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Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
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We have recently shown that the accumulation of diverse viral and cellular membrane proteins in the ER activates the higher eukaryotic transcription factor NF-kappaB. This defined a novel ER-nuclear signal transduction pathway, which is distinct from the previously described unfolded protein response (UPR). The well characterized UPR pathway is activated by the presence of un- or malfolded proteins in the ER. In contrast, the ER stress signal which activates the NF-kappaB pathway is not known. Here we used the adenovirus early region protein E3/19K as a model to investigate the nature of the NF-kappaB-activating signal emitted by the ER. E3/19K resides in the endoplasmic reticulum where it binds to MHC class I molecules, thereby preventing their transport to the cell surface. It is maintained in the ER by a retention signal sequence in its carboxy terminus, which causes the protein to be continuously retrieved to the ER from post-ER compartments. Mutation of this sequence allows E3/19K to reach the cell surface. We show here that expression of E3/19K potently activates a functional NF-kappaB transcription factor. The activated NF-kappaB complexes contained p50/p65 and p50/c-rel heterodimers. E3/19K interaction with MHC class I was not important for NF-kappaB activation since mutant proteins which no longer bind MHC molecules remained fully capable of inducing NF-kappaB. However, activation of both NF-kappaB DNA binding and kappaB-dependent transactivation relied on E3/19K ER retention: mutants, which were expressed on the cell surface, could no longer activate the transcription factor. This identifies the NF-kappaB-activating signal as the accumulation of proteins in the ER membrane, a condition we have termed "ER overload." We show that ER overload-mediated NF-kappaB activation but not TNF-stimulated NF-kappaB induction can be inhibited by the intracellular Ca2+ chelator TMB-8. Moreover, treatment of cells with two inhibitors of the ER-resident Ca(2+) -dependent ATPase, thapsigargin and cyclopiazonic acid, which causes a rapid release of Ca2+ from the ER, strongly activated NF-kappaB. We therefore propose that ER overload activates NF-kappaB by causing Ca2+ release from the ER. Because NF-kappaB plays a key role in mounting an immune response, ER overload caused by viral proteins may constitute a simple antiviral response with broad specificity.
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PMID:Activation of transcription factor NF-kappaB by the adenovirus E3/19K protein requires its ER retention. 864 84

The positive-strand RNA genome of beet yellows closterovirus (BYV) encodes a 65 kDa protein (p65) related to the HSP70 family of cell chaperones. The full-sized BYV p65, and N- and C-terminal fragments, with (His)6 tails, were overexpressed in bacteria and purified by metal-chelate chromatography. Using a polyclonal antiserum raised against the C-terminal fragment of p65, evidence was obtained for expression of the viral protein in planta. Purified recombinant p65 and its N-terminal 40 kDa fragment exhibited Mg2+-dependent ATPase activity in vitro. However, unlike its cellular HSP70 homologues, p65 was unable to bind to denatured protein and its ATPase activity was not stimulated by synthetic peptides which are known to stimulate HSP70 ATPases. Hence, the BYV p65, although being a chaperone-type ATPase, may have a distinct substrate specificity and function in BYV-infected cells.
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PMID:The beet yellows closterovirus p65 homologue of HSP70 chaperones has ATPase activity associated with its conserved N-terminal domain but does not interact with unfolded protein chains. 904 1

