title: Mechanism of UV-induced IkappaBalpha-independent activation of NF-kappaB.
abstract: Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB) plays an important role in UV-induced skin tumorigenesis. Activation of NF-kappaB by UV-irradiation is composed of two phases. The early phase culminates with maximal levels of DNA binding ability at 4 h postirradiation and is dependent on translational inhibition. The late-phase activation of NF-kappaB occurs between 16 and 48 h post-irradiation and the mechanism is not clear due to the fact that NF-kappaB was activated in the presence of high level of IkappaBalpha. In this report, we provide evidence that without translational inhibition, the transcription of IkappaBalpha was induced by UV-irradiation. In the late-phase of UV-induced NF-kappaB activation, the IkappaBalpha depletion is the combined result of regulation at both transcriptional and translational levels. Neither ubiquitination nor proteasomal degradation have detectable attributions to IkappaBalpha breakdown. We also demonstrate that UV only induced phosphorylation of p65(S276), while tumor necrosis factor-alpha induced phosphorylation at both Ser276 and 536 sites of p65. Based upon our results, we propose a novel mechanism for translation-regulated IkappaBalpha depletion and MSK-mediated NF-kappaB activation at 24 h post-UV-irradiation.
authors.affiliation: Edison Biotechnology Institute, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Csaba F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: László
authors.forename: Shiyong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D020672:I-kappa B Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex / Q000378:metabolism; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015533:Transcriptional Activation / Q000528:radiation effects; D054875:Ubiquitination; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D020672:I-kappa B Proteins; D016328:NF-kappa B; C000606205:Nfkbia protein, mouse; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; C531557:eIF2alpha kinase, mouse; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex