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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 51, Pages 51150-51158Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M305501200
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C/EBPbeta, a member of the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) family, is one of the key transcription factors responsible for the induction of a wide array of genes, some of which play important roles in innate immunity, inflammatory response, adipocyte and myeloid cell differentiation, and the acute phase response. Three C/EBPbeta isoforms (i.e. LAP*, LAP, and LIP) were known to arise from differential translation initiation and display different functions in gene regulation. C/EBPbeta is known to induce interleukin (IL)-6 gene when P388D1 cells are treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Exactly how the transcriptional activities of C/EBPbeta isoforms are involved in the regulation of the IL-6 gene remains unclear. Here we report that LPS-induced expression of IL-6 gene in P388D1 cells is mediated by a redox switch-activated LAP*. The intramolecular disulfide bonds of LAP* and LAP have been determined. Among the cysteine residues, amino acid 11 (Cys(11)) of LAP* plays key roles for determining the overall intramolecular disulfide bonds that form the basis for redox switch regulation. The DNA binding activity and transcriptional activity of LAP* are enhanced under reducing condition. LAP and LIP, lacking 21 and 151 amino acids, respectively, in the N-terminal region, are not regulated in a similar redox-responsive manner. Our results indicate that LAP* is the primary isoform of C/EBPbeta that regulates, through a redox switch, the LPS-induced expression of the IL-6 gene.
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