Establishment of a cell-based assay to screen regulators of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1-dependent vascular endothelial growth factor promoter.
Biol Pharm Bull
; 31(12): 2255-9, 2008 Dec.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19043209
ABSTRACT
In this study, we established a drug screening system based on transcriptional regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) under hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha control. We cloned the neomycin-resistance gene into the plasmid GL (pGL)3-promoter vector to generate the pGL3-promoter-neo vector. The 3 copies of the 47-bp fragment that contained the hypoxia response element of VEGF were synthesized and inserted in front of the minimal promoter of the pGL3-promoter-neo vector to generate p3HRE-luc-neo. The recombinant reporter gene vectors were transfected into EAhy926 cells, and stable cell lines were obtained. The positive cell line was selected for its ability to express luciferase in response to hypoxia. We demonstrated that CoCl(2) significantly enhances luciferase activity in a concentration-dependent fashion. We then optimized the cell density and incubation time under hypoxia which were used to screen. The assay exhibited a low background and was an ideal model for high-throughput screening for human VEGF regulators.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Regiões Promotoras Genéticas
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Fator A de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular
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Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article