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Protein kinase D protects against oxidative stress-induced intestinal epithelial cell injury via Rho/ROK/PKC- pathway activation

¹Department of Surgery and ²Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Submitted 27 September 2005 ; accepted in final form 10 January 2006

Protein kinase D (PKD) is a novel protein serine kinase that has recently been implicated in diverse cellular functions, including apoptosis and cell proliferation. The purpose of our present study was 1) to define the activation of PKD in intestinal epithelial cells treated with H₂O₂, an agent that induces oxidative stress, and 2) to delineate the upstream signaling mechanisms mediating the activation of PKD. We found that the activation of PKD is induced by H₂O₂ in both a dose- and time-dependent fashion. PKD phosphorylation was attenuated by rottlerin, a selective PKC- inhibitor, and by small interfering RNA (siRNA) directed against PKC-, suggesting the regulation of PKD activity by upstream PKC-. Activation of PKD was also blocked by a Rho kinase (ROK)-specific inhibitor, Y-27632, as well as by C3, a Rho protein inhibitor, demonstrating that the Rho/ROK pathway also mediates PKD activity in intestinal cells. In addition, H₂O₂-induced PKC- phosphorylation was inhibited by C3 treatment, further suggesting that PKC- is downstream of Rho/ROK. Interestingly, H₂O₂-induced intestinal cell apoptosis was enhanced by PKD siRNA. Together, these results clearly demonstrate that oxidative stress induces PKD activation in intestinal epithelial cells and that this activation is regulated by upstream PKC- and Rho/ROK pathways. Importantly, our findings suggest that PKD activation protects intestinal epithelial cells from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. These findings have potential clinical implications for intestinal injury associated with oxidative stress (e.g., necrotizing enterocolitis in infants).

Rho kinase; protein kinase C-

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