Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: EC:3.4.25.1 (proteasome)
28,817 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) mediates signaling from the insulin-like growth factor type-I receptor. We found that all-trans retinoic acid (RA) decreases IRS-1 protein levels in MCF-7, T47-D, and ZR75.1 breast cancer cells, which are growth arrested by RA, but not in the RA-resistant MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells. Based on prior reports of ubiquitin-mediated degradation of IRS-1, we investigated the ubiquitination of IRS-1 in RA-treated breast cancer cells. Two proteasome inhibitors, MG-132 and lactacystin, blocked the RA-mediated degradation of IRS-1, and RA increased ubiquitination of IRS-1 in the RA-sensitive breast cancer cells. In addition, we found that RA increases serine phosphorylation of IRS-1. To elucidate the signaling pathway responsible for this phosphorylation event, pharmacologic inhibitors were used. Two PKC inhibitors, but not a MAPK inhibitor, blocked the RA-induced degradation and serine phosphorylation of IRS-1. We demonstrate that RA activates PKC-delta in the sensitive, but not in the resistant cells, with a time course that is consistent with the RA-induced decrease of IRS-1. We also show that: (1) RA-activated PKC-delta phosphorylates IRS-1 in vitro, (2) PKC-delta and IRS-1 interact in RA-treated cells, and (3) mutation of three PKC-delta serine sites in IRS-1 to alanines results in no RA-induced in vitro phosphorylation of IRS-1. Together, these results indicate that RA regulates IRS-1 levels by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, involving a PKC-sensitive mechanism.
...
PMID:Retinoic acid mediates degradation of IRS-1 by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, via a PKC-dependant mechanism. 1551 86

Chronic heart failure is a clinical syndrome of cardiac origin, which affects various organ systems. It is associated with metabolic abnormalities leading to a catabolic syndrome in advanced stages of the disease. As in several other chronic diseases, skeletal muscle dysfunction and structural muscle abnormalities result in progressive muscle wasting and cachexia. These changes are accompanied by increased expression of proinflammatory cytokines, increased rate of apoptosis and activation of the proteolytic ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Further, reduced expression of the local anabolic insulin-like growth factor-1 has been demonstrated in skeletal muscle of animals and patients with chronic heart failure. This suppression occurs in the presence of normal serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1. In addition to catabolic effects of proinflammatory cytokines, these recent findings are consistent with reduced anabolism involving altered local insulin-like growth factor-1 levels in progressive muscle atrophy in chronic heart failure. This article describes local effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 on skeletal muscle function and morphology, its role in stem cell recruitment and muscle regeneration as well as its regulation in circumstances of muscle inflammation and wasting.
...
PMID:Insulin-like growth factor-1 and muscle wasting in chronic heart failure. 1596 37

Metabolic abnormalities develop in various chronic diseases and lead to progressive catabolism with decrements in the skeletal musculature that result in muscle atrophy. We investigated pathways of skeletal muscle proteolysis using an experimental model of chronic left-ventricular dysfunction. Skeletal muscle atrophy developed in wild-type mice 12 weeks following myocardial infarction accompanied by an increase in total protein ubiquitination and enhanced proteasome activity, activation of Foxo transcription factors, and robust induction of the ubiquitin-protein ligase atrogin-1/MAFbx. Further studies identified skeletal muscle myosin as a specific target of ubiquitin-mediated degradation in muscle atrophy. In contrast, transgenic overexpression of a local isoform of insulin-like growth factor-1 prevented muscle atrophy and increased proteasome activity, inhibited skeletal muscle activation primarily of Foxo4, and blocked the expression of atrogin-1/MAFbx. These results suggest that skeletal muscle atrophy occurs through increased activity of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The inhibition of muscle atrophy by local insulin-like growth factor-1 provides a promising therapeutic avenue for the prevention of skeletal muscle wasting in chronic heart failure and potentially other chronic diseases associated with skeletal muscle atrophy.
...
PMID:Transgenic overexpression of locally acting insulin-like growth factor-1 inhibits ubiquitin-mediated muscle atrophy in chronic left-ventricular dysfunction. 1614 Nov 15

