Pulmonary expression of early growth response-1: biphasic time course and effect of oxygen concentration

• Published in: Journal of applied physiology (1985) Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 2303 - 2309
• Main Authors: Yan, Shi-Fang, Lu, Jiesheng, Xu, Linna, Zou, Yu Shan, Tongers, Joern, Kisiel, Walter, Mackman, Nigel, Pinsky, David J, Stern, David M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bethesda, MD Am Physiological Soc 01.06.2000; American Physiological Society
• Subjects: Air breathing; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Blotting, Northern; DNA-Binding Proteins - genetics; DNA-Binding Proteins - metabolism; Early Growth Response Protein 1; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genes; Genetics; Hypoxia - metabolism; Immediate-Early Proteins; Immunohistochemistry; Lung - metabolism; Lungs; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Osmolar Concentration; Oxygen; Oxygen - metabolism; Respiratory system: anatomy, metabolism, gas exchange, ventilatory mechanics, respiratory hemodynamics; RNA, Messenger - metabolism; Rodents; Thromboplastin - metabolism; Time Factors; Tissues; Transcription Factors - genetics; Transcription Factors - metabolism; Vertebrates: respiratory system; Oxygen; Lung; Rodentia; Tissue factor; Environmental factor; Gene expression; Respiratory system; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Mouse; Hypoxia; Transcription factor; Adaptation; Immediate early gene
• ISSN: 8750-7587; 1522-1601
• DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2000.88.6.2303

1  Departments of Surgery, Medicine, and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York 10032; 2  Department of Pathology, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131; and 3  Department of Immunology and Vascular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037 Hypoxia induces complex adaptive responses. In this report, induction of early growth response-1 (Egr-1) transcripts in lungs of mice subjected to hypoxia is shown to be dose and time dependent. Within 30 min of hypoxia, Egr-1 transcripts were ~20-fold elevated in 6% oxygen, ~5.2-fold increased by 10% oxygen, and returned to the normoxic baseline by 12% oxygen. Time course studies up to 48 h showed a biphasic profile with an initial steep rise in Egr-1 transcripts after 0.5 h of hypoxia and a second elevation beginning after 20-24 h. Hypoxic induction of Egr-1 was paralleled by enhanced expression of the downstream target gene tissue factor. Egr-1 and tissue factor antigen were visualized in bronchial and vascular smooth muscle and in alveolar macrophages. Egr-1 has the capacity to modulate expression of genes involved in the remodeling of the extracellular matrix and properties of smooth muscle, thus possibly contributing to the pulmonary response to chronic hypoxia. transcription factor; hypoxia gene expression; Sp1; tissue factor