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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 425, Issue 2, Pages 357-362Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.07.096
Keywords
p38 MAPK; HSP70; Protein-protein interaction; Stress
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- The National Key Basic Research (973) Program of China [2010CB529704]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) [IRT0731]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30700291, 81171958, 81030055, 30670828]
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p38 MAPK, one of the four MAPK subfamilies in mammalian cells, is activated by environmental stresses and pro-inflammatory cytokines, playing fundamental roles in many biological processes. Despite all that is known on the structure and functions of p38, many questions still exist. The coupling of activation and nuclear translocation represents an important aspect of p38 signaling. In our effort in exploring the potential chaperone for p38 translocation, we performed an endogenous pull-down assay and identified HSP70 as a potential interacting protein of p38. We confirmed the interaction, between p38 and HSP70 in vitro and in vivo, and identified their interaction domains. We also showed stress-induced nuclear co-localization of these two proteins. Our preliminary result indicated that HSP70 was related to the phosphorylation of MK2, a specific nuclear downstream target of p38, suggesting HSP70 is a potential chaperone for the nuclear translocation of p38. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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