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Query: UNIPROT:P10145 (IL-8)
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ngo) is a Gram-negative pathogenic bacterium responsible for an array of diseases ranging from urethritis to disseminated gonococcal infections. Early events in the establishment of infection involve interactions between Ngo and the mucosal epithelium, which induce a local inflammatory response. Here we analyzed the molecular mechanism involved in the Ngo-induced induction of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-8. We identified the immediate early response transcription factor nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) as a key molecule for the induction of cytokine release. Ngo-induced activation of direct upstream signaling molecules was demonstrated for IkappaB kinase alpha and beta (IKKalpha and IKKbeta) by phosphorylation of IkappaBalpha as a substrate and IKK autophosphorylation. Using dominant negative cDNAs encoding kinase-dead IKKalpha, IKKbeta, and NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK), Ngo-induced NF-kappaB activity was significantly inhibited. Curcumin, the yellow pigment derived from Curcuma longa, inhibited IKKalpha, IKKbeta and NIK, indicating its strong potential to block NF-kappaB-mediated cytokine release and the innate immune response. In addition to the inhibition of Ngo-induced signaling, curcumin treatment of cells completely abolished the adherence of bacteria to cells in late infection, underlining the high potential of curcumin as an anti-microbial compound without cytotoxic side effects.
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PMID:The anti-inflammatory compound curcumin inhibits Neisseria gonorrhoeae-induced NF-kappaB signaling, release of pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and attenuates adhesion in late infection. 1592 92

R(+)WIN 55,212-2 is a synthetic cannabinoid that controls disease progression in models of multiple sclerosis. This is associated with its ability to reduce migration of leukocytes into the central nervous system. Because leukocyte migration is dependent on induction of adhesion molecules and chemokines by pro-inflammatory cytokines, we examined the effects of R(+)WIN 55,212-2 on their expression. Using 1321N1 astrocytoma and A-172 glioblastoma as cell models we show that R(+)WIN 55,212-2, but not its inactive chiral form S(-)WIN 55,212-2, strongly inhibits the interleukin-1 (IL-1) induction of the adhesion molecules intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and the chemokine IL-8. This inhibition is not mediated via the CB1 or CB2 cannabinoid receptors, because their selective antagonists and pertussis toxin failed to affect the inhibitory effects of R(+)WIN 55,212-2. Furthermore reverse transcription-PCR analysis did not detect the expression of either receptor in 1321N1 cells. R(+)WIN 55,212-2 was shown to inhibit adhesion molecule and chemokine expression at the level of transcription, because it strongly inhibited the IL-1 induction of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, and IL-8 mRNAs and blocked the IL-1 activation of their promoters. The NFkappaB pathway was then assessed as a lead target for R(+)WIN 55,212-2. NFkappaB was measured by expression of a transfected NFkappaB-regulated reporter gene. Using this assay, R(+)WIN 55,212-2 strongly inhibited IL-1 activation of NFkappaB. Furthermore R(+)WIN 55,212-2 inhibited the ability of overexpressed Myd88, Tak-1, and IKK-2 to induce the reporter gene suggesting that R(+)WIN 55,212-2 acts at or downstream of IKK-2 in the IL-1 pathway. However R(+)WIN 55,212-2 failed to inhibit IL-1-induced degradation of IkappaBalpha, excluding IKK-2 as a direct target. In addition electrophoretic mobility shift and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that R(+)WIN 55,212-2 does not regulate the IL-1-induced nuclear translocation of NFkappaB or the ability of the latter to bind to promoters regulating expression of ICAM-1 and IL-8. These data suggest that R(+)WIN 55,212-2 blocks IL-1 signaling by inhibiting the transactivation potential of NFkappaB.
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PMID:The synthetic cannabinoid R(+)WIN 55,212-2 inhibits the interleukin-1 signaling pathway in human astrocytes in a cannabinoid receptor-independent manner. 1610 34

Cigarette smoke-mediated oxidative stress induces an inflammatory response in the lungs by stimulating the release of proinflammatory cytokines. Chromatin remodeling due to histone acetylation and deacetylation is known to play an important role in transcriptional regulation of proinflammatory genes. The aim of this study was to investigate the molecular mechanism(s) of inflammatory responses caused by cigarette smoke extract (CSE) in the human macrophage-like cell line MonoMac6 and whether the treatment of these cells with the antioxidant glutathione (GSH) monoethyl ester, or modulation of the thioredoxin redox system, can attenuate cigarette smoke-mediated IL-8 release. Exposure of MonoMac6 cells to CSE (1% and 2.5%) increased IL-8 and TNF-alpha production vs. control at 24 h and was associated with significant depletion of GSH levels associated with increased reactive oxygen species release in addition to activation of NF-kappaB. Inhibition of IKK ablated the CSE-mediated IL-8 release, suggesting that this process is dependent on the NF-kappaB pathway. CSE also reduced histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity and HDAC1, HDAC2, and HDAC3 protein levels. This was associated with posttranslational modification of HDAC1, HDAC2, and HDAC3 protein by nitrotyrosine and aldehyde-adduct formation. Pretreatment of cells with GSH monoethyl ester, but not thioredoxin/thioredoxin reductase, reversed cigarette smoke-induced reduction in HDAC levels and significantly inhibited IL-8 release. Thus cigarette smoke-induced release of IL-8 is associated with activation of NF-kappaB via IKK and reduction in HDAC levels/activity in macrophages. Moreover, cigarette smoke-mediated proinflammatory events are regulated by the redox status of the cells.
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PMID:Cigarette smoke induces proinflammatory cytokine release by activation of NF-kappaB and posttranslational modifications of histone deacetylase in macrophages. 1647 65

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are promising anti-cancer drugs, but these exert differential responses depending on the cell types. Here, we demonstrate a new mechanism for activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) by HDAC inhibitor apicidin and the role of NF-kappaB signaling pathway for mediating differential cellular responses, especially, apoptosis. Treatment of HeLa cells with apicidin increases transcriptional activity of NF-kappaB and its target gene IL-8 and cIAP-1 induction, which involves the activation of IKK-IkappaBalpha signaling pathway through Sp1-dependent de novo protein synthesis. In parallel, apicidin treatment leads to histone hyperacetylation in the IL-8 promoter region independent of NF-kappaB signaling pathway, which is not sufficient for full transcription of IL-8 gene. This NF-kappaB activation contributes to resistance of HeLa cells to apoptotic potential of apicidin. Collectively, our results suggest that activation of NF-kappaB signaling cascade functions as a critical modulator to determine cell fate on apoptosis in response to HDAC inhibitors.
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PMID:Activation of NF-kappaB by HDAC inhibitor apicidin through Sp1-dependent de novo protein synthesis: its implication for resistance to apoptosis. 1662 33

Although the accumulation of neutrophils in the lungs and airways is common to many inflammatory lung diseases, including acute lung injury, the alterations that neutrophils undergo as they leave the peripheral circulation and migrate into the lungs have not been well characterized. Human volunteers were exposed to endotoxin by bronchoscopic instillation. The resulting air space neutrophil accumulation and peripheral blood neutrophils were isolated 16 h later, compared with circulating neutrophils isolated before or after to the pulmonary endotoxin exposure, and compared with circulating neutrophils exposed to endotoxin in vitro. Microarray analysis was performed on air space, circulatory, and in vitro endotoxin-stimulated neutrophils. Functional analysis included the determination of neutrophil apoptosis, chemotaxis, release of cytokines and growth factors, and superoxide anion release. Dramatic gene expression differences were apparent between air space and circulating neutrophils: approximately 15% of expressed genes have altered expression levels, including broad increases in inflammatory- and chemotaxis-related genes, as well as antiapoptotic and IKK-activating pathways. Functional analysis of air space compared with circulating neutrophils showed increased superoxide release, diminished apoptosis, decreased IL-8-induced chemotaxis, and a pattern of IL-8, macrophage inflammatory protein-1beta, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha release different from either unstimulated or LPS-stimulated circulating neutrophils. Many of these changes are not elicited by in vitro treatment with endotoxin. Limited differences were detected between circulating neutrophils isolated before and 16 h after pulmonary endotoxin instillation. These results suggest that neutrophils sequestered in the lung become fundamentally different from those resident in the circulation, and this difference is distinct from in vitro activation with endotoxin.
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PMID:Functional and genomic changes induced by alveolar transmigration in human neutrophils. 1686 84

