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J Am Soc Nephrol 11:1607-1619, 2000
© 2000 American Society of Nephrology

The Decorin High Glucose Response Element and Mechanism of Its Activation in Human Mesangial Cells

NADIA ABDEL WAHAB*, SUSAN PARKER*, JEAN-DANIEL SRAER{dagger} and ROGER M. MASON*

* Molecular Pathology Section, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
{dagger} Service de Néphrologie A, Hopital Tenon, Paris, France.

Correspondence to Roger M. Mason, Molecular Pathology Section, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Imperial College School of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. Telephone: +44 20 7594 3019; Facsimile: +44 20 7594 3022; E-mail: roger.mason{at}ic.ac.uk

Abstract. The decorin gene encodes a proteoglycan with putative structural and regulatory functions whose expression is markedly increased in human mesangial cells (HMC) exposed to high concentrations of glucose (15 to 30 mM). The gene has two promoters (P1 and P2) upstream of two alternative first exons. Transcripts driven by both promoters are present in HMC maintained in 4 mM D-glucose medium. After exposure to 30 mM D-glucose for 7 to 21 d, transcripts driven by P1 are markedly increased, whereas those driven by P2 decrease. Culture in 4 mM D-glucose medium containing transforming growth factor-ß1 (TGF-ß1) (1.25 ng/ml) has the same effect. However, addition of an excess of TGF-ß neutralizing antibody to the 30 mM D-glucose cultures only partly suppressed increased decorin transcription from P1. In transformed HMC transfected with a reporter (p-SAEP) driven by P1 or P2, P1 activity increased twofold on treatment with either 30 mM D-glucose or TGF-ß1 in 4 mM medium. P2 had little activity under any conditions. 5' deletion of P1 showed that basal transcriptional activity lies within the proximal 378 bp, while the major high glucose and TGF-ß response element is located in the -683 to -583-bp region. A putative cAMP response-like sequence (TGACGTTT) lies within this region. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed the same pattern of multiple complexes between oligonucleotides containing this sequence and nuclear proteins extracted from HMC maintained in either 4 or 30 mM D-glucose conditions, but the latter were more prominent. cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) was identified as one transcription factor forming these complexes but other factors remain unidentified. Increased levels of phospho-(Ser 133) CREB were found in HMC exposed to 30 mM D-glucose. High glucose also activated and led to nuclear translocation of p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, both of which can activate CREB by phosphorylation of serine 133.




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