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Epigenetic modification of CpG islands (CGIs) in promoter regions is an important regulatory mechanism of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. Hypermethylation of CGIs may silence a gene, whereas hypomethylation of previously methylated CGIs allows gene expression. The pattern of methylation is cell-type-specific and established during development of the organisms. Changes in the methylation pattern have been found in all cancer forms and in aging cells. The epigenetic-related alternations of gene expression status may significantly contribute to the initiation and maintenance of malignant growth. Cancer incidence increases dramatically with age and correlates strongly with age-related methylation changes. Many techniques have been developed to analyze the genome-wide methylation content and the methylation status of specific loci. The majority of methylation screening protocols utilizes methylation-sensitive endonuclease digestion or bisulfite treatment of the template followed by subsequent PCR amplification of a specific sequence. All methods either examine only one specific DNA sequence at a time, or provide limited genomic information on the screened sequences. The principle of our new approach is to combine methylation-sensitive enzyme digestion with the comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) technique to develop an array-based method to screen the entire genome for changes of methylation pattern. The new technique will serve as an efficient tool in understanding the nature of epigenetic changes and their significance to the aging process and cancer development.
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- Tomasz K Wojdacz
- The Danish Centre for Molecular Gerontology, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Boileau C, Pelletier JP, Tardif G, Fahmi H, Laufer S, Lavigne M, Martel-Pelletier J. The regulation of human MMP-13 by licofelone, an inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenases and 5-lipoxygenase, in human osteoarthritic chondrocytes is mediated by the inhibition of the p38 MAP kinase signalling pathway. Ann Rheum Dis 2005; 64:891-8. [PMID: 15498796 PMCID: PMC1755518 DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.026906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND MMP-13 is one of the most important metalloproteases (MMP) involved in osteoarthritis. Licofelone, a novel dual inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenases (COX) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), can modulate MMP-13 production in human osteoarthritis chondrocytes. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of licofelone on MMP-13 expression/production, promoter, and major MAP kinase signalling pathways and transcription factors. METHODS Human osteoarthritis chondrocytes were stimulated by interleukin 1beta (IL1beta) and treated with or without: licofelone (0.3, 1, or 3 mug/ml); NS-398 (10 muM; a specific COX-2 inhibitor); or BayX-1005 (10 muM; a specific 5-LOX inhibitor). MMP-13 synthesis was determined by specific enzyme linked immunosorbent assay, and expression by real time polymerase chain reaction. The effect of licofelone on the MMP-13 promoter was studied through transient transfection; dexamethasone (10(-7) M) was used as comparison. The effect on IL1beta induced MMP-13 signalling pathways was determined using specific ELISA for phosphorylated MAP kinases and transcription factors. RESULTS Licofelone dose dependently inhibited the IL1beta stimulated production and expression of MMP-13. NS-398 and BayX-1005 had very little effect. Licofelone also inhibited MMP-13 transcription on each of the promoter constructs used. The licofelone inhibition was comparable to that obtained with dexamethasone. Licofelone had no effect on phosphorylated p44/42 or JNK1/2; however, it decreased phosphorylated c-jun and inhibited phosphorylated p38, CREB, and AP-1 activity. CONCLUSIONS Licofelone inhibited MMP-13 production under proinflammatory conditions on human osteoarthritis chondrocytes, through inhibition of the p38/AP-1 pathway and the transcription factor CREB. This may explain some of the mechanisms whereby licofelone exerts its positive effect on osteoarthritic changes.
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- C Boileau
- Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Centre, Notre-Dame Hospital, 1560 Sherbrooke St East, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L 4M1
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Murata H, Tsuji S, Tsujii M, Sakaguchi Y, Fu HY, Kawano S, Hori M. Promoter hypermethylation silences cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and regulates growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. J Transl Med 2004; 84:1050-9. [PMID: 15156159 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) upregulation is recognized to confer advantage in progression in a wide variety of cancers, with colorectal cancer most intensively investigated. Epidemiologically, chemopreventive effects of COX-2 inhibitors have been proven on numerous cancers, but not on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although the antiapoptotic feature of COX-2 generally supports cancer cell growth, previous reports have shown that COX-2 expression, upregulated in early HCC, is downregulated in advanced HCC. Therefore, COX-2 downregulation may be somehow advantageous and specific for HCC development. However, its mechanism remains unclear. Since promoter hypermethylation often silences the gene expression, we hypothesized that the epigenetic mechanism might regulate COX-2 expression in HCC. We examined the methylation status of the Cox-2 promoter in six human HCC cell lines (Hep3B, HepG2, SK-Hep1, HuH7, PLC, and FLC-7 cells) using methylation-specific PCR. The promoter was remarkably hypermethylated in Hep3B and FLC-7 cells and moderately in HepG2 and SK-Hep1 cells, but not in HuH7 and PLC cells. In Hep3B cells, coincubation with 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, a demethylator, demethylated the promoter and upregulated COX-2 expression as well as prostaglandin E2 production dose dependently. On the other hand, no such effects were observed in HuH7 cells. Additionally, the methylator suppressed growth of Hep3B cells dose dependently, accompanied by cyclin D1 downregulation, and the growth suppression was abrogated by potent COX-2 inhibition with a COX-2 selective inhibitor celecoxib, but these responses were not found in HuH7 cells. These results indicated that cell growth was largely retarded by Cox-2 upregulation via promoter demethylation, rather than the potentially reactivated genes concurrently demethylated by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. In conclusion, promoter hypermethylation transcriptionally silences Cox-2 in HCC cells. Epigenetic alteration of Cox-2, at least in part, modulates the growth of HCC cells.
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- Hiroaki Murata
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Allied Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Cancer is a multistep process resulting from an accumulation of genetic mutations leading to dysfunction of critical genes, including tumour suppressor genes. Epigenetic changes are now also recognised as an important alternative mechanism of gene inactivation. In particular, aberrant methylation of the promoter region of a gene can lead to silencing ultimately contributing to the initiation or malignant progression of tumours. BRCA1, a breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene, is a tumour suppressor gene involved in the maintenance of genome integrity. Recent evidence for BRCA1 hypermethylation corroborates the view that this epigenetic alteration may play a determinant role in tumour suppressor silencing and possibly tumorigenesis. Here, we offer a summary of the data providing evidence for BRCA1 hypermethylation in tumours, and an investigation into the associated mechanism leading to BRCA1 silencing. We also discuss the impact of BRCA1 hypermethylation, as a form of epigenetic change, versus BRCA1 genetic mutations in tumour development.
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- Aurélie Catteau
- Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, GKT School of Medicine, 8th Floor Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK.
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Yates S, Rayner TE. Transcription factor activation in response to cutaneous injury: role of AP-1 in reepithelialization. Wound Repair Regen 2002; 10:5-15. [PMID: 11983002 DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475x.2002.10902.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Reepithelialization is the process responsible for restoring an intact epidermis following cutaneous injury. A change in the activity of keratinocytes is required for reepithelialization to occur, and this is likely to be regulated by the altered expression of effector genes, mediated by transcription factors. The injury itself provides a stimulus for transcription factor activation either directly due to mechanical stress, or via paracrine mechanisms such as the release of growth factors from damaged cells. Members of the activator protein-1 family, in particular c-fos and c-jun, have been the most widely studied wound-induced transcription factors. The signal transduction pathways linking cellular injury to activator protein-1 stimulation appear to involve an increase in intracellular Ca2+ and activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases. Given that a number of genes involved in the reepithelialization of wounds are regulated by activator protein-1, a distinct role for this transcription factor in reepithelialization is beginning to emerge. This article reviews the evidence for activator protein-1 involvement in reepithelialization, with particular focus on the activation of this transcription factor in response to wounding, the second messenger/kinase pathways involved, and the modulation of downstream genes that have the capacity to regulate keratinocyte function.
