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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 5, Pages 3065-3068Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C100685200
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We demonstrate that lipopolysaccharide-induced tumor necrosis factor (TNF) biosynthesis becomes independent of MAPKAP kinase 2 (AM) when the AU-rich element (ARE) of the TNF gene is deleted. In spleen cells and macrophages where TNF biosynthesis is restored as a result of this deletion, interleukin (IL)-6 biosynthesis is still dependent on AM. In AM-deficient macrophages the half-life of IL-6 mRNA is reduced more than 10-fold, whereas the half-life of TNF mRNA is only weakly decreased. It is shown that the stability of a reporter mRNA carrying the AU-rich 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) of IL-6 is increased by MK2. The data provide in vivo evidence that the AU-rich 3'-UTRs of TNF and IL-6 are downstream to AM signaling and make AM an essential component of mechanisms that regulate biosynthesis of IL-6 at the levels of mRNA stability, and of TNF mainly through TNF-ARE-dependent translational control.
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