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Perra L, Balloy V, Foussignière T, Moissenet D, Petat H, Mungrue IN, Touqui L, Corvol H, Chignard M, Guillot L. CHAC1 Is Differentially Expressed in Normal and Cystic Fibrosis Bronchial Epithelial Cells and Regulates the Inflammatory Response Induced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2823. [PMID: 30555487 PMCID: PMC6282009 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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In cystic fibrosis (CF), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) colonizes the lungs, leading to chronic inflammation of the bronchial epithelium. ChaC glutathione-specific γ-glutamylcyclotransferase 1 (CHAC1) mRNA is differentially expressed in primary human airway epithelial cells from bronchi (hAECBs) from patients with CF and healthy patients at baseline and upon infection with Pa. CHAC1 degrades glutathione and is associated with ER stress and apoptosis pathways. In this study, we examined the roles of CHAC1 in the inflammatory response and apoptosis in lung epithelial cells. First, we confirmed by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction that CHAC1 mRNA was overexpressed in hAECBs from patients without CF compared with the expression in hAECBs from patients with CF upon Pa (PAK strain) infection. Moreover, the Pa virulence factors LPS and flagellin were shown to induce CHAC1 expression in cells from patients without CF. Using NCI-H292 lung epithelial cells, we found that LPS-induced CHAC1 mRNA expression was PERK-independent and involved ATF4. Additionally, using CHAC1 small interfering RNA, we showed that reduced CHAC1 expression in the context of LPS and flagellin stimulation was associated with modulation of inflammatory markers and alteration of NF-κB signaling. Finally, we showed that Pa was not able to induce apoptosis in NCI-H292 cells. Our results suggest that CHAC1 is involved in the regulation of inflammation in bronchial cells during Pa infection and may explain the excessive inflammation present in the respiratory tracts of patients with CF.
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- Léa Perra
- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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- Department of Bacteriology, APHP, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States
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- Equipe mixte Institut Pasteur/Paris V "Mucoviscidose et Bronchopathies Chroniques" Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France.,Pneumologie Pédiatrique, APHP, Hôpital Trousseau, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France
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Luo Y, Zheng SG. Hall of Fame among Pro-inflammatory Cytokines: Interleukin-6 Gene and Its Transcriptional Regulation Mechanisms. Front Immunol 2016; 7:604. [PMID: 28066415 PMCID: PMC5165036 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Pro-inflammatory cytokines that are generated by immune system cells and mediate many kinds of immune responses are kinds of endogenous polypeptides. They are also the effectors of the autoimmune system. It is generally accepted that interleukin (IL)-4, IL-6, IL-9, IL-17, and tumor necrosis factor-α are pro-inflammatory cytokines; however, IL-6 becomes a protagonist among them since it predominately induces pro-inflammatory signaling and regulates massive cellular processes. It has been ascertained that IL-6 is associated with a large number of diseases with inflammatory background, such as anemia of chronic diseases, angiogenesis acute-phase response, bone metabolism, cartilage metabolism, and multiple cancers. Despite great progress in the relative field, the targeted regulation of IL-6 response for therapeutic benefits remains incompletely to be understood. Therefore, it is conceivable that understanding mechanisms of IL-6 from the perspective of gene regulation can better facilitate to determine the pathogenesis of the disease, providing more solid scientific basis for clinical treatment translation. In this review, we summarize the candidate genes that have been implicated in clinical target therapy from the perspective of gene transcription regulation.
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- Yang Luo
- Department of Clinical Immunology of the Third Affiliated Hospital at the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Immunology of the Third Affiliated Hospital at the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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Onozaki K. [Interluekin-1: from regulation of cell proliferation to chronic inflammatory diseases]. YAKUGAKU ZASSHI 2013; 133:645-60. [PMID: 23728092 DOI: 10.1248/yakushi.13-00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Interleukin 1 (IL-1) was initially defined as a factor which is produced by macrophages and exhibits proliferative activity on thymocytes and fibroblasts, B cell activation and endogenous pyrogen activity. Now IL-1 is known to exhibit pleiotropic activities on various cell types and play important roles in the regulation of immune, nervous and endocrine systems, progression of tumor cells, hematopoietic cell proliferation/differentiation and especially in inflammatory diseases. In 1985 I found that IL-1 exhibits cytocidal activity against human melanoma cells. Since then I have been engaged in the research of various aspects of IL-1. This review summarizes current knowledge of IL-1, including our research and beneficial effect of IL-1 blocking on inflammatory diseases.
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- Kikuo Onozaki
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 3-1 Tanabe-dori, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8603, Japan.