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- Samantha Yates
- Co-operative Research Centre for Tissue Growth and Repair, The University of Adelaide Department of Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia
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Scortegagna M, Galdzicki Z, Rapoport SI, Hanbauer I. Activator protein-1 DNA binding activation by hydrogen peroxide in neuronal and astrocytic primary cultures of trisomy-16 and diploid mice. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1999; 73:144-50. [PMID: 10581408 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(99)00257-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The effect of H(2)O(2) on DNA binding activity of activator protein-1 (AP-1) was studied by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) in cortical primary cultures of trisomy-16 mice and their diploid littermates. Exposure to 10 microM H(2)O(2) for 15 min elicited a greater and earlier occurring increase of AP-1 DNA binding in neuronal primary cultures of trisomy-16 mice than of diploid mice. When astrocyte-rich primary cultures were exposed to 10 microM H(2)O(2) a two-fold increase of AP-1 DNA binding activity was found in trisomy-16 and diploid mice. Supershift EMSA analysis revealed that c-jun was a component of AP-1 in neuronal and glial cultures of diploid and trisomic mice. A 15-min exposure to 10 microM H(2)O(2) increased c-jun mRNA in cortical neuronal cultures by six-fold, compared with a two-fold increase in cultured astrocytes. The results documented that H(2)O(2)-elicited activation of AP-1 DNA binding in trisomy-16 primary cultures is transcriptionally regulated. Since oxidative stress also activates various stress-inducible protein kinases that may phosphorylate AP-1 dimers, the increase of AP-1 DNA binding may, in part, be triggered by phosphorylation.
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- M Scortegagna
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Room 7N312, Bethesda, MD 20892-1674, USA
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Etienne-Manneville S, Chaverot N, Strosberg AD, Couraud PO. ICAM-1-Coupled Signaling Pathways in Astrocytes Converge to Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein Phosphorylation and TNF-α Secretion. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.2.668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In the CNS, astrocytes play a key role in immunological and inflammatory responses through ICAM-1 expression, cytokine secretion (including TNF-α), and regulation of blood-brain barrier permeability. Because ICAM-1 transduces intracellular signals in lymphocytes and endothelial cells, we investigated in the present study ICAM-1-coupled signaling pathways in astrocytes. Using rat astrocytes in culture, we report that ICAM-1 binding by specific Abs induces TNF-α secretion together with phosphorylation of the transcription factor cAMP response element-binding protein. We show that ICAM-1 binding induces cAMP accumulation and activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase extracellular signal-regulated kinase. Both pathways are responsible for cAMP response element-binding protein phosphorylation and TNF-α secretion. Moreover, these responses are partially dependent protein kinase C, which acts indirectly, as a common activator of cAMP/protein kinase A and extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathways. These results constitute the first evidence of ICAM-1 coupling to intracellular signaling pathways in glial cells and demonstrate the convergence of these pathways onto transcription factor regulation and TNF-α secretion. They strongly suggest that ICAM-1-dependent cellular adhesion to astrocytes could contribute to the inflammatory processes observed during leukocyte infiltration in the CNS.
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- Sandrine Etienne-Manneville
- *Laboratoire d’Immuno-Pharmacologie Moléculaire, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Paris VII, Paris, France; and
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- *Laboratoire d’Immuno-Pharmacologie Moléculaire, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Paris VII, Paris, France; and
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- *Laboratoire d’Immuno-Pharmacologie Moléculaire, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Paris VII, Paris, France; and
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- *Laboratoire d’Immuno-Pharmacologie Moléculaire, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Paris VII, Paris, France; and
- †Neurotech SA, Parc Club Orsay, Orsay, France
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The discovery of numerous hypermethylated promoters of tumour-suppressor genes, along with a better understanding of gene-silencing mechanisms, has moved DNA methylation from obscurity to recognition as an alternative mechanism of tumour-suppressor inactivation in cancer. Epigenetic events can also facilitate genetic damage, as illustrated by the increased mutagenicity of 5-methylcytosine and the silencing of the MLH1 mismatch repair gene by DNA methylation in colorectal tumours. We review here current mechanistic understanding of the role of DNA methylation in malignant transformation, and suggest Knudson's two-hit hypothesis should now be expanded to include epigenetic mechanisms of gene inactivation.
