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—The application of mechanical strain to cultured cardiac myocytes in vitro leads to activation of the brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) gene promoter, a marker of cardiac hypertrophy. We have previously shown that this activation results from both a direct mechanostimulatory event and an indirect autocrine/paracrine stimulation involving the sequential production of angiotensin II and endothelin (ET). In the present study, we examined the role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) in signaling the increase in promoter activity trafficking through each of these pathways. ET was shown to stimulate both p38 MAPK and ERK activity in these cultures and to activate human BNP (hBNP) promoter activity. Activation of the promoter was inhibited ≈45% by SB-203580, a p38 MAPK inhibitor, and ≈70% by PD98059, an inhibitor of the ERK-activating kinase MAPK kinase. The ET-independent (ie, direct) stimulation of the hBNP promoter by mechanical strain was inhibited ≈70% by SB-203580 and ≈60% by PD98059, implying that similar signaling circuitry is used, albeit to different degrees, by the direct and indirect pathways. The p38 MAPK component of both the ET-dependent and the ET-independent responses to strain appears to operate through a series of nuclear factor-κB binding, shear stress response element–like structures in the hBNP gene promoter. Collectively, these data suggest that activation of the BNP promoter by hypertrophic stimuli involves the participation of several independent signaling pathways. Such redundancy would help to guarantee generation of the full hypertrophic phenotype independently of the nature of the hypertrophic stimulus.

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Endothelin-Dependent and -Independent Components of Strain-Activated Brain Natriuretic Peptide Gene Transcription Require Extracellular Signal Regulated Kinase and p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase