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(Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 1997;17:2609-2616.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Thrombin Stimulates Syndecan-1 Promotor Activity and Expression of a Form of Syndecan-1 That Binds Antithrombin III in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Gunay Cizmeci-Smith; ; David J. Carey

From the Henry Hood MD Research Program, Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research, Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Danville, Pa.

Correspondence to G. Cizmeci-Smith, Penn State College of Medicine, 26–13, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Danville, PA 17822-2613.

Abstract Vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells express transmembrane proteoglycans of the syndecan gene family. We reported previously that the expression of syndecans by VSM cells is regulated by mitogens such as serum, platelet-derived growth factor, and basic fibroblast growth factor and that syndecan expression is induced after balloon injury in vivo. We now show that thrombin is a potent inducer of syndecan-1 expression in VSM cells. Transient transfection experiments with a rat syndecan-1 promoter construct demonstrated that thrombin stimulates transcription of the syndecan-1 gene. Syndecan expression in response to thrombin was not inhibited by downregulation of protein kinase C. Thrombin-induced syndecan-1 expression was dependent on tyrosine kinase activity. Calcium was necessary for syndecan-1 expression, but increasing the intracellular calcium levels was not sufficient to induce syndecan-1 expression. Analysis of antithrombin III (AT III) binding activity revealed that thrombin caused an increase in the synthesis of syndecan-1 molecules that exhibited high-affinity AT III binding. These results suggest that VSM cells could play an important role in controlling local thrombus formation subsequent to vascular injury, via a feedback mechanism that involves thrombin-induced stimulation of an inhibitor of thrombin activity.

Key Words: heparan sulfate proteoglycans • syndecan • thrombin • smooth muscle cells • antithrombin III

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