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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 281: L499-L508, 2001;
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Vol. 281, Issue 2, L499-L508, August 2001

Gene suppression by tristetraprolin and release by the p38 pathway

Wei Zhu1, Maria A. Brauchle2, Franco Di Padova2, Hermann Gram2, Liguo New1, Koh Ono1, Jocelyn S. Downey1, and Jiahuai Han1

1 Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037; and 2 Novartis Pharma, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

Tristetraprolin (TTP) is a zinc finger protein that has been implicated in the control of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) mRNA stability. We show here that TTP protein has a suppressive effect on promoter elements from TNF-alpha and interleukin-8 and that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation can release this suppression. The release in LPS-stimulated cells was found to be primarily mediated by the p38 pathway because activation of p38 is sufficient to remove the suppressive effect of TTP. Indeed, TTP seems to be a direct substrate of p38 in vivo since it is an excellent substrate of p38 in vitro, and mutation of potential phosphorylation sites in TTP prevents release of the suppression imposed on TNF transcription. We found TTP protein to be present at low levels in the resting macrophage cell line RAW 264.7 and to be quickly induced after LPS stimulation. The kinetics of TTP induction suggests a potential role of TTP as an important player in switching off LPS-induced genes after induction. In conclusion, TTP plays an important role in maintaining gene quiescence, and this quenching effect on transcription can be released by p38 phosphorylation of TTP.

inflammation; mitogen-activated protein kinase; gene suppression; TIS11


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