The ability of angiotensin I (Ang I) and II (Ang II) to induce directly protein degradation in skeletal muscle has been studied in murine myotubes. Angiotensin I stimulated protein degradation with a parabolic dose-response curve and with a maximal effect between 0.05 and 0.1 microM. The effect was attenuated by coincubation with the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor imidaprilat, suggesting that angiotensin I stimulated protein degradation through conversion to Ang II. Angiotensin II also stimulated protein breakdown with a similar dose-response curve, and with a maximal effect between 1 and 2.5 microM. Total protein degradation, induced by both Ang I and Ang II, was attenuated by the proteasome inhibitors lactacystin (5 microM) and MG132 (10 microM), suggesting that the effect was mediated through upregulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome proteolytic pathway. Both Ang I and Ang II stimulated an increased proteasome 'chymotrypsin-like' enzyme activity as well as an increase in protein expression of 20S proteasome alpha-subunits, the 19S subunits MSS1 and p42, at the same concentrations as those inducing protein degradation. The effect of Ang I was attenuated by imidaprilat, confirming that it arose from conversion to Ang II. These results suggest that Ang II stimulates protein degradation in myotubes through induction of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Protein degradation induced by Ang II was inhibited by insulin-like growth factor and by the polyunsaturated fatty acid, eicosapentaenoic acid. These results suggest that Ang II has the potential to cause muscle atrophy through an increase in protein degradation. The highly lipophilic ACE inhibitor imidapril (Vitortrade mark) (30 mg kg(-1)) attenuated the development of weight loss in mice bearing the MAC16 tumour, suggesting that Ang II may play a role in the development of cachexia in this model.
...
PMID:Angiotensin II directly induces muscle protein catabolism through the ubiquitin-proteasome proteolytic pathway and may play a role in cancer cachexia. 1605 13

We show that multiple myeloma (MM), the second most commonly diagnosed hematologic malignancy, is responsive to hsp90 inhibitors in vitro and in a clinically relevant orthotopic in vivo model, even though this disease does not depend on HER2/neu, bcr/abl, androgen or estrogen receptors, or other hsp90 chaperoning clients which are hallmarks of tumor types traditionally viewed as attractive clinical settings for use of hsp90 inhibitors, such as the geldanamycin analog 17-AAG. This class of agents simultaneously suppresses in MM cells the expression and/or function of multiple levels of insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) and interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R) signaling (eg, IKK/NF-kappaB, PI-3K/Akt, and Raf/MAPK) and downstream effectors (eg, proteasome, telomerase, and HIF-1alpha activities). These pleiotropic proapoptotic effects allow hsp90 inhibitors to abrogate bone marrow stromal cell-derived protection on MM tumor cells, and sensitize them to other anticancer agents, including cytotoxic chemotherapy and the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. These results indicate that hsp90 can be targeted therapeutically in neoplasias that may not express or depend on molecules previously considered to be the main hsp90 client proteins. This suggests a more general role for hsp90 in chaperoning tumor- or tissue-type-specific constellations of client proteins with critical involvement in proliferative and antiapoptotic cellular responses, and paves the way for more extensive future therapeutic applications of hsp90 inhibition in diverse neoplasias, including MM.
...
PMID:Antimyeloma activity of heat shock protein-90 inhibition. 1623 64

Hepatitis B virus X (HBX) is essential for the productive infection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in vivo and has a pleiotropic effect on host cells. We have previously demonstrated that the proteasome complex is a cellular target of HBX, that HBX alters the proteolytic activity of proteasome in vitro, and that inhibition of proteasome leads to enhanced viral replication, suggesting that HBX and proteasome interaction plays a crucial role in the life cycle and pathogenesis of HBV. In the present study, we tested the effect of HBX on the proteasome activities in vivo in a transgenic mouse model in which HBX expression is developmentally regulated by the mouse major urinary promoter in the liver. In addition, microarray analysis was performed to examine the effect of HBX expression on the global gene expression profile of the liver. The results showed that the peptidase activities of the proteasome were reduced in the HBX transgenic mouse liver, whereas the activity of another cellular protease was elevated, suggesting a compensatory mechanism in protein degradation. In the microarray analysis, diverse genes were altered in the HBX mouse livers and the number of genes with significant changes increased progressively with age. Functional clustering showed that a number of genes involved in transcription and cell growth were significantly affected in the HBX mice, possibly accounting for the observed pleiotropic effect of HBX. In particular, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 1 was down-regulated in the HBX mouse liver. The down-regulation was similarly observed during acute woodchuck hepatitis virus infection. Other changes including up-regulation of proteolysis-related genes may also contribute to the profound alterations of liver functions in HBV infection.
...
PMID:Altered proteolysis and global gene expression in hepatitis B virus X transgenic mouse liver. 1641 18

Even apparently healthy patients on dialysis have significant loss of lean body mass. Patients with chronic renal failure without coexisting metabolic acidosis or inflammation have decreased protein turnover, with balanced reduction in protein synthesis and breakdown. However, regional and whole-body protein kinetic studies indicate that hemodialysis (HD) induces net increase in protein breakdown. Whole-body protein turnover studies show that HD is associated with decreased protein synthesis, but proteolysis is not increased. Muscle protein kinetics studies, however, identify enhanced muscle protein breakdown with inadequate compensatory increases in synthesis as the cause of the catabolism. Transmembrane amino acid-transport kinetics studies show that the outward transport is increased more than the inward transport of amino acids during HD. Altered intracellular amino acid transport kinetics and protein turnover during HD could be caused by the loss of amino acids in the dialysate or cytokine activation. Cytokines may be released from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and skeletal muscle during HD. Preliminary evidence indicates that intradialytic increase in cytokines activates the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. An intradialytic increase in albumin and fibrinogen synthesis is facilitated by interleukin-6 and the constant supply of amino acids derived from skeletal muscle catabolism. Protein anabolism can be induced in end-stage renal disease patients by repletion of amino acids, and perhaps treatment with recombinant human insulin-like growth factor.
...
PMID:Amino Acid and protein kinetics in renal failure: an integrated approach. 1653 Jun 7

