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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 287, Issue 5, Pages F1049-F1058Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00132.2004
Keywords
reactive oxygen species; epidermal growth factor receptor; mitogen-activated protein kinase; histone H3; heat shock protein 27
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 59491] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P30 ES 06694, P30 ES 07784] Funding Source: Medline
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2,3,5-Tris-(glutathion-S-yl) hydroquinone (TGHQ), a reactive metabolite of the nephrotoxicant hydroquinone, induces the ROS-dependent activation of MAPKs, followed by histone H3 phosphorylation and oncotic cell death in renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (LLC-PK1). Cell death and histone H3 phosphorylation are attenuated by pharmacological inhibition of p38 MAPK or ERK1/2 pathways. Because TGHQ, but not epidermal growth factor (EGF), induces histone H3 phosphorylation and cell death in LLC-PK1 cells, we hypothesized that there are differences in the mechanisms by which TGHQ and EGF induce activation of the EGF receptor (EGFR). We therefore compared the relative ability of TGHQ, H2O2, and EGF to activate EGFR and MAPKs and found that p38 MAPK activation is EGFR independent, whereas ERK1/2 activation occurs mainly through EGFR activation. TGHQ, H2O2, and EGF induce different EGFR tyrosine phosphorylation profiles that likely influence the subsequent differential kinetics of MAPK activation. We next transfected LLC-PK1 cells with a dominant negative p38 MAPK-expressing plasmid (pcDNA3-DNp38). TGHQ failed to induce phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and its substrate, MK-2, in pcDNA3-DNp38-transfected cells, indicating loss of function of p38 MAPK. In untransfected, pcDNA3 or pcDNA3-p38 (native)-transfected LLC-PK1 cells, Hsp27 was intensively phosphorylated after TGHQ treatment, whereas in pcDNA3-DNp38-transfected cells, TGHQ failed to induce Hsp27 phosphorylation. Thus EGFR-independent p38 MAPK and EGFR-dependent ERK1/2 activation by TGHQ lead to the activation of two downstream signaling factors, i.e., histone H3 and Hsp27 phosphorylation, which have in common the potential ability to remodel chromatin.
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