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B
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expression
1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and 2 Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
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ABSTRACT |
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Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-
is implicated in numerous cardiac pathologies, the intracellular events
leading to its production by heart cells are largely unknown. The goal
of the present study was to identify the role of the transcription factor nuclear factor (NF)-
B in this process. Among the many inducers of TNF-
expression in myeloid cells, only
lipopolysaccharide (LPS) led to its induction in cultured neonatal
myocytes. LPS also activated the NF-
B pathway, as evidenced by the
degradation of the inhibitory protein I
B and the appearance of
NF-
B-binding complexes in nuclear extracts. Furthermore, inhibitors
of NF-
B activation, such as lactacystin, MG132, and pyrrolidine
dithiocarbamate, were found to completely block the production of
TNF-
in response to LPS stimulation, indicating a requirement of
NF-
B for TNF-
expression. However, interleukin-1
and phorbol
12-myristate 13-acetate also activated NF-
B but did not evoke
TNF-
expression, revealing that this factor is not sufficient for
cytokine production. Detailed examination of the NF-
B cascade
revealed that cardiac cells displayed a unique pattern of I
B
degradation in response to LPS, with I
B
but not I
B
being
degraded upon stimulation. Additionally, two specific p65-containing
DNA-binding complexes were observed in the nuclear extracts of neonatal
cardiomyocytes: an inducible complex that is necessary for TNF-
expression and a constitutive species. Taken together, these results
reveal that NF-
B is not only involved in cytokine production but
also may be linked to other pathways that subserve a constitutive,
protective mechanism for the heart cell.
lipopolysaccharide; nuclear factor-
b; interleukin-1
; cytokine
production
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INTRODUCTION |
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TUMOR NECROSIS
FACTOR (TNF)-
is implicated in numerous cardiac pathologies.
Elevated levels of TNF-
in cardiac tissue have been observed in
ischemic heart disease, myocarditis, congestive heart failure,
dilated cardiomyopathy, and sepsis-associated cardiac dysfunction
(19). The demonstration that mice genetically engineered for cardiac-restricted overexpression of TNF-
developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, progressive chamber dilation, and eventually heart failure confirms the suspicion that TNF-
plays an effectoral rather
than a coincidental role in the progression of heart disease (1,
17).
While it has long been assumed that infiltrating macrophages were the
source of cardiac TNF-
, recent reports (13, 36) have
shown that cardiomyocytes themselves are capable producing significant
quantities of this cytokine. Because the importance of
cardiomyocyte-produced TNF-
has been under appreciated until recently, very little is known about the regulation and intracellular signaling events that underlie TNF-
expression in heart cells. While
insight has been gained about the regulation of TNF-
expression using cells of reticuloendothelial origin (7, 10, 37, 38), extrapolation of these findings is difficult because TNF-
expression is regulated in a highly cell type-specific fashion. Tellingly, even
among the closely related B and T immune cells, cell type-specific regulation of TNF-
gene expression in response to the same
extracellular signal is observed (33). In fact, several
recent studies suggest that the mechanisms that lead to induction of
TNF-
in heart cells may be significantly different from those found
in myeloid cell types. For instance, while lipopolysaccharide (LPS)
induces TNF-
expression in cardiac myocytes (13, 19),
the mechanism has been suggested to occur by a novel CD14-independent
pathway (3). In contrast to macrophage cell lines, where
nitric oxide inhibits TNF-
production (6, 8), this
messenger induces TNF-
generation in feline cardiac myocytes
(12). These studies offer a caution for making assumptions
about the regulatory mechanisms of TNF-
expression in cardiomyocytes
based upon previous studies performed upon myeloid cell types.
Nuclear factor (NF)-
B is a transcription factor that, under basal
conditions, is sequestered as an inactive form in the cytoplasm through
its interaction with inhibitory proteins (I
Bs). Stimuli lead to the
phosphorylation and subsequent proteasome-mediated degradation of
I
B. Thus liberated, NF-
B translocates to the nucleus, where
it binds to specific sequences in the promoter region of genes to
activate their transcription (9).