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- P A Jones
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, The Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
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de Capoa A, Febbo FR, Giovannelli F, Niveleau A, Zardo G, Marenzi S, Caiafa P. Reduced levels of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation result in chromatin compaction and hypermethylation as shown by cell-by-cell computer-assisted quantitative analysis. FASEB J 1999; 13:89-93. [PMID: 9872933 DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.1.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The unmethylated status of the CpG islands is important for gene expression of correlated housekeeping genes since it is well known that their methylation inhibits transcription process. An interesting question that has been discussed but not solved is how the CpG islands maintain their characteristic unmethylated status even though they are rich in CpG dinucleotides. Our previous in vitro and in vivo research has shown that poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is involved in protecting CpG dinucleotides from full methylation in genomic DNA and that a block of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is also involved in modifying the methylation pattern in the promoter region of Htf9 housekeeping gene. In this study we locked for cytological evidence that in the absence of an active poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation the DNA methylation pattern in L929 and NIH/3T3 mouse fibroblast cell lines is altered. For this purpose, differences in the methylation levels of interphase nuclei from control and treated cultures of two murine cell lines preincubated with 2 mM 3-aminobenzamide, an inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, were measured in individual cells after indirect immunolabeling with anti-5MeC antibodies. The quantitative analysis allowed us to demonstrate that blocking of the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation results in a higher number, size, and density of antibody binding regions in treated cells when compared to the controls. Analogously, sequential Giemsa staining and indirect immunolabeling of the same slides showed the heterochromatic regions colocalized with the extended methyl-rich domains.
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- A de Capoa
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Rome La Sapienza Rome, Italy
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Zardo G, Caiafa P. The unmethylated state of CpG islands in mouse fibroblasts depends on the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation process. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:16517-20. [PMID: 9632720 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.26.16517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In vivo and in vitro experiments carried out on L929 mouse fibroblasts suggested that the poly(ADP-ribosyl) ation process acts somehow as a protecting agent against full methylation of CpG dinucleotides in genomic DNA. Since CpG islands, which are found almost exclusively at the 5'-end of housekeeping genes, are rich in CpG dinucleotides, which are the target of mammalian DNA methyltransferase, we examined the possibility that the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation reaction is involved in maintaining the unmethylated state of these DNA sequences. Experiments were conducted by two different strategies, using either methylation-dependent restriction enzymes on purified genomic DNA or a sequence-dependent restriction enzyme on an aliquot of the same DNA, previously modified by a bisulfite reaction. With the methylation-dependent restriction enzymes, it was observed that the "HpaII tiny fragments" greatly decreased when the cells were preincubated with 3-aminobenzamide, a well known inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. The other experimental approach allowed us to prove that, as a consequence of the inhibition of the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation process, an anomalous methylation pattern could be evidenced in the CpG island of the promoter fragment of the Htf9 gene, amplified from DNA obtained from fibroblasts preincubated with 3-aminobenzamide. These data confirm the hypothesis that, at least for the Htf9 promoter region, an active poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation protects the unmethylated state of the CpG island.
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- G Zardo
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of L'Aquila, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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Wilmer WA, Cosio FG. DNA binding of activator protein-1 is increased in human mesangial cells cultured in high glucose concentrations. Kidney Int 1998; 53:1172-81. [PMID: 9573531 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00888.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Human mesangial cells (HMC) grown in high glucose environments synthesize excessive amounts of extracellular matrix proteins (ECM). The promoter regions of certain ECM genes contain TPA (phorbol ester)-responsive element (TRE) motifs that bind the transcription factor, activator protein-1 (AP-1), a complex of Jun and other phosphoproteins. AP-1 binding to the TRE promoter is regulated by the quantity, composition and post-translational modifications of proteins in the AP-1 complex. We report an increased binding of AP-1 to TRE oligonucleotides in HMC cultured chronically (5 days) in high glucose environments (30 mM d-glucose). This increased binding is not due to differences in the nuclear quantity of AP-1 proteins or in the composition of the AP-1 complex when compared to AP-1 proteins from cells grown in normal glucose (5 mM d-glucose). A 30 mM l-glucose environment also increased AP-1 binding, but to a degree less than d-glucose. The increased AP-1 binding was partly reversed by treatment of HMC with Calphostin C or Bisindolylmaleimide I suggesting a partial role of the protein kinase C (PKC) pathway in mediating AP-1 binding. AP-1 binding was unaffected by treatment of cells with the MEK inhibitor PD 98059. In addition, increased AP-1 binding persisted for at least 48 hours after media glucose concentrations were normalized. The level of Jun-NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) activity and the phosphorylation of the JNK kinase, SEK1, were unchanged by chronic high glucose concentrations. These studies suggest that in HMC cultured in chronic high glucose, post-translational modifications increase the binding of AP-1 to the TRE motif.
