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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 470, Issue -, Pages 281-291Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20150397
Keywords
activating protein 2 alpha (AP2 alpha); high glucose; oxidative stress; soluble epoxide hydrolase gene (EPHX2); specificity protein 1 (Sp1)
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [S1001051]
- Kwansei Gakuin University
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sEH (soluble epoxide hydrolase), which is encoded by the EPHX2 gene, regulates the actions of bioactive lipids, EETs (epoxyeicosatrienoic acids). Previously, we found that high-glucose-induced oxidative stress suppressed sEH levels in a hepatocarcinoma cell line (Hep3B) and sEH was decreased in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice in vivo. In the present study, we investigated the regulatory mechanisms underlying EPHX2 transcriptional suppression under high-glucose conditions. The decrease in sEH was prevented by an Sp1 (specificity protein 1) inhibitor, mithramycin A, and overexpression or knockdown of Sp1 revealed that Sp1 suppressively regulated sEH expression, in contrast with the general role of Sp1 on transcriptional activation. In addition, we found that AP2 alpha (activating protein 2 alpha) promoted EPHX2 transcription. The nuclear transport of Sp1, but not that of AP2 alpha, was increased under high glucose concomitantly with the decrease in sEH. Within the EPHX2 promoter -56/+32, five Sp1-binding sites were identified, and the mutation of each of these sites showed that the first one (SP1_1) was important in both suppression by Sp1 and activation by AP2 alpha. Furthermore, overexpression of Sp1 diminished the binding of AP2 alpha by DNA-affinity precipitation assay and ChIP, suggesting competition between Sp1 and AP2 alpha on the EPHX2 promoter. These findings provide novel insights into the role of Sp1 in transcriptional suppression, which may be applicable to the transcriptional regulation of other genes.
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