The NF-
B signal transduction pathway is activated in cardiomyocytes
in response to a variety of cytokines and oxidative stressors, including LPS (15), interleukin (IL)-1
(23), an ischemia-reperfusion event
(2), and nitric oxide (12). Yet, the role of
NF-
B in the transcriptional activation of the TNF-
gene remains
undefined. Several reports (10, 32) have presented strong
evidence that there is no role for NF-
B in the induction of the
TNF-
gene in response to virus or LPS in myeloid cell types. In
contrast, others have reported that inhibitors of NF-
B such as
pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) (38) and sodium
salicylate (24) suppress TNF-
gene expression. In
cardiac myocytes, target genes of NF-
B, such as IL-6, have just
recently begun to be elucidated (4). Like TNF-
expression, the biology of NF-
B has largely been characterized in
myeloid cell types (9). However, the robust activation of NF-
B in the heart in response to numerous stressors and a recent report (21) showing that inhibition of NF-
B with
"oligo binding decoys" moderates cardiac damage in response to
coronary artery ligation reveal the importance of this pathway in
cardiac pathologies.
In this study, we examined the expression of TNF-
in mouse neonatal
cardiomyocytes. It was valuable to establish this model system so that
transgenic animals, adenoviral gene transfer methods, and
mouse-specific cytokine probes could be exploited in further studies.
In particular, we focused on the relationship between NF-
B
activation and TNF-
expression. The results support a critical role
for NF-
B activation in LPS-induced TNF-
production in
cardiomyocytes. Important differences in TNF-
induction and NF-
B
activation in cardiomyocytes compared with myeloid cell lines were also
demonstrated, including the exclusive degradation of I
B
rather
than I
B
in response to LPS stimulation. The data reveal that
unique signaling mechanisms operate in cardiac cells to regulate
NF-
B activation.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Cardiomyocytes culture and reagents.
Cardiomyocytes were isolated from 1- or 2-day-old CD-1 mouse pups using
a collagenase type II (Worthington Biochemical) and pancreatin (Sigma)
double-enzyme digestion method. Briefly, hearts were removed under
aseptic conditions, washed, and placed in Ads buffer (116 mM NaCl, 20 mM HEPES, 1 mM NaH2PO4, 5.5 mM glucose, 5.5 mM
KCl, 0.8 mM MgSO4, and 5 mg/l phenol red; pH 7.35). Hearts were subjected to serial digestions of 20 min each in Ads buffer containing collagenase (360 mg/l) and pancreatin (690 mg/l) with gentle
rocking in a cell culture incubator. After each round of digestion,
hearts were allowed to settle, and the supernatant was triturated
gently upon collection, whereupon 10% horse serum was added to
terminate protease activity. The cells liberated from the first
digestion were discarded, and serial digestions were continued for four
times or as needed. Digestion supernatants were centrifuged at 700 g, and the cell pellets were resuspended in horse serum.
Multiple digestions were pooled and filtered through 2-ply sterile
gauze, followed by centrifugation at 700 g, and resuspended
in DMEM-F-12 medium containing 5% fetal bovine serum, penicillin (100 U/ml), and streptomyocin (100 µg/ml). All plating and maintenance
procedures were performed as described in detail previously
(18). All cell culture reagents were purchased from GIBCO-BRL. The antibodies used in the Western blot and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) were as follows: anti-phospho-I
B
(Ser32/36), 5A5 (both from Cell Signaling
Technology), anti-I
B
, anti-I
B
, and anti-NF-
B p65
rabbit polyclonal antibodies (all from Santa Cruz Biotechnology).
RT-PCR methods.
TNF-
transcripts were analyzed with the use of RT-PCR. After the
experimental protocols, total RNA was prepared from the cultures and
analyzed by RT-PCR as previously described (16). The
primers, designed to amplify a 354-bp portion of the mouse TNF-
transcript, were as follows: forward,
5'-TTCTGTCTACTGAACTTCGGGGTGATCGGTCC-3'; and reverse,
5'-GTATGAGATAGCAAATCGGCTGACGGTGTGGG-3' (Clontech,). cDNA was subjected
to a PCR reaction (94°C for 30 s, 60°C for 30s, and 72°C for
60 min) for 29 cycles.
Measurement of TNF-
secretion.
TNF-
concentrations in culture supernatants were measured with ELISA
using paired antibodies and a recombinant mouse TNF-
standard from
Endogen (Cambridge, MA), as previously described in detail
(11). In all experiments in which TNF-
was measured, supernatant was taken from a 35-mm culture plate containing 600 µl
medium and 2 × 106 cells and snap-frozen on dry ice
and methanol.
Western blot analyses.
