Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on July 6, 2005
Carcinogenesis 2006 27(1):43-52; doi:10.1093/carcin/bgi174
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Carcinogenesis vol.27 no.1 © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved.
Production of chemokine CXCL1/KC by okadaic acid through the nuclear factor-
B pathway
1 Department of Nutrition Sciences and 2 Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-3360, USA and 3 Center for Molecular Biology, Meikai University School of Dentistry, Saitama 350-0283, Japan
* To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Nutrition Sciences, 311 Susan Mott Webb Nutrition Sciences Building, 1675 University Boulevard, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35295-3360. Tel: +1 205 975 6624; Fax: +1 205 934 7049; Email: plchang{at}uab.edu
The murine chemokine CXCL1/KC is known as a chemoattractant for neutrophil infiltration and as a promoter of tumor growth. To determine its relevance in tumorigenesis, we first asked whether okadaic acid (OKA), a natural tumor promoter and a potent protein phosphatase 1 and 2A inhibitor, stimulates KC expression and if it does, through what pathway, in a promotable mouse epidermal-like JB6 cell line commonly used for studying molecules related to tumor promotion. We found that OKA stimulated the de novo synthesis of KC mRNA and protein in a dose- and time-dependent manner. To determine the mechanism by which OKA stimulated the expression of KC at the transcriptional level, transient transfection assays using serially deleted sections of KC promoter fused to luciferase reporter gene were performed. These studies showed that transactivation of KC promoter by OKA specifically involved the region between 104 and 59 containing the two nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-
B) response elements (
B1 and
B2). Further analyses using the mutated NF-
B response elements
B1 and
B2 indicated that both regions were required for optimum transactivation of KC by OKA with the former NF-
B response element playing a more significant role in regulating KC expression. Gel-shift and supershift analyses demonstrated the involvement of three NF-
B subunits, p65, p50 and c-Rel, with p65 as the major subunit in the NF-
B dimer complex. Additionally, immunohistochemistry and western blot analyses confirmed the presence of p65 in the nucleus with its transactivation domain phosphorylated at serine 536. In summary, this is the first report to show that the tumor promoter OKA can stimulate the de novo synthesis and secretion of KC, and that this stimulation is mediated through the NF-
B pathway in JB6 cells.
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