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HEPATOLOGY
卷 57, 期 2, 页码 817-828出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26068
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- UK Medical Research Council (MRC) [G0900535]
- UK MRC [G0700890]
- Wellcome Trust [WT084961MA, WT 087961]
- Cancer Research UK [12750] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K001949/1, G0900535, G0700890] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/K001949/1, G0700890, G0900535] Funding Source: UKRI
Phosphorylation of the RelA subunit at serine 536 (RelA-P-Ser536) is important for hepatic myofibroblast survival and is mechanistically implicated in liver fibrosis. Here, we show that a cell-permeable competing peptide (P6) functions as a specific targeted inhibitor of RelA-P-Ser536 in vivo and exerts an antifibrogenic effect in two progressive liver disease models, but does not impair hepatic inflammation or innate immune responses after lipopolysaccharide challenge. Using kinase assays and western blotting, we confirm that P6 is a substrate for the inhibitory kappa B kinases (IKKs), IKK alpha and IKK beta, and, in human hepatic myofibroblasts, P6 prevents RelA-P-Ser536, but does not affect IKK activation of I kappa B alpha. We demonstrate that RelA-P-Ser536 is a feature of human lung and skin fibroblasts, but not lung epithelial cells, in vitro and is present in sclerotic skin and diseased lungs of patients suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Conclusion: RelA-PSer536 may be a core fibrogenic regulator of fibroblast phenotype. (HEPATOLOGY 2013; 57:817-828)
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