In this study, we examined the regulation of NF-kappaB activation and IL-8/CXCL8 expression by thrombin in human lung epithelial cells (EC). Thrombin caused a concentration-dependent increase in IL-8/CXCL8 release in a human lung EC line (A549) and primary normal human bronchial EC. In A549 cells, thrombin, SFLLRN-NH2 (a protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1) agonist peptide), and GYPGQV-NH2 (a PAR4 agonist peptide), but not TFRGAP-NH2 (a PAR3 agonist peptide), induced an increase in IL-8/CXCL8-luciferase (Luc) activity. The thrombin-induced IL-8/CXCL8 release was attenuated by D-phenylalanyl-L-prolyl-L-arginine chloromethyl ketone (a thrombin inhibitor), U73122 (a phosphoinositide-phospholipase C inhibitor), Ro-32-0432 (a protein kinsase C alpha (PKC alpha) inhibitor), an NF-kappaB inhibitor peptide, and Bay 117082 (an IkappaB phosphorylation inhibitor). Thrombin-induced increase in IL-8/CXCL8-Luc activity was inhibited by the dominant-negative mutant of c-Src and the cells transfected with the kappaB site mutation of the IL-8/CXCL8 construct. Thrombin caused time-dependent increases in phosphorylation of c-Src at tyrosine 416 and c-Src activity. Thrombin-elicited c-Src activity was inhibited by Ro-32-0432. Stimulation of cells with thrombin activated IkappaB kinase alphabeta (IKK alphabeta), IkappaB alpha phosphorylation, IkappaB alpha degradation, p50 and p65 translocation from the cytosol to the nucleus, NF-kappaB-specific DNA-protein complex formation, and kappaB-Luc activity. Pretreatment of A549 cells with Ro-32-4032 and the dominant-negative mutant of c-Src DN inhibited thrombin-induced IKK alphabeta activity, kappaB-Luc activity, and NF-kappaB-specific DNA-protein complex formation. Further studies revealed that thrombin induced PKC alpha, c-Src, and IKK alphabeta complex formation. These results show for the first time that thrombin, acting through PAR1 and PAR4, activates the phosphoinositide-phospholipase C/PKC alpha/c-Src/IKK alphabeta signaling pathway to induce NF-kappaB activation, which in turn induces IL-8/CXCL8 expression and release in human lung EC.
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PMID:c-Src mediates thrombin-induced NF-kappaB activation and IL-8/CXCL8 expression in lung epithelial cells. 1692 Sep 85

Endothelial cells are important reservoirs for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) replication, dissemination and persistence. HCMV infection of endothelial cells has been associated with a proinflammatory response characterized by an increased expression of chemokines and adhesion molecules and modulation of angiogenesis. Many of the host proinflammatory genes augmented in HCMV-infected endothelial cells are regulated, at least in part, by the NF-kappaB pathway. HCMV is a potent activator of NF-kappaB through the IKK-IkappaB signaling axis. To explore whether inhibition of HCMV-induced NF-kappaB activation may interfere with the onset of virus-associated inflammatory response, we measured the effects of the specific IKK2 inhibitor AS602868 on the expression of a panel of proinflammatory genes in HUVEC cells infected with a clinical isolate. Treatment of infected HUVEC with AS602868 was shown to impair HCMV-induced NF-kappaB activity, IE gene expression, viral replication and to prevent HCMV-induced upregulation of ICAM-1, IL-8, RANTES, IP-10, I-TAC and COX-2 gene expression. Consistent with these results, HCMV-mediated upregulation of another NF-kappaB-dependent gene, the plasminogen inhibitor type-1, a regulatory factor of endothelial proliferation and angiogenesis, was abrogated by AS602868. These results suggest that inhibition of HCMV-induced IKK-NF-kappaB activation may be of interest to limit the virus-induced inflammatory response of infected endothelial cells.
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PMID:Targeting the NF-kappaB pathway through pharmacological inhibition of IKK2 prevents human cytomegalovirus replication and virus-induced inflammatory response in infected endothelial cells. 1707 Jun 4