Interaction of many infectious agents with eukaryotic host cells is known to cause activation of the ubiquitous transcription factor nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) (U. Siebenlist, G. Franzoso, and K. Brown, Annu. Rev. Cell Biol. 10:405-455, 1994). Recently, we reported a biphasic pattern of NF-kappaB activation in cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells consequent to infection with Rickettsia rickettsii, an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium and the etiologic agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (L. A. Sporn, S. K. Sahni, N. B. Lerner, V. J. Marder, D. J. Silverman, L. C. Turpin, and A. L. Schwab, Infect. Immun. 65:2786-2791, 1997). In the present study, we describe activation of NF-kappaB in a cell-free system, accomplished by addition of partially purified R. rickettsii to endothelial cell cytoplasmic extracts. This activation was rapid, reaching maximal levels at 60 min, and was dependent on the number of R. rickettsii organisms added. Antibody supershift assays using monospecific antisera against NF-kappaB subunits (p50 and p65) confirmed the authenticity of the gel-shifted complexes and identified both p50-p50 homodimers and p50-p65 heterodimers as constituents of the activated NF-kappaB pool. Activation occurred independently of the presence of endothelial cell membranes and was not inhibited by removal of the endothelial cell proteasome. Lack of involvement of the proteasome was further confirmed in assays using the peptide-aldehyde proteasome inhibitor MG 132. Activation was not ATP dependent since no change in activation resulted from addition of an excess of the unhydrolyzable ATP analog ATPgammaS, supplementation with exogenous ATP, or hydrolysis of endogenous ATP with ATPase. Furthermore, Western blot analysis before and after in vitro activation failed to demonstrate phosphorylation of serine 32 or degradation of the cytoplasmic pool of IkappaB alpha. This lack of IkappaB alpha involvement was supported by the finding that R. rickettsii can induce NF-kappaB activation in cytoplasmic extracts prepared from T24 bladder carcinoma cells and human embryo fibroblasts stably transfected with a superrepressor phosphorylation mutant of IkappaB alpha, rendering NF-kappaB inactivatable by many known signals. Thus, evidence is provided for a potentially novel NF-kappaB activation pathway wherein R. rickettsii may interact with and activate host cell transcriptional machinery independently of the involvement of the proteasome or known signal transduction pathways.
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PMID:Proteasome-independent activation of nuclear factor kappaB in cytoplasmic extracts from human endothelial cells by Rickettsia rickettsii. 957 57

The human promoter region of JFC1, a phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate binding ATPase, was isolated by amplification of a 549 bp region upstream of the jfc1 gene by the use of a double-PCR system. By primer extension analysis we mapped the transcription initiation site at nucleotide -321 relative to the translation start site. Putative regulatory elements were identified in the jfc1 TATA-less promoter, including three consensus sites for nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB). We analysed the three putative NF-kappaB binding sites by gel retardation and supershift assays. Each of the putative NF-kappaB sites interacted specifically with recombinant NF-kappaB p50, and the complexes co-migrated with those formed by the NF-kappaB consensus sequence and p50. An antibody to p50 generated a supershifted complex for these NF-kappaB sites. These sites formed specific complexes with nuclear proteins from tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha)-treated WEHI 231 cells, which were supershifted with antibodies against p50 and p65. The jfc1 promoter was transcriptionally active in various cell lines, as determined by luciferase reporter assays following transfection with a jfc1 promoter luciferase vector. Co-transfection with NF-kappaB expression vectors or stimulation with TNFalpha resulted in significant transactivation of the jfc1 promoter construct, although transactivation of a mutated jfc1 promoter was negligible. The expression of a dominant negative IkappaB (inhibitor kappaB) decreased basal jfc1 promoter activity. The cell lines PC-3, LNCaP and DU-145, but not Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphocytes, showed a dramatic increase in the expression of JFC1 after treatment with TNFalpha, suggesting that transcriptional activation of JFC1 by the TNFalpha/NF-kappaB pathway is significant in prostate carcinoma cell lines.
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PMID:JFC1 is transcriptionally activated by nuclear factor-kappaB and up-regulated by tumour necrosis factor alpha in prostate carcinoma cells. 1213 62