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- W A Wilmer
- Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
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We determined the genomic structure of the gene encoding human DNA methyltransferase (DNA MTase). Six overlapping human genomic DNA clones which include all of the known cDNA sequence were isolated. Analysis of these clones demonstrates that the human DNA MTase gene consists of at least 40 exons and 39 introns spanning a distance of 60 kilobases. Elucidation of the chromosomal organization of the human DNA MTase gene provides the template for future structure-function analysis of the properties of mammalian DNA MTase.
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- S Ramchandani
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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McCarty MF. A central role for protein kinase C overactivity in diabetic glomerulosclerosis: implications for prevention with antioxidants, fish oil, and ACE inhibitors. Med Hypotheses 1998; 50:155-65. [PMID: 9572571 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-9877(98)90202-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The primary etiologic factor in diabetic glomerulosclerosis appears to be an overproduction of transforming growth factor-beta by mesangial cells, which in turn reflects a hyperglycemically mediated overactivation of protein kinase C (PKC) throughout the glomerulus. Membrane-active antioxidants, fish oil, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors can act to down-regulate glomerular PKC activity, via a variety of mechanisms that may include activation of diacylglycerol kinase and suppression of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, support of endothelial nitric oxide and heparan sulfate production, inhibition of thromboxane and angiotensin synthesis/activity, and correction of glomerular hypertension. The beneficial impact of these measures on vascular endothelial function may be of more general utility in the prevention of diabetic complications such as retinopathy, neuropathy, and atherosclerosis. Adjunctive use of gamma-linolenic acid is indicated for prevention of neuropathy, and it is conceivable that bioactive chromium will have protective activity not solely attributable to improved glycemic control. Re-establishing euglycemia must clearly remain the core strategy for preventing diabetic complications, but when glycemic control remains suboptimal, practical, safe measures are at hand for decreasing risk.
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Sakurai H, Shigemori N, Hisada Y, Ishizuka T, Kawashima K, Sugita T. Suppression of NF-kappa B and AP-1 activation by glucocorticoids in experimental glomerulonephritis in rats: molecular mechanisms of anti-nephritic action. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1362:252-62. [PMID: 9540856 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(97)00068-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Transcription factors nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) and activator protein-1 (AP-1) play an important role in the induction of pro-inflammatory factors such as cytokines and cell adhesion molecules, which could be involved in the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis. We have recently reported the pathogenic significance of NF-kappa B activation in experimental glomerulonephritis in rats. In this study, we investigated the pathogenic relevance of AP-1 activation in nephrotoxic serum (NTS)-induced glomerulonephritis. Increased AP-1 DNA-binding activity was detected in nephritic glomeruli by a gel shift assay. The kinetics of AP-1 activation was similar to that of NF-kappa B. Activation of both NF-kappa B and AP-1 preceded proteinuria, an important pathophysiological parameter for glomerulonephritis. Treatment with prednisolone, a glucocorticoid hormone, prevented activation of both NF-kappa B and AP-1 in glomeruli and subsequent mRNA expression of NF-kappa B- and AP-1-regulated genes. Prednisolone was also effective therapeutically and reduced DNA-binding activities of NF-kappa B and AP-1 which are already activated in nephritic glomeruli. These results suggest that activated NF-kappa B and AP-1 may play an important pathogenic role in glomerulonephritis and the anti-nephritic action of glucocorticoids may be mediated through the suppression of these transcription factors.
