1. FGF2-mediated upregulation of urokinase-type plasminogen activator expression requires a MAP-kinase dependent activation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase.
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Riccardo Caldini, Emanuela Barletta, Mario Del Rosso, Lisa Giovannelli, and Marta Chevanne
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POLY(ADP-ribose) polymerase ,DNA ,GENES ,GENE expression ,NAD (Coenzyme) - Abstract
Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is a post-translational modification of protein occurring in the nucleus by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase enzyme activity. The main role of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase system as nick sensor and DNA breaks repair is based on its activation via DNA strand breaks. Furthermore, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase modifies the binding to DNA of several transcriptional factors by poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, thereby regulating also transcriptional gene expression. We have analyzed whether poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activity is involved in basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2)-mediated upregulation of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) mRNA. We demonstrated that specific inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activity via 3-aminobenzamide (3ABA) or NAD+ deprivation prevents FGF2-mediated uPA mRNA over-expression and cell-associated plasminogen activator (PA) production in GM7373 endothelial cell line. We verified that FGF2 stimulates poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase activity by a DNA strand breaks-independent manner which involves a mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK)-dependent pathway, as confirmed by using PD98059 inhibitor and anisomycin stimulation. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase involved in this mechanism is mainly the 60 kDa molecular mass isoform, that presents an increase in serine phosphorylation in the presence of FGF2. 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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