17β-Estradiol inhibits matrix metalloproteinase-2 transcription via MAP kinase in fibroblasts
Open Access
- 27 October 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Cardiovascular Research
- Vol. 85 (4), 719-728
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvp350
Abstract
Female sex and sex hormones contribute to cardiac remodelling. 17β-estradiol (E2) is involved in the modulation of extracellular matrix composition and function. Here, we analysed the effect of E2 on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 gene expression and studied the underlying molecular mechanisms in rat cardiac fibroblasts and in a human fibroblast cell line. In adult rat cardiac fibroblasts, E2 significantly decreased MMP-2 gene expression in an estrogen receptor (ER)-dependent manner. Transient transfection experiments of human MMP-2 (hMMP-2) promoter deletion constructs in a human fibroblast cell line revealed a regulatory region between −324 and −260 bp that is involved in E2/ERα-mediated repression of hMMP-2 gene transcription. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) and supershift analysis demonstrated the binding of transcription factor Elk-1 within this promoter region. Elk-1 was phosphorylated by E2 via the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathway as shown by western blotting. Treatment of cells with the MAPK inhibitor PD98059 blocked the E2-dependent repression of hMMP-2 promoter activity as well as the endogenous MMP-2 mRNA levels in both human fibroblast cells and rat cardiac fibroblasts. E2 inhibits MMP-2 expression via the ER and the MAPK pathway in rat cardiac fibroblasts and in a human fibroblast cell line. These mechanisms may contribute to sex-specific differences in fibrotic processes that are observed in human heart and other diseases.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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