Muscle atrophy in many conditions share a common mechanism in the upregulation of the muscle-specific ubiquitin E3-ligases atrophy gene-1/muscle atrophy F-box (Atrogin-1/MAFbx) and muscle ring-finger protein 1 (MuRF1). E3-ligases are part of the ubiquitin proteasome pathway utilized for protein degradation during muscle atrophy. In this study, we provide new data to show that this is not the case in age-related loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia). On the contrary, Atrogin-1/MAFbx and MuRF1 are downregulated in skeletal muscle of 30-month-old rats, and our results suggest that AKT (protein kinase B)-mediated inactivation of forkhead box O 4 (FOXO4) underlies this suppression. The data also suggest that activation of AKT is mediated through the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor, signaling via ShcA-Grb2-GAB. Using dietary restriction, we find that it impedes sarcopenia as well as the effects of aging on AKT phosphorylation, FOXO4 phosphorylation, and Atrogin-1/MAFbx and MuRF1 transcript regulation. We conclude that sarcopenia is mechanistically different from acute atrophies induced by disuse, disease, and denervation.
...
PMID:Atrogin-1/MAFbx and MuRF1 are downregulated in aging-related loss of skeletal muscle. 1687 Jun 27

The upstream binding factor 1 (UBF1), one of the proteins that regulate the activity of RNA polymerase I, is downregulated in 32D myeloid cells induced to differentiate into granulocytes, either by the type 1 insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) or the granulocytic colony stimulating factor (G-CSF). Downregulation of UBF1 is largely due to protein degradation, while mRNA levels are not affected. Inhibition of UBF1 degradation by lithium chloride (LiCl)and lactacystin suggest a role of glycogen synthase kinase beta (GSK3beta) in a proteasome-dependent degradation of UBF. GSK3beta phosphorylates in vitro and in vivo the UBF protein, which has five putative motifs for phosphorylation by GSK3beta. Elimination and/or mutations of these motifs stabilize the UBF1 protein even in cells induced to differentiate. Conversely, a stably transfected, constitutively active GSK3beta accelerates the downregulation of UBF1. We show further that activation of the differentiating protein C/EPBalpha in 32D cells transformed by the oncogenic BCR/ABL protein causes downregulation of UBF1. Finally, inhibition of differentiation of myeloid cells by a dominant negative mutant of Stat3 stabilizes the UBF1 protein, while rapamycin-induced differentiation of myeloid cells downregulates UBF1 levels. Taken together, our results indicate that the induction of granulocytic differentiation in 32D murine myeloid cells causes the degradation of UBF1, via GSK3beta and the proteasome pathway.
...
PMID:Downregulation of the upstream binding factor1 by glycogen synthase kinase3beta in myeloid cells induced to differentiate. 1706 82

We examined the temporal relationship between portacaval anastomosis (PCA), weight gain, changes in skeletal muscle mass and molecular markers of protein synthesis, protein breakdown, and satellite cell proliferation and differentiation. Male Sprague-Dawley rats with end to side PCA (n=24) were compared with sham-operated pair-fed rats (n=24). Whole body weight, lean body mass, and forelimb grip strength were determined at weekly intervals. The skeletal muscle expression of the ubiquitin proteasome system, myostatin, its receptor (the activin 2B receptor) and its signal, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor (CDKI) p21, insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and its receptor (IGF-I receptor-alpha), and markers of satellite cell proliferation and differentiation were quantified. PCA rats did not gain body weight and had lower lean body mass, forelimb grip strength, and gastrocnemius muscle weight. The skeletal muscle expression of the mRNA of ubiquitin proteasome components was higher in PCA rats in the first 2 wk followed by a lower expression in the subsequent 2 wk (P<0.01). The mRNA and protein of myostatin, activin 2B receptor, and CDKI p21 were higher, whereas IGF-I and its receptor as well as markers of satellite cell function (proliferating nuclear cell antigen, myoD, myf5, and myogenin) were lower at weeks 3 and 4 following PCA (P < 0.05). We conclude that PCA resulted in uninhibited proteolysis in the initial 2 wk. This was followed by an adaptive response in the later 2 wk consisting of an increased expression of myostatin that may have contributed to reduced muscle protein synthesis, impaired satellite cell function, and lower skeletal muscle mass.
...
PMID:Altered expression of genes regulating skeletal muscle mass in the portacaval anastomosis rat. 1718 34


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next >>