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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 12, Pages 8425-8432Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.12.8425
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TR7013]
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The Nef protein of HIV-1 is a key promoter of disease progression, owing to its dramatic yet ill-defined impact on viral replication. Previously, we have shown that Nef enhances embryonic ectodermal development Tat-mediated transcription in a manner depending on Lck and the cytoplasmic sequestration of the transcriptional repressor embryonic ectodermal development. In this study, we report that Lck is activated by Nef and targets protein kinase C theta downstream, leading to the translocation of the kinase Into membrane microdomains. Although microdomain-localized protein kinase C theta is thought to induce the transcription factor NF kappa B, we unexpectedly failed to correlate Nef-induced signaling events with enhanced NF kappa B activity. Instead, we observed an increase in ERK MAPK activity. We conclude that Nef-mediated signaling cooperates with Nef-induced derepression and supports RIV transcription through an ERK MAPK-dependent, but NF kappa B-independent, pathway. The Journal of Immunology, 2008,181: 8425-8432.
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