Cardiomyocytes were washed with ice-cold PBS and lysed by passage
through a small 25-gauge needle followed by brief sonication in a
buffer containing 50 mM Tris buffer (pH 7.4), 1 mM EGTA, 0.1%
-mercaptoethanol, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzenesulfonyl fluoride (AEBSF), 0.8 µM aprotinin, 20 µM leupeptin, 15 µM E65, 50 µM bestatin, 10 µM pepstatin, and 0.1% Triton X-100.
The protein concentration of each sample was measured using a protein
assay dye reagent (Bio-Rad; Hercules, CA). SDS-polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis was performed using standard procedures
(25). Western blot analysis was performed using
polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Millipore; Bedford, MA) and
visualized using enhanced chemiluminescence detection reagents
(Amersham Life Science; Buckinghamshire, UK).
Nuclear protein extract and EMSA.
Nuclear extracts were prepared using a modification of an established
method (26), as briefly described below. All steps were
performed on ice or in a 4°C cold room. Myocyte cultures (35-mm
plates) were washed with PBS (pH 7.4) and allowed to incubate for 20 min in 500 µl of buffer A, which contained 10 mM HEPES (pH
7.6), 20 mM KCl, 0.1 mM EGTA, and 0.1 mM EDTA. Cells were harvested by
scraping, and the suspensions from two plates were pooled and pelleted
with centrifugation at 750 g for 1 min. Pellets were
resuspended in 40 µl of buffer A and allowed to incubate on ice for an additional 20 min. Nonidet P-40 was added to a final concentration of 0.5%, and cells were vortexed vigorously for 10 s, whereupon they were spun at 750 g for 1 min. The
supernatant was immediately removed, and 100 µl of buffer
A were used to resuspend and pellet the nuclei. The nuclear pellet
was resuspended in 5 µl of extraction buffer containing 20 mM HEPES
(pH 7.6), 450 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 0.5 mM dithiothreitol (DTT), 1 mM
AEBSF, 0.8 µM aprotinin, 20 µM leupeptin, 15 µM E65, 50 µM
bestatin, 10 µM pepstatin, and 25% glycerol. This mixture was
incubated with gentle agitation for 30 min, after which time it was
spun for 10 min at 14,500 g. The supernatants were
snap-frozen in dry ice-methanol and stored at
70°C until use in the
mobility shift assay. For mobility shift, 2-4 µg of the nuclear
extract were incubated with 20,000 counts/min (~0.5 ng) of
32P-labeled NF-
B consensus-binding site oligonucleotide
(Promega; Madison, WI) in a final volume of 10 µl in buffer
containing 175 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris (pH 7.6), 1 mM DTT, 0.3µg/µl
BSA, 0.2 µg/µl 43-mer nonspecific carrier oligonucleotide, and 10%
glycerol. After 20 min of incubation at room temperature, samples were
run at 35 mA on a 4% nondenaturing gel with the temperature maintained at <10°C via circulating 4°C water. Gels were dried, and
autoradiography was performed with intensifying screens to visualize
DNA-protein complexes.
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RESULTS |
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TNF-
production by murine neonatal cardiomyocyte culture.
Experiments were designed to determine whether murine neonatal myocyte
cultures release TNF-
. Initial results revealed that significant
cytokine release was detected at doses of the endotoxin LPS as low as
10 ng/ml; yet higher doses (5 µg/ml) yielded the most reproducible
results between cultures. As shown in the time course in Fig.
1A, TNF-
was detected in
the culture medium within 1 h after LPS application, reached
maximal values (595 ± 14.8 pg/mg protein, equivalent to 52.3 pg/ml culture media) within 5 h, and declined to undetectable
levels by 24 h. In parallel experiments in which media were
removed and replaced with fresh aliquots, TNF-
release was complete
by 5 h (data not shown). Thus there was a decline in the levels of
TNF-
released in the initial 5 h over the subsequent 19 h
(Fig. 1A). This is consistent with our recent report
(28) that showed that TNF-
is cleared from the culture
medium, either degraded or internalized, in a cell-dependent manner in
cultures of a macrophage cell line.
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protein secretion in response to LPS was
accompanied by the appearance of TNF-
mRNA transcript, as determined
by RT-PCR (Fig. 1B). Total RNA was prepared from cells after
a 1.5-h treatment with LPS because preliminary results indicated that
the NF-
B pathway was activated at this time (see Fig.
3, below). Thus cultured mouse cells
produce TNF-
in response to LPS, and this stimulation can be
explained in part by an increase in transcription.
