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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 45, Pages 35377-35383Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M005287200
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The signaling pathway by which environmental stresses activate heat shock factors (HSFs) is not completely understood. We show that the small GTPase rad, and Rad-regulated reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in stress-stimulated heat shock response. A dominant-negative allele of Rad (Rac1N17) inhibits the hypoxia/reoxygenation and sodium arsenite-induced transcriptional activity of HSF-1 and the transcription of heat shock protein 70. Rac1N17 also suppresses the production of intracellular ROS induced by hypoxia/reoxygenation or sodium arsenite. Moreover, direct suppression of intracellular ROS levels by antioxidants decreases stress-stimulated HSF activity. However, expression of a constitutively active mutant of Rad (Rac1V12) in the absence of extracellular stresses does not increase intracellular ROS levels or induce the heat shock response. These results show that Rad is a necessary but insufficient component of the stress-induced signaling pathway that leads to ROS production, activation of HSFs, and transcription of heat shock proteins.
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