Involvement of vesicle-cytoskeleton interaction in AQP5 trafficking in AQP5-gene-transfected HSG cells |
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Authors: | Tada J Sawa T Yamanaka N Shono M Akamatsu T Tsumura K Parvin M N Kanamori N Hosoi K |
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Affiliation: | First Department of Internal Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. shuh@med.nihon-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | We examined the regulatory role of a reduction/oxidation (redox) control protein, thioredoxin (TRX), in tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced p38 MAP kinase activation and p38 MAP kinase-mediated cytokine expression utilizing TRX-transfected murine L929 cells (TRX14). The results showed that TNF-alpha-induced p38 MAP kinase activation and interleukin-6 (IL-6) production by TRX 14 were less than those by the parental L cells and the control transfected L cells (Neo-1). SB 203580 as the specific inhibitor for p38 MAP kinase activity inhibited TNF-alpha-induced IL-6 production by the parental L cells, indicating that TNF-alpha-activated p38 MAP kinase regulates IL-6 production by the cell lines used in this study. These results showed that overexpression of TRX negatively regulates p38 MAP kinase activation and p38 MAP kinase-mediated IL-6 production by TNF-alpha-stimulated cells, indicating that TRX is critical for p38 MAP kinase activation which regulates cytokine expression. |
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