Effect of NF-
B inhibitors and activators on TNF-
secretion by
LPS-stimulated cardiomyocytes.
The specificity of the TNF-
response in cardiac cells was assessed
by examining the action of agents known to induce TNF-
expression in
myeloid cells (9, 29). As shown in Fig.
2A, only LPS evoked TNF-
secretion, whereas established activators such as IL-1
,
H2O2, or okadaic acid were inactive at 5 h. These other agents were ineffective at times between 1 and 12 h
as well (data not shown). Although none of these other agents alone
stimulated TNF-
production, the phosphatase inhibitors okadaic acid
and calyculin A enhanced LPS-induced TNF-
release ~2.5-fold (Fig. 2B). Dose-response studies with okadaic acid and calyculin A
indicated that 33 and 10 nM, respectively, were the lowest
concentrations to maximally stimulate LPS-induced TNF
production
(data not shown).
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NF-
B activation in cardiomyocytes.
While LPS elicited TNF-
production, the failure of established
myeloid cell activators of NF-
B, such as okadaic acid, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), or IL-1
(35), to evoke
cytokine production in cardiac cells cast doubt on the role of this
transcription factor in promoting TNF-
production. To clarify the
role of NF-
B, a series of experiments was performed that critically
examined its activation in cardiac cells. Because proteasome-directed
degradation of I
Bs is a well-characterized early step in NF-
B
activation (35), we examined I
B
and I
B
levels
after LPS application. As shown in the Western blots in Fig.
3A, when the cells were exposed to LPS during a 1-h
interval, there was no decrease in either I
B
or I
B
. The
experiments in Fig. 3A detect net levels of I
B; yet it
has been reported that I
B
can be rapidly resynthesized in
response to NF-
B activation (9). Thus it may be that
I
B turnover is best seen when protein synthesis is inhibited.
Accordingly, a series of parallel experiments was performed in the
presence cyclohexamide. As shown in Fig. 3B, LPS did evoke
marked decreases I
B
levels at 60 and 90 min. In contrast, under
these conditions, I
B
levels were maintained.
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B
represents the primary pool of
LPS-responsive NF-
B regulatory protein in cardiac cells. To explore this issue in more detail, an additional series of experiments was
performed where cultures were stimulated for 5 h, corresponding to
the functional release studies shown in Fig. 1. Whereas cyclohexamide alone had no effect on I
B levels in control cells (Fig. 3,
C and D, lane 2), LPS application
resulted in a selective decrease in I
B
of 75% with no change in
I
B
(compare summary data in Fig. 3D, lanes
3 and 4). Thus cylcohexamide treatment alone cannot account for the loss in inhibitor proteins that is seen. The
proteasomal degradation of I
B
was confirmed in lanes 5 and 6 (Fig. 3, C and D) because
lactacystin completely blocked the loss of I
B
in LPS-treated cells.
The stability of I
B
in cardiac cells was unexpected. Thus this
observation was explored in more detail with the use of an I
B
-phospho-specific antibody. As shown in Fig.
4A, when cells were exposed to
LPS, no phosphorylation of I
B
at Ser32/36 could be
detected even when blots were developed for 1 h. In contrast,
positive controls with TNF-
-stimulated NIH/3T3 cells revealed that
under the same Western blotting conditions, marked phospho-I
B
could be readily detected with only 1.5-min chemiluminescent exposures.
Thus an early step in LPS-stimulated NF-
B activation is the decrease
of I
B
rather than I
B
in cardiac cells.
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B was further examined in nuclear
extracts by EMSA with a consensus NF-
B-binding oligonucleotide. Two
prominent gel-shifted complexes were found in nuclear extracts from
LPS-stimulated myocytes (Fig.
5A): a low-mobility complex (labeled "a") that is induced by LPS and a higher
mobility complex (labeled "b") that is constitutively
present. In addition, an intermediate mobility complex (labeled
"
") was sometimes observed. These complexes, a and
b, appear specific because the labels were effectively
competed with 50-fold excess of cold oligonucleotide. Furthermore, an
antibody against the NF-
B protein component p65 disrupted and
supershifted both complexes, revealing that they contained p65 protein
(Fig. 5A). Further examination of these complexes included a
direct comparison between myocyte and cell line RAW 264.7 nuclear
extracts by EMSA. As shown in Fig. 4C, the nuclear
complexes a and b were not equivalent to those
found in this mouse myeloid cell type. The possibility that okadaic acid enhanced LPS-induced TNF-
production (as seen in Fig.
