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Evidence of calcium-dependent pathway in the regulation of human ß1,3-glucuronosyltransferase-1 (GlcAT-I) gene expression: a key enzyme in proteoglycan synthesis

Lydia Barré, Narayanan Venkatesan, Jacques Magdalou, Patrick Netter, Sylvie Fournel-Gigleux and Mohamed Ouzzine1

UMR 7561 CNRS-Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, Faculté de Médecine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

ABSTRACT

The importance of heparan- and chondroitin-sulfate proteoglycans in physiological and pathological processes led to the investigation of the regulation of ß1,3-glucuronosyltransferase I (GlcAT-I), responsible for the completion of glycosaminoglycan-protein linkage tetrasaccharide, a key step prior to polymerization of chondroitin- and heparan-sulfate chains. We have cloned and functionally characterized GlcAT-I 5'-flanking regulatory region. Mutation analysis and electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated the importance of Sp1 motif located at –65/–56 position in promoter activity. Furthermore, we found that elevation of intracellular calcium concentration by the calcium ionophore ionomycin stimulated GlcAT-I gene expression as well as glycosaminoglycan chain synthesis in HeLa cells. Bisanthracycline, an anti-Sp1 compound, inhibited GlcAT-I basal promoter activity and suppressed ionomycin induction, suggesting the importance of Sp1 in calcium induction of GlcAT-I gene expression. Nuclear protein extracts from ionomycin-induced cells exhibited an increased DNA binding of Sp1 factor to the consensus sequence at position –65/–56. Signaling pathway analysis and MEK inhibition studies revealed the important role of p42/p44 MAPK in the stimulation of GlcAT-I promoter activity by ionomycin. The present study identifies, for the first time, GlcAT-I as a target of calcium-dependent signaling pathway and evidences the critical role of Sp1 transcription factor in the activation of GlcAT-I expression.—Barré, L., Venkatesan, N., Magdalou, J., Netter, P., Fournel-Gigleux, S., Ouzzine, M. Evidence of calcium-dependent pathway in the regulation of human ß1,3-glucuronosyltransferase (GlcAT-I) gene expression: a key enzyme in proteoglycan synthesis.






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