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Activation of Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 in Rat Aorta in Response to High Blood Pressure

Qingbo Xu; Timothy W. Fawcett; Robert Udelsman; Nikki J. Holbrook

the Section on Gene Expression and Aging, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and Division of Endocrine Surgery (R.U.), The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.

We have previously demonstrated that acute hypertension induces heat shock protein gene expression in rat arterial wall. Here we provide evidence that this induction is mediated through the activation of heat shock transcription factor 1 in response to high blood pressure. Rats subjected to restraint or immobilization stress displayed an acute elevation in systolic pressure accompanied by an increase in heat shock protein 70 mRNA expression. Consistent with the rapid time course of mRNA induction, an increase in binding activity to an oligonucleotide encompassing a consensus heat shock element sequence was seen in protein extracts from aorta of restrained rats as assessed with gel mobility shift assays. A similar increase in DNA binding activity was also observed in aortic extracts from rats treated with various hypertensive agents, including phenylephrine, angiotensin II, and vasopressin. That the DNA binding activity was attributed to heat shock factor 1 was shown through use of antibodies to the transcription factor that retarded the DNA-protein complexes in gel mobility supershift assays. Western blot analysis of heat shock factor 1 protein expression in aortic extracts showed a slower mobility form of the protein in hypertensive rats, indicative of an activated, presumably phosphorylated, form of the transcription factor. These findings support the view that heat shock factor 1 is responsible for induction of heat shock protein 70 in the arterial wall during acute hypertension, a response that is likely to play an important role in protecting arteries during hemodynamic stress.

Key Words: gene expression • heat shock proteins • stress • transcription, genetic

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