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The glucosamine-mediated induction of CHOP reduces the expression of inflammatory cytokines by modulating JNK and NF-κB in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Genes Genomics 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03191197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cucinotta M, Visalli M, Aguennouz M, Valenti A, Loddo S, Altucci L, Teti D. Regulation of interleukin-8 gene at a distinct site of its promoter by CCAAT enhancer-binding protein homologous protein in prostaglandin E2-treated human T cells. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:29760-9. [PMID: 18772138 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803145200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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For a long period of time, the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homologous protein (CHOP) has been thought to inhibit transcriptional activity for its ability to interact with CCAAT enhancer-binding protein family factors, thus preventing their binding to DNA. We have previously shown that in human T lymphocytes the CHOP phosphorylation induced by prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2))-increased interleukin-8 (IL-8) gene expression. Given the CHOP positive role in the regulation of transcription, here we have investigated the molecular mechanism(s) by which CHOP increases IL-8 gene activity under PGE(2) stimulus. Transfection experiments with mutants showed both that the CHOP transactivation domain is essential for IL-8 transcription and that the IL-8/activator protein 1 (AP-1) promoter mutated in NF-kappaB and NF-IL-6, but not in the AP-1 site, harbors essential CHOP-responsive elements. CHOP silencing confirmed its role in the IL-8 transcriptional regulation and protein production, whereas c-Jun small interfering RNA experiments showed that the PGE(2)-induced activation of IL-8 promoter is mainly c-Jun-independent. Moreover, PGE(2) induced CHOP-DNA complexes only when the entire IL-8/AP-1 promoter or the wild type sequences encompassing the AP-1 upstream region were employed. Mutations introduced in these sequences prevented the DNA-CHOP complex formation. The IL-8/AP-1 mutant promoter lacking the sequence immediately upstream the AP-1 site is PGE(2)-unresponsive. Finally, chromatin immunoprecipitation data confirmed in vivo that PGE(2) induces CHOP binding to the IL-8 promoter. Taken together, our results suggest that the increased expression of CHOP in response to PGE(2) exerts a positive transcriptional regulation of the IL-8 promoter mediated by direct binding to a novel consensus site.
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- Maria Cucinotta
- Department of Experimental Pathology and Microbiology, University of Messina, Messina 98100, Italy
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Ohoka N, Yoshii S, Hattori T, Onozaki K, Hayashi H. TRB3, a novel ER stress-inducible gene, is induced via ATF4-CHOP pathway and is involved in cell death. EMBO J 2005; 24:1243-55. [PMID: 15775988 PMCID: PMC556400 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 767] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2004] [Accepted: 02/03/2005] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) is a stress-inducible nuclear protein that is crucial for the development of programmed cell death and regeneration; however, the regulation of its function has not been well characterized. Slbo, a Drosophila homolog of C/EBP (CCAAT/enhancer binding protein), was shown to be unstabilized by tribbles. Here, we identified TRB3 as a tribbles ortholog in humans, which associated with CHOP to suppress the CHOP-dependent transactivation. TRB3 is induced by various forms endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress later than CHOP. Tunicamycin treatment enhanced the TRB3 promoter activity, while dominant-negative forms of CHOP suppressed the tunicamycin-induced activation. In addition, the tunicamycin response region in the TRB3 promoter contains amino-acid response elements overlapping the CHOP-binding site, and CHOP and ATF4 cooperated to activate this promoter activity. Knockdown of endogenous ATF4 or CHOP expression dramatically repressed tunicamycin-induced TRB3 induction. Furthermore, knockdown of TRB3 expression decreased ER stress-dependent cell death. These results indicate that TRB3 is a novel target of CHOP/ATF4 and downregulates its own induction by repression of CHOP/ATF4 functions, and that it is involved in CHOP-dependent cell death during ER stress.