LPS stimulates monocytes/macrophages through the activation of signaling events that modulate the production of inflammatory cytokines. Apigenin, a flavonoid abundantly found in fruits and vegetables, exhibits anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory activities through poorly defined mechanisms. In this study, we demonstrate that apigenin inhibits the production of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1beta, IL-8, and TNF in LPS-stimulated human monocytes and mouse macrophages. The inhibitory effect on proinflammatory cytokine production persists even when apigenin is administered after LPS stimulation. Transient transfection experiments using NF-kappaB reporter constructs indicated that apigenin inhibits the transcriptional activity of NF-kappaB in LPS-stimulated mouse macrophages. The classical proteasome-dependent degradation of the NF-kappaB inhibitor IkappaBalpha was observed in apigenin LPS-stimulated human monocytes. Using EMSA, we found that apigenin does not alter NF-kappaB-DNA binding activity in human monocytes. Instead we show that apigenin, as part of a non-canonical pathway, regulates NF-kappaB activity through hypophosphorylation of Ser536 in the p65 subunit and the inactivation of the IKK complex stimulated by LPS. The decreased phosphorylation on Ser536 observed in LPS-stimulated mouse macrophages treated with apigenin was overcome by the over-expression of IKKbeta. In addition, our studies indicate that apigenin inhibits in vivo LPS-induced TNF and the mortality induced by lethal doses of LPS. Collectively, these findings suggest a molecular mechanism by which apigenin suppresses inflammation and modulates the immune response in vivo.
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PMID:Apigenin blocks lipopolysaccharide-induced lethality in vivo and proinflammatory cytokines expression by inactivating NF-kappaB through the suppression of p65 phosphorylation. 1798 4

We have reported recently that the chemokine interleukin 8 (IL-8)/CXCL8 was overexpressed in invasive estrogen receptor (ERalpha)-negative breast cancer cells compared with ERalpha-positive breast cancer cells. We now demonstrate that histone deacetylases (HDACs) play an essential role in the regulation of IL-8 gene expression in ERalpha-positive MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Treatment of MCF-7 cells with the HDAC inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA) led to a strong up-regulation of IL-8 protein and RNA levels in MCF-7 cells. The up-regulation of IL-8 in MCF-7 cells was time- and concentration-dependent. Moreover, run-on and transfection experiments demonstrated that IL-8 induction by HDAC inhibitors was transcriptional and involved mainly the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) site of the IL-8 promoter. These observations are corroborated by an up-regulation of NF-kappaB activity in MCF-7 cells in the presence of TSA. In addition, blocking NF-kappaB pathway by adenoviral delivery of a dominant-negative IkappaBorIkappaB kinase complex 2 (IKK2) mutant abolished IL-8 gene induction by histone deacetylase inhibitors. HDAC inhibitors triggered IKK phosphorylation and up-regulated p65 nuclear translocation, although they decreased the protein levels of IkappaBalpha, which accounts for NF-kappaB activation. TSA increased binding of acetylated histone 3 to the IL-8 gene promoter. In summary, our results demonstrate that NF-kappaB pathway repression by HDAC is responsible for the low expression of IL-8 in ERalpha-positive breast cancer cells.
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PMID:Interleukin-8 expression is regulated by histone deacetylases through the nuclear factor-kappaB pathway in breast cancer. 1866 46

We recently reported that bcl-xL regulates interleukin 8 (CXCL8) protein expression and promoter activity in glioblastoma cells. In this paper we demonstrate that CXCL8 induction by bcl-xL is mediated through a nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB)-dependent mechanism. Mutational studies on the CXCL8 promoter showed that NF-kB binding site was required for bcl-xL-induced promoter activity and an enhanced nuclear expression of NF-kB subunits p65 and p50 was observed after bcl-xL over-expression. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed an increased DNA-binding activity of NF-kB in bcl-xL over-expressing cells and the use of specific antibodies confirmed the involvement of p65 and p50 in NF-kB activity on CXCL8 promoter sequence. NF-kB activity regulation by bcl-xL involved IkBalpha and IKK complex signaling pathway. In fact, bcl-xL over-expression induced a decrease of cytoplasmic expression of the IkBalpha protein, paralleled by an increase in the phosphorylation of the same IkBalpha and IKKalpha/beta. Moreover, the down-regulation of the ectopic or endogenous bcl-xL expression through RNA interference confirmed the ability of bcl-xL to modulate NF-kB pathway, and the transient expression of a degradation-resistant form of the cytoplasmic NF-kB inhibitor IkBalpha in bcl-xL transfectants confirmed the involvement of that inhibitor in bcl-xL-induced CXCL8 expression and promoter activity. In conclusion, our results demonstrate the role of NF-kB as the mediator of bcl-xL-induced CXCL8 up-regulation in glioblastoma cells.
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PMID:Involvement of nuclear factor-kappa B in bcl-xL-induced interleukin 8 expression in glioblastoma. 1878 78


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