The H(+)-K(+)-ATPase alpha(2) (HKalpha(2)) gene plays a central role in potassium homeostasis, yet little is known about its transcriptional control. We recently demonstrated that the proximal promoter confers basal transcriptional activity in mouse inner medullary collecting duct 3 cells. We sought to determine whether the kappaB DNA binding element at -104 to -94 influences basal HKalpha(2) gene transcription in these cells. Recombinant NF-kappaB p50 footprinted the region -116/-94 in vitro. Gel shift and supershift analysis revealed NF-kappaB p50- and p65-containing DNA-protein complexes in nuclear extracts of mouse inner medullary collecting duct 3 cells. A promoter-luciferase construct with a mutated -104/-94 NF-kappaB element exhibited higher activity than the wild-type promoter in transfection assays. Overexpression of NF-kappaB p50, p65, or their combination trans-repressed the HKalpha(2) promoter. The histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor trichostatin A partially reversed NF-kappaB-mediated trans-repression of the HKalpha(2) promoter. HDAC6 overexpression inhibited HKalpha(2) promoter activity, and HDAC6 coimmunoprecipitated with NF-kappaB p50 and p65. These results suggest that HDAC6, recruited to the DNA protein complex, acts with NF-kappaB to suppress HKalpha(2) transcription and identify NF-kappaB p50 and p65 as novel binding partners for HDAC6.
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PMID:NF-kappaB inhibits transcription of the H(+)-K(+)-ATPase alpha(2)-subunit gene: role of histone deacetylases. 1237 65

RNA helicase A (RHA), a member of DNA and RNA helicase family containing ATPase activity, is involved in many steps of gene expression such as transcription and mRNA export. RHA has been reported to bind directly to the transcriptional coactivator, CREB-binding protein, and the tumor suppressor protein, BRCA1, and links them to RNA Polymerase II holoenzyme complex. Using yeast two-hybrid screening, we have identified RHA as an interacting molecule of the p65 subunit of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB). The interaction between p65 and RHA was confirmed by glutathione-S transferase pull-down assay in vitro, and by co-immunoprecipitation assay in vivo. In transient transfection assays, RHA enhanced NF-kappaB dependent reporter gene expression induced by p65, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, or NF-kappaB inducing kinase. The mutant form of RHA lacking ATP-binding activity inhibited NF-kappaB dependent reporter gene expression induced by these activators. Moreover, depletion of RHA using short interfering RNA reduced the NF-kappaB dependent transactivation. These data suggest that RHA is an essential component of the transactivation complex by mediating the transcriptional activity of NF-kappaB.
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PMID:RNA helicase A interacts with nuclear factor kappaB p65 and functions as a transcriptional coactivator. 1535 51

Collecting duct (CD) principal cells are exposed to large physiologic variations of apical Na+ influx as a result of variations of Na(+) intake and extrarenal losses. It was shown previously that increasing intracellular [Na+] induces recruitment of Na,K-ATPase to the cell surface in a protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent manner in both native and cultured renal CD principal cells. As described previously in response to cytokines in nonrenal cells, PKA activation in response to increased intracellular [Na+] was independent of cAMP and required proteasomal activity. With the use of cultured mpkCCD(cL4) cells as a model of CD principal cells, whether cytokines and increased intracellular [Na+] share a common signaling pathway leading to cell-surface Na,K-ATPase recruitment was investigated. Results showed that two potent inducers of NF-kappaB, LPS and TNF-alpha, enhance Na+ transport and induce cell-surface Na,K-ATPase recruitment in mpkCCD(cL4) cells via cAMP-independent PKA activation. In addition, increased intracellular [Na+] after selective plasma membrane permeabilization by a low concentration of the Na+ ionophore amphotericin B (1 microg/ml) induced dissociation of the PKA catalytic subunit from p65-NF-kappaB and IkappaBalpha. Moreover, inhibitors of NF-kappaB/IkappaB dissociation prevented both Na+-dependent stimulation of PKA activity and cell-surface Na,K-ATPase recruitment. Altogether, these results revealed the presence of a novel Na+-dependent intracellular signaling pathway leading to Na,K-ATPase cell-surface recruitment via dissociation of the PKA catalytic subunit from a macromolecular complex that contains NF-kappaB and IkappaBalpha in CD epithelial cells.
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PMID:Cytokines and sodium induce protein kinase A-dependent cell-surface Na,K-ATPase recruitment via dissociation of NF-kappaB/IkappaB/protein kinase A catalytic subunit complex in collecting duct principal cells. 1600 Jun 98

