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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages 5116-5130Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-06-0576
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- Korea Research foundation [KRF-2005-084-C00025]
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation [M10533010001]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2005-084-C00025] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Type I interferons (IFNs) activate Janus tyrosine kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription pathway for exerting pleiotropic biological effects, including antiviral, antiproliferative, and immunomodulatory responses. Here, we demonstrate that filamin B functions as a scaffold that links between activated Rac1 and a c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) cascade module for mediating type I IFN signaling. Filamin B interacted with Rac1, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 1, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4, and JNK. Filamin B markedly enhanced IFN alpha-dependent Rac1 activation and the sequential activation of the JNK cascade members. Complementation assays using M2 melanoma cells revealed that filamin B, but not filamin A, is required for IFN alpha-dependent activation of JNK. Furthermore, filamin B promoted IFN alpha-induced apoptosis, whereas short hairpin RNA-mediated knockdown of filamin B prevented it. These results establish a novel function of filamin B as a molecular scaffold in the JNK signaling pathway for type I IFN-induced apoptosis, thus providing the biological basis for antitumor and antiviral functions of type I IFNs.
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