2B) through increased activation of NF-
B was also tested
in Fig. 5A. No increase in the level of NF-
B, above that
seen for LPS alone, was observed in response to okadaic acid treatment.
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production though stimulation of the NF-
B pathway.
Yet, such a relation between NF-
B and TNF-
production was
inconsistent with the failure of IL-1
and PMA to induce TNF-
in
heart cells (Fig. 2A). When NF-
B activation was directly
evaluated in response to IL-1
and PMA (Fig. 5B), both
were found to induce nuclear NF-
B complex a binding
activity. The robust activation of NF-
B by IL-1
and PMA, stimuli
that are not accompanied by TNF-
production, suggested two possible
explanations. First, it is possible that the NF-
B activation that
accompanies LPS stimulation is coincidental and has no role in the
induction of TNF-
. Alternatively, NF-
B may represent one of
several necessary factors that are coordinated to bring about TNF-
production. The latter is consistent with the complex array of
transcription factors found to interact with the TNF-
promoter
(33, 38).
To address the question in more detail, the effects of inhibitors of
the NF-
B pathway were examined. LPS stimulation of NF-
B complex a was blocked by concomitant treatment of cardiac
cells with the proteasome inhibitors lactacystin and MG132 (Fig.
6, A and B).
Additionally, PDTC, an antioxidant previously described as a distinctly
different type of inhibitor of NF-
B in myeloid cells
(38), also blocked the appearance of LPS-induced nuclear NF-
B complex a (Fig. 6B). Importantly, under
the same conditions, lactacystin and MG132 blocked LPS-evoked TNF-
production by essentially 100% (Fig. 7).
Similarly, PDTC, at a concentration known to inhibit NF-
B (100 µM), was also an effective inhibitor of TNF-
induction. Thus
several distinctly different agents that share a common property of
NF-
B inhibition also inhibit TNF-
production in cardiac cells.
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DISCUSSION |
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The importance of identifying the intracellular signaling cascades
that underlie the production of TNF-
in cardiac myocytes is based on
the growing appreciation that this pleotropic cytokine is linked to the
pathogenesis of several cardiac diseases, such as myocardial
infarction, congestive heart failure, myocarditis, ischemia-reperfusion, and dilated cardiomyopathy
(19). Substantial insight into the molecular elements of
TNF-
production and the NF-
B stress response has been derived
from studies on myeloid cell types (7, 10, 37, 38).
However, because such molecular signaling is highly cell type specific,
it is not possible to extrapolate this information to the cellular
context of the cardiac myocyte (33). Accordingly, in this
study, we used a model system of LPS-stimulated TNF-
production to
identify crucial elements in the NF-
B signaling cascade in cultured
cardiac cells. Our findings identify an inducible NF-
B nuclear
complex that plays a key role in TNF-
production by myocytes. Also,
unexpectedly, it was found that degradation of the inhibitory regulator
protein I
B
, rather than I
B
, was the major source of
inducible NF-
B in cardiomyocyte cells. Finally, we identified
multiple NF-
B-binding components in the myocyte nucleus, which
included an inducible and constitutively expressed p65-containing
complex. Taken together, these results have important implications not
only for the signaling pathways that regulate cardiac responses to
stress but also for those that modulate apoptosis in myocytes
as well.
Through a series of coordinated experiments, a link between TNF-
production and activation of the NF-
B pathway was observed. Several
initial experiments suggested that NF-
B signaling may not be
involved in cardiomyocyte TNF-
production. In particular, only LPS,
and not other established NF-
B activators such as okadaic acid,
IL-1
, H2O2, and PMA, was found to induce
TNF-
expression in cardiomyocytes. Furthermore, the surprising
failure of LPS to cause degradation of I
B
did not support the
model of an NF-
B-mediated response. However, more detailed analyses
underscored the importance of NF-
B activation in TNF-
expression.
First, LPS stimulated the degradation of I
B
(Fig. 4) and the
appearance of an inducible NF-
B-binding complex in the nucleus (Fig.
5). Second, pharmacological inhibitors that inhibit NF-
B activation
through distinctly different mechanisms, proteasome inhibitors as well
as the antioxidant PDTC, were found to block I
B degradation,
NF-
B-binding activity in the nucleus, and TNF-
release. Thus
TNF-
production is strongly correlated with activation of that
NF-
B pathway in the heart.