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- Nobumichi Ohoka
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
- Department of Biochemistry 1, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 3-1 Tanabe-dori, Mizuo-ku, Nagoya 467-8603, Japan. Tel./Fax: +81 52 836 3420; E-mail:
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Caristi S, Piraino G, Cucinotta M, Valenti A, Loddo S, Teti D. Prostaglandin E2 induces interleukin-8 gene transcription by activating C/EBP homologous protein in human T lymphocytes. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:14433-42. [PMID: 15659384 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m410725200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The effect of prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) in regulating the synthesis of the pro-inflammatory chemokine interleukin-8 (IL-8) in T lymphocytes is not yet defined, even though it may reduce or enhance IL-8 synthesis in other cell types. Here, we demonstrate that, in human T cells, PGE(2) induced IL-8 mRNA transcription through prostaglandin E(2) receptors 1- and 4-dependent signal transduction pathways leading to the activation of the transcription factor C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP), never before implicated in IL-8 transcription. Several kinases, including protein kinase C, Src family tyrosine kinases, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and p38 MAPK, were involved in PGE(2)-induced CHOP activation and IL-8 production. The transactivation of the IL-8 promoter by CHOP was NF-kappaB-independent. Our data suggest that PGE(2) acts as a potent pro-inflammatory mediator by inducing IL-8 gene transcription in activated T cells through different signal transduction pathways leading to CHOP activation. These findings show the complexity with which PGE(2) regulates IL-8 synthesis by inhibiting or enhancing its production depending on the cell types and environmental conditions.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Blotting, Western
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- CD28 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Densitometry
- Dinoprostone/physiology
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Humans
- Inflammation
- Interleukin-8/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-8/metabolism
- Jurkat Cells
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Models, Biological
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism
- Phosphorylation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Kinase C/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E/chemistry
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E, EP1 Subtype
- Receptors, Prostaglandin E, EP4 Subtype
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Signal Transduction
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Transcription Factor CHOP
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism
- src-Family Kinases/metabolism
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- Silvana Caristi
- Department of Experimental Pathology and Microbiology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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Inoue Y, Kitagawa M, Onozaki K, Hayashi H. Contribution of the Constitutive and Inducible Degradation of Smad3 by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway to Transforming Growth Factor-βSignaling. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2004; 24:43-54. [PMID: 14980084 DOI: 10.1089/107999004772719909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Smad proteins are crucial for the intracellular signaling of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). After receptor-induced activation, Smad proteins are phosphorylated and translocated to the nucleus to activate transcription of a select set of target genes. Here, we investigated the turnover of Smad3, positively regulating Smad for TGF-beta signaling. In a steady state, the inhibition of proteasome activity leads to stabilization of Smad3 protein. Smad proteins are multi-ubiquitinated and degraded independently of the phosphorylation induced by the TGF-beta receptors. Moreover, the degradation of Smad3 was enhanced by treatment with TGF-beta, and phosphorylated Smad3 was accumulated on proteasome inhibition. Ubiquitination of phosphorylated Smad3 but not Smad3(3SA), a receptor-mediated phosphorylation-incompetent mutant, was observed in the nucleus after treatment with TGF-beta. These findings suggest that, in a steady state, Smad3 is constitutively degraded via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in the cytoplasm and that, in response to TGF-beta, it is phosphorylated and translocated into the nucleus, where it is degraded through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
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- Yasumichi Inoue
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Nagoya 467-8603, Japan
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Hattori T, Ohoka N, Hayashi H, Onozaki K. C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) up-regulates IL-6 transcription by trapping negative regulating NF-IL6 isoform. FEBS Lett 2003; 541:33-9. [PMID: 12706815 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00283-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Interleukin-6 (IL-6) production is up-regulated by several stimuli through the activation of transcription factors. We have previously demonstrated that CCAAT/enhancer binding protein homologous protein (CHOP) positively regulates IL-6 production at the transcriptional level in the human melanoma cell line A375. In this study, we provide evidence that CHOP up-regulates the IL-6 transcription without binding to the IL-6 promoter. CHOP dimerized more preferentially with an inhibitory isoform of nuclear factor for IL-6 expression (LIP (liver-enriched inhibitory protein)) than with a positively acting isoform (LAP, liver-enriched activator protein). These results indicate that CHOP plays an important role in IL-6 production without binding to its promoter, probably by trapping protein(s) such as LIP, which would otherwise inhibit IL-6 transcription.
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- Takayuki Hattori
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Mizuho, Japan
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Hattori T, Ohoka N, Inoue Y, Hayashi H, Onozaki K. C/EBP family transcription factors are degraded by the proteasome but stabilized by forming dimer. Oncogene 2003; 22:1273-80. [PMID: 12618752 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1206204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) family transcription factors are critical for transcription of several genes involved in tissue development and cellular function, proliferation, and differentiation. Here we show that inhibitory/regulatory C/EBP family proteins, Ig/EBP (C/EBPgamma) and CHOP (C/EBPzeta), but not positively functioning NF-IL6 (C/EBPbeta), are constitutively multiubiquitinated and subsequently degraded by the proteasome. In addition, ubiquitination and degradation of these proteins are suppressed by forming dimer through their leucine zipper domains. Deletion of leucine zipper domain in NF-IL6 caused the loss of its homodimerization activity and the degradation of protein by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. In addition, Ig/EBP with its leucine zipper domain substituted for that of NF-IL6 formed homodimer and was stabilized. These observations suggest that mammalian cells equip a novel regulatory system abrogating the excess C/EBP family transcription factors bereft of dimerizing partner.
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Affiliation(s)
- Takayuki Hattori
- Department of Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya University, Mizuho, Japan
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