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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 20, Pages 18077-18083Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M110164200
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA86926] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI42394] Funding Source: Medline
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Exposure to ultraviolet light can cause inflammation, premature skin aging, and cancer. UV irradiation alters the expression of multiple genes that encode functions to repair DNA damage, arrest cell growth, and induce apoptosis. In addition, UV irradiation inhibits protein synthesis, although the mechanism is not known. In this report, we show that UV irradiation induces phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 on the alpha-subunit (eIF2alpha) and inhibits protein synthesis in a dosage- and time-dependent manner. The UV-induced phosphorylation of eIF2alpha was prevented by the overexpression of a non-phosphorylatable mutant of eIF2alpha (S51A). PERK is an eIF2alpha protein kinase localized to the endoplasmic reticulum that is activated by the accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum. Expression of trans-dominant-negative mutants of PERK also prevented eIF2alpha phosphorylation upon UV treatment and protected from the associated translation attenuation. The luminal domain of dominant-negative mutant PERK formed heterodimers with endogenous PERK to inhibit the PERK signaling pathway. In contrast, eIF2alpha phosphorylation was not inhibited by overexpression of a trans-dominant-negative mutant kinase, PKR, supporting the theory that UV-induced eIF2alpha phosphorylation is specifically mediated by PERK. These results support a novel mechanism by which UV irradiation regulates translation via an endoplasmic reticulum-stress signaling pathway.
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