Vol. 284, Issue 5, C1133-C1139, May 2003
Interferon-
induces C/EBP
expression and activity
through MEK/ERK and p38 in T84 colon epithelial cells
Pertteli
Salmenperä1,
Sammy
Hämäläinen1,
Mika
Hukkanen2, and
Esko
Kankuri1
Departments of 1 Pharmacology and
2 Anatomy, Institute of Biomedicine, FIN-00014
University of Helsinki, Finland
We investigated the role of
IFN-
and MAPKs on the expression and activity of the transcription
factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-beta (C/EBP
) in the T84 colon
epithelial cell line. IFN-
induced the expression and activity of
C/EBP
and subsequently increased the secretion of IL-6 from these
cells. Treatment with the p38 inhibitor SB-203580, the MEK1 and MEK2
inhibitor U-0126, or the translational inhibitor cycloheximide
inhibited the induction of C/EBP
and IL-6 by IFN-
, whereas the
MEK1 inhibitor PD-98059 or the tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein had
no effect. These results suggest a role for MEK2 and p38 in
IFN-
-mediated signal transduction and induction of C/EBP
expression and activity associated with interleukin-6 (IL-6) secretion
in colon epithelial cells.
CCAAT-enhancer binding protein-
; colon epithelial cells,
interferon-
; interleukin-6; mitogen-activated protein kinases