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- H Sakurai
- Lead Generation Research Laboratory, Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan
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Le Tulzo Y, Shenkar R, Kaneko D, Moine P, Fantuzzi G, Dinarello CA, Abraham E. Hemorrhage increases cytokine expression in lung mononuclear cells in mice: involvement of catecholamines in nuclear factor-kappaB regulation and cytokine expression. J Clin Invest 1997; 99:1516-24. [PMID: 9119995 PMCID: PMC507971 DOI: 10.1172/jci119314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The expression of proinflammatory and immunoregulatory cytokines rapidly increases in the lungs after hemorrhage, and such alterations contribute to the frequent development of acute inflammatory lung injury in this setting. Blood loss also produces elevations in catecholamine concentrations in the pulmonary and systemic circulation. In the present experiments, we used alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor blockade to examine in vivo interactions between hemorrhage-induced adrenergic stimulation and pulmonary cytokine expression. Treatment of mice with the alpha-adrenergic receptor antagonist phentolamine prevented not only the elevation in mRNA levels of IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, and TGF-beta1, the increase in IL-1beta protein, but also the activation of nuclear factor (NF)-KB and cyclic AMP response element binding protein, which occurred in lung cells of untreated animals during the first hour after hemorrhage. In contrast, treatment before hemorrhage with the beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol was associated with increases in mRNA levels for IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, and TGF-beta1, which were greater than those present in untreated hemorrhaged mice, and did not prevent hemorrhage-associated increases in lung IL-1beta protein. Treatment with propranolol prevented hemorrhage-induced phosphorylation of cyclic AMP response element binding protein, but increased hemorrhage-associated activation of NF-KB. These results demonstrate that hemorrhage initially increases pulmonary cytokine expression through alpha- but not beta-adrenergic stimulation, and suggest that such alpha-adrenergic-mediated effects occur through activation of the transcriptional regulatory factor NF-kappaB.
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- Y Le Tulzo
- Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA
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Wolf G, Ziyadeh FN, Zahner G, Stahl RA. Angiotensin II-stimulated expression of transforming growth factor beta in renal proximal tubular cells: attenuation after stable transfection with the c-mas oncogene. Kidney Int 1995; 48:1818-27. [PMID: 8587241 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1995.480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Angiotensin II (Ang II) stimulates cellular hypertrophy of cultured murine proximal tubular cells (MCT cells). This Ang II-mediated hypertrophy depends on the endogenous induction and autocrine action of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). We have previously demonstrated that permanent transfection of MCT cells with the c-mas oncogene, whose protein product encodes a serpentine receptor-like moiety coupled to G proteins without an hitherto identified ligand, changes the hypertrophic actions of Ang II into a proliferative response (Am J Physiol 263: F931-F938, 1992). The present study demonstrated that Ang II failed to stimulate induction of TGF-beta 1 protein in c-mas transfected MCT cells under the control of SV 40 promoter/enhancer (pSV2mas) as measured by mink cell bioassay and specific ELISA for TGF-beta 1. Moreover, in contrast to either wild-type MCT cells or to cells permanently transfected with the SV 40 based expression plasmid only (pSV2 cells), Ang II stimulated gene transcription and mRNA expression of TGF-beta 1 were decreased in c-mas transfected cells. Our findings demonstrate that the Ang II-induced proliferation of c-mas transfected MCT cells most likely depends on failure of TGF-beta 1 induction in these cells. c-mas transfected cells are a useful tool to further investigate the complex relationships between activation of second messengers subsequent to binding of Ang II to AT1-receptors and gene regulation like transcription of TGF-beta 1.
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- G Wolf
- Department of Medicine, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Zhang XY, Ni YS, Saifudeen Z, Asiedu CK, Supakar PC, Ehrlich M. Increasing binding of a transcription factor immediately downstream of the cap site of a cytomegalovirus gene represses expression. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:3026-33. [PMID: 7659527 PMCID: PMC307145 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.15.3026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A closely related family of ubiquitous DNA binding proteins, called MDBP, binds with high affinity to two 14 base pair (bp) sites within the human cytomegalovirus immediate early gene 1 (CMV IE1) enhancer and with low affinity to one site beginning 5 bp downstream of the CMV IE1 transcription start point (+5 site). Unlike several cap position downstream MDBP sites in mammalian genes, these MDBP sites do not require cytosine methylation for optimal binding. Mutation of one of the enhancer MDBP sites to prevent MDBP recognition modestly increased the function of a neighboring CREB binding site in a transient transfection assay in the context of one promoter construct. A much larger effect on reporter gene expression (a 10-fold reduction) was seen when the low affinity MDBP recognition sequence at position +5 was converted to a high affinity site in a plasmid containing the CMV IE1 promoter upstream of the reporter gene. Evidence that the increased binding of MDBP at the mutant site is largely responsible for the observed results was provided by transfection experiments with this high affinity MDBP +5 site re-mutated to a non-binding site and by in vitro transcription assay.
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- X Y Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry, Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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