Hypoxia-inducible protein binding to vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA and its modulation by the von Hippel-Lindau protein - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1996 Oct 11;271(41):25492-7.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.271.41.25492.

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Hypoxia-inducible protein binding to vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA and its modulation by the von Hippel-Lindau protein

A P Levy et al. J Biol Chem. 1996.

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Abstract

Hypoxia induces an increase in the stability of the mRNA encoding vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). We have previously demonstrated that a 500-base region of the 3'-untranslated region of VEGF mRNA that is critical for stabilization of VEGF mRNA in an in vitro degradation assay forms a RNA-protein complex in a hypoxia-inducible fashion. We report here the identification of three adenylate-uridylate-rich RNA elements within this region that form an identical or closely related hypoxia-inducible RNA-protein complex. This complex is constitutively elevated in a tumor cell line lacking the wild type von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene and in which VEGF mRNA is constitutively stabilized. Furthermore, the glucose transporter-1 mRNA, which is also stabilized by hypoxia, forms a hypoxia-inducible RNA-protein complex with similar sequence and protein binding characteristics to that described for VEGF mRNA. Finally, RNA affinity purification and UV cross-linking were used to identify three proteins of 32, 28, and 17 kDa that are derived from this hypoxia-inducible RNA-protein complex.

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