However, it is also clear that stimulation of cytokine production
involves more than NF-
B activation alone. For example, while the
classic myeloid cell stimulators IL-1
and PMA induced the
translocation of a NF-
B-binding complex to the nucleus in myocytes,
this was not sufficient to stimulate TNF-
production. Further
results with phosphatase inhibitors, which potentiated LPS-induced
TNF-
production 2.5-fold without effecting NF-
B signaling, also
clearly point to the importance of other signaling factors that
converge in TNF-
production. These data support the view that
TNF-
production requires additional signals beyond the activation of
NF-
B in heart cells. LPS receptors (Toll-like receptor 4) engage
many of the same signaling components as the IL-1 receptor, such as the
IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (30), consistent with the
NF-
B responses seen here for both agents. Thus the differences in
TNF-
production may lie in posttranscriptional regulation. In that
regard, mitogen-associated protein kinases, including p38
mitogen-activated kinase and Jun NH2-terminal kinase, have
been reported to control TNF-
translation in response to LPS
(34). It is also important to note the most LPS signaling pathways are derived in studies with membrane-bound CD14 endotoxin receptors, whereas signaling in cardiac cells requires soluble CD14
receptors (30). Recently, Kalra and co-workers
(12) demonstrated that nitric oxide stimulates NF-
B and
supports TNF-
production in cardiomyocytes (12). Taken
together, it is clear that other signaling mechanisms that underlie
LPS-mediated TNF-
production, including posttranscriptional
regulation, need to be defined in cardiac myocytes.
Detailed studies on the stability of the inhibitory regulators of
NF-
B, the I
Bs, revealed a novel pattern of I
B regulation in
cardiac cells. Although typically the nuclear translocation of NF-
B
depends on and is parallel to the degradation of I
B
(14,
20), studies reported here showed that levels of I
B
, and
its low phosphorylation state, were remarkably stable after LPS-evoked
NF-
B stimulation in myocytes. In contrast, I
B
is the more
labile form, with its degradation correlating with the appearance of
both LPS- and IL-1
-induced nuclear NF-
B complex a
(Figs. 5 and 6). The results reported here establish the importance of
I
B
degradation in the stress responses in the heart.
It was important to confirm the activation of NF-
B directly by
assessing the appearance of nuclear NF-
B-binding components. NF-
B
binding gel-shift assays revealed multiple binding components in
cardiac cells, consistent with the reports of several groups (5,
12, 31). Thus, in addition to a stimulated nuclear binding
complex, a constitutively expressed complex was detected as well.
Although this latter complex may indeed be nonspecific, several lines
of evidence suggest that it is biologically relevant. It is restricted
to the nuclear fraction, labeling was blocked by an unlabeled NF-
B
consensus oligonucleotide, and its mobility was supershifted by
anti-p65 antibody. It is interesting to note that a constitutive
NF-
B-binding component has been reported in mature B cells, plasma
cells, and some neurons (9, 27). This finding is also
consistent with a significant basal NF-
B transcriptional activity,
which we have seen in cardiac cells (data not shown). The role of this
constitutive component is unclear, but a recent report
(22) showing that NF-
B plays a role in preventing
apoptosis in cardiac myocytes provides a hint of the relevance
of this finding. It will be important to determine if this complex is
indeed biologically relevant in cardiac cells.
In conclusion, we examined molecular elements of the stress responses
in cardiac cells by critically examining the role of the NF-
B
signaling pathway in the production of TNF-
. Taken together, the
data indicate that NF-
B is necessary in combination with other
coordinated signaling events for LPS-induced TNF-
production in
cardiomyocytes. In addition, it was observed that important features of
NF-
B signaling pathway activation and the mechanisms underlying
TNF-
expression are distinct to the cardiomyocyte. Further
characterization of these pathways will reveal important molecular
elements of the responses of cardiac cells to stress and in the
regulation of the apoptosis cascade.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants AG-14637 and HL-27867 (to T. B. Rogers) and Predoctoral Training Grant T32 AR-07592 (to G. Hall), an American Heart Association, Maryland Affiliate, Postdoctoral Fellowship (to G. Wright), and the University of Maryland MD/PhD Program (to G. Hall).
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FOOTNOTES |
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Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: T. B. Rogers, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Univ. of Maryland, 108 N. Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21201 (E-mail: trogers{at}umaryland.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
10.1152/ajpheart.00256.2001
Received 28 March 2001; accepted in final form 31 October 2001.
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