TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting the role of the immunoproteasome in the activation of the canonical NF-κB pathway
AU - Jang, Eun Ryoung
AU - Lee, Na Ra
AU - Han, Songhee
AU - Wu, Ying
AU - Sharma, Lalit Kumar
AU - Carmony, Kimberly Cornish
AU - Marks, James
AU - Lee, Do Min
AU - Ban, Jung Ok
AU - Wehenkel, Marie
AU - Hong, Jin Tae
AU - Kim, Kyung Bo
AU - Lee, Wooin
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - The discovery of NF-κB signaling pathways has greatly enhanced our understanding of inflammatory and immune responses. In the canonical NF-κB pathway, the proteasomal degradation of IκBα, an inhibitory protein of NF-κB, is widely accepted to be a key regulatory step. However, contradictory findings have been reported as to whether the immunoproteasome plays an obligatory role in the degradation of IκBα and activation of the canonical NF-κB pathway. Such results were obtained mainly using traditional gene deletion strategies. Here, we have revisited the involvement of the immunoproteasome in the canonical NF-κB pathway using small molecule inhibitors of the immunoproteasome, namely UK-101 and LKS01 targeting β1i and β5i, respectively. H23 and Panc-1 cancer cells were pretreated with UK-101, LKS01 or epoxomicin (a prototypic inhibitor targeting both the constitutive proteasome and immunoproteasome). We then examined whether these pretreatments lead to any defect in activating the canonical NF-κB pathway following TNFα exposure by monitoring the phosphorylation and degradation of IκBα, nuclear translocation of NF-κB proteins and DNA binding and transcriptional activity of NF-κB. Our results consistently indicated that there is no defect in activating the canonical NF-κB pathway following selective inhibition of the immunoproteasome catalytic subunits β1i, β5i or both using UK-101 and LKS01, in contrast to epoxomicin. In summary, our current results using chemical genetic approaches strongly support that the catalytic activity of the immunoproteasome subunits β1i and β5i is not required for canonical NF-κB activation in lung and pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line models.
AB - The discovery of NF-κB signaling pathways has greatly enhanced our understanding of inflammatory and immune responses. In the canonical NF-κB pathway, the proteasomal degradation of IκBα, an inhibitory protein of NF-κB, is widely accepted to be a key regulatory step. However, contradictory findings have been reported as to whether the immunoproteasome plays an obligatory role in the degradation of IκBα and activation of the canonical NF-κB pathway. Such results were obtained mainly using traditional gene deletion strategies. Here, we have revisited the involvement of the immunoproteasome in the canonical NF-κB pathway using small molecule inhibitors of the immunoproteasome, namely UK-101 and LKS01 targeting β1i and β5i, respectively. H23 and Panc-1 cancer cells were pretreated with UK-101, LKS01 or epoxomicin (a prototypic inhibitor targeting both the constitutive proteasome and immunoproteasome). We then examined whether these pretreatments lead to any defect in activating the canonical NF-κB pathway following TNFα exposure by monitoring the phosphorylation and degradation of IκBα, nuclear translocation of NF-κB proteins and DNA binding and transcriptional activity of NF-κB. Our results consistently indicated that there is no defect in activating the canonical NF-κB pathway following selective inhibition of the immunoproteasome catalytic subunits β1i, β5i or both using UK-101 and LKS01, in contrast to epoxomicin. In summary, our current results using chemical genetic approaches strongly support that the catalytic activity of the immunoproteasome subunits β1i and β5i is not required for canonical NF-κB activation in lung and pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line models.
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U2 - 10.1039/c2mb25125f
DO - 10.1039/c2mb25125f
M3 - Article
C2 - 22722901
AN - SCOPUS:84864694553
SN - 1742-206X
VL - 8
SP - 2295
EP - 2302
JO - Molecular BioSystems
JF - Molecular BioSystems
IS - 9
ER -