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes.
AUTOR(ES)
Shubeita, H E
RESUMO
A cultured myocardial cell model was used to examine the role of protein kinase C-dependent pathways in the transcriptional activation of two cardiac muscle genes [myosin light chain 2 (MLC-2) and atrial natriuretic factor (ANF)] during alpha-adrenergic receptor-mediated hypertrophy. Phorbol ester (phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate) and the alpha-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine both activate protein kinase C (PKC) and induce 4- to 5-fold increases in the expression of MLC-2 and ANF promoter/luciferase reporter genes with little effect on Rous sarcoma virus/luciferase or minimal prolactin promoter/luciferase genes. To further assess the role of PKC in cardiac gene regulation, PKC expression vectors encoding constitutively activated PKC-alpha or PKC-beta, or a catalytically inactive PKC, were transiently cotransfected with the cardiac promoter/luciferase constructs. Cotransfection of either activated PKC-alpha or PKC-beta cDNA induces the expression of MLC-2 and ANF promoter/luciferase genes and of a reporter gene responsive to the transcription factor AP-1. The Rous sarcoma virus/luciferase and minimal prolactin promoter/luciferase genes are not concomitantly induced by cotransfectin with the PKC genes, indicating specificity of the transcriptional effect. The finding that activated PKC increases cardiac gene transcription suggests that activation of this enzyme may be a proximal signal for coregulation of two cardiac genes, MLC-2 and ANF, during the course of myocardial cell hypertrophy.
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