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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a well-known promoter of angiogenesis, but its receptor VEGFR-1 and a soluble short form of VEGFR-1 (sFlt-1) play a negative role in the VEGF signal pathway by trapping VEGF. We recently showed that endogenous prostacyclin inhibitor coupling factor 6 (CF6) forces the clockwise rotation of F(1) motor of plasma membrane adenosine triphosphate synthase and induces intracellular acidosis and c-Src activation. We investigated the role of CF6 in regulation of sFlt-1, and its mechanism in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. The ratio of sFlt-1 to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA was increased at 24 h by 1.59+/-0.29-fold by 10(-7) M CF6 (P&lt;0.05), concomitantly with the increases in intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and lectin-like oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor-1 and no change in VEGF-A. When the dose of CF6 was increased to 10(-6) M, no further increase in sFlt-1 mRNA was observed. The release of sFlt-1 protein was increased by 1.72+/-0.24-fold (P&lt;0.05) at 48 h after exposure to CF6 at 10(-7) M, and it was blocked by pretreatment with anti-CF6 antibody. The immunoreactive bands for sFlt-1 and VEGFR-1 were both increased by CF6 to similar degrees. Pretreatment with PP1, an inhibitor of c-Src, and 10(-5) Mefrapeptin, an inhibitor of F(1) motor, inhibited CF6-induced increases in expression and release of sFlt-1 (P&lt;0.05). In mice overexpressing CF6, the plasma level of sFlt-1 was increased by 1.36+/-0.29-fold compared with that in wild-type mice (P&lt;0.05). These indicate that CF6 might increase the expression and release of sFlt-1 in the vessels through acidosis-induced c-Src activation.

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Upregulation of soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor type 1 by endogenous prostacyclin inhibitor coupling factor 6 in vascular endothelial cells: a role of acidosis-induced c-Src activation