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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 173, Issue 11, Pages 6973-6980Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.11.6973
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We have identified a novel signaling pathway that leads to expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in murine macrophages in response to the bacterial endotoxin, LPS. We showed that p38 kinase was essential for this induction and observed that LPS-induced MMP-9 expression was sensitive to rottlerin, a putative protein kinase CE (PKCdelta) inhibitor. However neither infection with a retrovirus expressing a dominant negative mutant of PKCSdelta nor down-regulation of PKCdelta by prolonged PMA treatment affected MMP-9 expression, thus excluding involvement of PKCdelta. Interestingly, LPS-induced MMP-9 expression and p38 kinase phosphorylation were shown to be suppressed by the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine and the fiavoenzyme inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium chloride, but not by pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, an NF-kappaB inhibitor. In addition, LIPS was found to induce the production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) and this effect was rottlerin-sensitive, suggesting an inhibitory effect of rottlerin on mitochondrial ROS. LPS-induced MMP-9 expression and p38 kinase phosphorylation were also inhibited by rotenone, a specific inhibitor of mitochondrial complex 1, supporting the role of mitochondrial ROS in LPS signaling to MMP-9. Finally, we showed that the ROS-p38 kinase cascade targets the transcription factor AP-1. Taken together, our findings identify a ROS-p38 kinase-AP-1 cascade as a novel pathway mediating LPS signaling to MMP-9 expression in macrophages.
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