Immediate-early MEK-1-dependent Stabilization of Rat Smooth Muscle Cell Cyclooxygenase-2 mRNA by Gαq-coupled Receptor Signaling

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Abstract

Activation of Galpha(q)-coupled P2Y nucleotide receptors strongly (>100-fold) induces the rat vascular smooth muscle cell cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) mRNA, yet transcription is induced only approximately 3-fold over 1 h. Intact cell decay analysis of tetracycline-suppressible luciferase chimera mRNAs shows that regulated stabilization of the intrinsically unstable mRNA contributes to this response. Deletion mapping of the 2468-base COX-2 mRNA 3'-untranslated region (UTR) shows that a distal, 130-base AU-rich region functions as a cis-acting regulated stabilization response element, which under basal conditions serves as the dominant instability determinant for the 3'-UTR. Regulation of this response is through the p42/44 MAP kinases, whereas the p38 MAP kinases are not involved. The stabilization response element binds avidly and specifically to a prominent nuclear-enriched approximately 90-kDa factor and several less abundantly labeled mRNA binding proteins that are unaffected by P2Y receptor signaling. Although other instability determinants are located throughout the rat COX-2 mRNA 3'-UTR, mitogen signaling only interferes with rapid decay mediated by its most distal 130 bases. A complex of nuclear factors that bind this mRNA region specifically may include candidate targets for regulatory modulation. These observations support the general notion that the rapid induction of immediate-early gene expression through mitogenic receptors involves simultaneous activation of transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms.

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