Aldosterone may play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of heart failure. To elucidate the beneficial cardioprotective mechanism of eplerenone, a novel selective aldosterone blocker, we hypothesized that eplerenone stimulates endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) through Akt and inhibits inducible NO synthase (iNOS) via nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) after the development of oxidative stress and activation of the lectin-like, oxidized, low-density lipoprotein receptor 1 (LOX-1) pathway in Dahl salt-sensitive rats with heart failure. Eplerenone (10, 30, and 100 mg/kg per day) was given from the age of the left ventricular hypertrophy stage (11 weeks) to the failing stage (18 weeks) for 7 weeks. The left ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume relationship was evaluated using a conductance catheter. Decreased percentage of fractional shortening by echocardiography and end-systolic pressure-volume relationship in failing rats was significantly ameliorated by eplerenone. Downregulated eNOS expression, eNOS and Akt phosphorylation, and NOS activity in failing rats were increased by eplerenone. Upregulated expression of the mineralocorticoid receptor aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2); NAD(P)H oxidase p22phox, p47phox, gp91phox, iNOS, and LOX-1; and activated p65 NF-kappaB, protein kinase CbetaII, c-Src, p44/p42 extracellular signal-regulated kinase, and p70S6 kinase phosphorylation were inhibited by eplerenone. Eplerenone administration resulted in significant improvement of cardiac function and remodeling and upregulation of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase expression. These findings suggest that eplerenone may have significant therapeutic potential for heart failure, and these cardioprotective mechanisms of eplerenone may be mediated in part by stimulating eNOS through Akt and inhibiting iNOS via NF-kappaB after activation of the oxidative stress-LOX-1 pathway and signal transduction pathway.
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PMID:Cardioprotective mechanisms of eplerenone on cardiac performance and remodeling in failing rat hearts. 1650 12

Inflammation can activate macrophages or monocytes and sequentially release several inflammatory cytokines and reactive oxygen species (ROS). Oxidative stress-induced acute inflammatory response plays an important role in several diseases. This study was designed to investigate the prophylactic effect of the antioxidant lipoic acid (LA) during inflammation-induced mice. Mice were divided in to three groups (n = 8 in each): control, systemic inflammation, and LA treated mice with systemic inflammation. Results show that ROS was significantly higher in lymphocytes, hepatocytes, and astrocytes (P < 0.05) of inflammation induced mice when compared with control but no significant changes were observed in the LA treated group. Increased levels of lipid peroxidation (LPO) and decreased activities of oxidants such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione, and ATPase were observed in the inflammation-induced mice, which returned to near normalcy following LA therapy. In vitro study has shown that LA treatment not only suppresses the increased LPO levels but also inhibits the lipid break down resulting from autoxidation. In addition, increased immunoreactivity of the astrocyte marker glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was observed in the neocortex region of inflammation-induced mice, whereas nuclear factor kappa B p65 (NFkappaB) immunoreactivity was observed in both the neocortex and liver of the same group which were effectively controlled by LA therapy suggesting that LA can efficiently manage systemic inflammation.
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PMID:Efficacy of DL-alpha lipoic acid against systemic inflammation-induced mice: antioxidant defense system. 1840 59

DEAD-box RNA helicases constitute the largest family of RNA helicases and are involved in many aspects of RNA metabolism. In this study, we identified RelA (p65), a subunit of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), as a cellular co-factor of DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX1, through mammalian two hybrid system and co-immunoprecipitation assay. Additionally, confocal microscopy and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays confirmed this interaction. In NF-kappaB dependent reporter gene assay, DDX1 acted as a co-activator to enhance NF-kappaB-mediated transcription activation. The functional domains involved were mapped to the carboxy terminal transactivation domain of RelA and the amino terminal ATPase/helicase domain of DDX1. The DDX1 trans-dominant negative mutant lacking ATP-dependent RNA helicase activity lost it transcriptional inducer activity. Moreover, depletion of endogenous DDX1 by specific small interfering RNAs significantly reduced NF-kappaB-dependent transcription. Taken together, the results suggest that DDX1 may play an important role in NF-kappaB-mediated transactivation, and revelation of this regulatory pathway may help to explore the novel mechanisms for regulating NF-kappaB transcriptional activity.
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PMID:The DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX1 interacts with RelA and enhances nuclear factor kappaB-mediated transcription. 1905 35


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