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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 159, Issue 6, Pages 1019-1028Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200207149
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myotrophin; NF-kappa B; PKC; cardiac hypertrophy; signal transduction
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA92650, R01 CA092650] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL R01 47794] Funding Source: Medline
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The transcription factor nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) regulates expression of a variety of genes involved in immune responses, inflammation, proliferation, and programmed cell death (apoptosis). Here, we show that in rat neonatal ventricular cardiomyocytes, activation of NF-kappaB is involved in the hypertrophic response induced by myotrophin, a hypertrophic activator identified from spontaneously hypertensive rat heart and cardiomyopathic human hearts. Myotrophin treatment stimulated NF-kappaB nuclear translocation and transcriptional activity, accompanied by IkappaB-alpha phosphorylation and degradation. Consistently, myotrophin-induced NF-kappaB activation was enhanced by wild-type IkappaB kinase (IKK) beta and abolished by the dominant-negative IKKbeta or a general PKC inhibitor, calphostin C. importantly, myotrophin-induced expression of two hypertrophic genes (atrial natriuretic factor [ANF] and c-myc) and also enhanced protein synthesis were partially inhibited by a potent NF-kappaB inhibitor, pyrrolidine dithio-carbamate (PDTC), and calphostin C. Expression of the dominant-negative form Of IkappaB-alpha or IKKbeta also partially inhibited the transcriptional activity of ANF induced by myotrophin. These findings suggest that the PKC-IKK-NF-kappaB pathway may play a critical role in mediating the myotrophin-induced hypertrophic response in cardiomyocytes.
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