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Upregulation of immunoproteasomes by nitric oxide: potential antioxidative mechanism in endothelial cells. Free Radic Biol Med 2006 Mar 15;40(6):1034-44

Date

03/17/2006

Pubmed ID

16540399

DOI

10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.10.052

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-33644852960 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   88 Citations

Abstract

Nitric oxide (*NO) was shown to stimulate the proteasomal function and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and to ameliorate endothelial apoptotic signaling induced by oxidants. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms by which *NO stimulates proteasomes and affords cytoprotection in endothelial cells has therapeutic implications, as many vascular diseases are characterized by a deficiency in *NO. Here we report that *NO/cGMP/cAMP-induced immunoproteasome subunit expression is responsible for the increased proteasomal activities. Cells pretreated with protein kinase G and protein kinase A inhibitors markedly attenuated *NO-dependent proteasome activation. Results show that the *NO/cGMP/cAMP signaling mechanism enhanced the phosphorylation of the transcription factor cAMP-response element-binding protein, elevated the cAMP-response element-promoter activity and induced the expression of immunoproteasomal subunits (LMP2 and LMP7). *NO-dependent proteasomal activity was abrogated in cells transfected with antisense LMP2 and LMP7 oligonucleotides. Lower levels of LMP2 and LMP7 were detected in aorta of iNOS(-/-) mice compared to wild-type controls, suggesting that endogenous production of *NO is important in the basal regulation of immunoproteasome. The *NO/cGMP/cAMP signaling pathway mitigates transferrin-iron-mediated oxidative stress and apoptosis through induction of immunoproteasomes. These results provide new insights on the regulatory mechanisms by which the *NO-mediated immunoproteasome signaling pathway affords cytoprotection in endothelial cells.

Author List

Kotamraju S, Matalon S, Matsunaga T, Shang T, Hickman-Davis JM, Kalyanaraman B

Author

Balaraman Kalyanaraman PhD Professor in the Biophysics department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Animals
Antioxidants
Apoptosis
Cattle
Cyclic AMP
Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Type II
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
Cyclic GMP
Cysteine Endopeptidases
Endothelium, Vascular
Humans
Hydrogen Peroxide
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mice, Knockout
Multienzyme Complexes
Nitric Oxide
Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II
Oxidative Stress
Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
Signal Transduction
Up-Regulation