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Endothelial KLF2 Links Local Arterial Shear Stress Levels to the Expression of Vascular Tone-Regulating Genes
Ist Teil von
The American journal of pathology, 2005-08, Vol.167 (2), p.609-618
Ort / Verlag
Bethesda, MD: Elsevier Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Quelle
ScienceDirect
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Lung Krüppel-like factor (LKLF/
KLF2
) is an endothelial transcription factor that is crucially involved in murine vasculogenesis and is specifically regulated by flow
in vitro
. We now show a relation to local flow variations in the adult human vasculature: decreased LKLF expression was noted at the aorta bifurcations to the iliac and carotid arteries, coinciding with neointima formation. The direct involvement of shear stress in the
in vivo
expression of LKLF was determined independently by
in situ
hybridization and laser microbeam microdissection/reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in a murine carotid artery collar model, in which a 4- to 30-fold induction of LKLF occurred at the high-shear sites. Dissection of the biomechanics of LKLF regulation
in vitro
demonstrated that steady flow and pulsatile flow induced basal LKLF expression 15- and 36-fold at shear stresses greater than ∼5 dyne/cm
2, whereas cyclic stretch had no effect. Prolonged LKLF induction in the absence of flow changed the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme, endothelin-1, adrenomedullin, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase to levels similar to those observed under prolonged flow. LKLF repression by siRNA suppressed the flow response of endothelin-1, adrenomedullin, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (
P
< 0.05). Thus, we demonstrate that endothelial LKLF is regulated by flow
in vivo
and is a transcriptional regulator of several endothelial genes that control vascular tone in response to flow.