P38 mitogen activated protein kinase regulates endothelial vcam 1 expression at the post transcriptional level

Item Type:	Article
Title:	P38 mitogen activated protein kinase regulates endothelial vcam 1 expression at the post transcriptional level
Creators Name:	Pietersma, A. and Tilly, B.C. and Gaestel, M. and Dejong, N. and Lee, J.C. and Koster, J.F. and Sluiter, W.
Abstract:	The cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha was found to stimulate the p38 mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase signalling cascade in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. TNFalpha increased the activity of the p38 substrate MAP kinase-activated-protein (MAPKAP) kinase 2 and the subsequent phosphorylation of the small heat shock protein Hsp27 about two to three fold. This stimulation was blocked almost completely by the specific p38 MAP kinase inhibitor SB203580. This inhibitor also suppressed the TNFalpha-induced surface expression of the endothelial adhesion molecule vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1. In contrast, inhibition of p38 MAP kinase had no effect on the stimulated surface expression of the intercellular cell adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1. VCAM-1 mRNA accumulation induced by TNFalpha was not affected by SB203580, suggesting that the p38 MAP kinase signalling cascade regulates the endothelial expression of VCAM-1 at the post-transcriptional level.
Keywords:	Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases, Cultured Cells, DNA Primers, Enzyme Activation, Enzyme Inhibitors, Heat-Shock Proteins, Imidazoles, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Kinetics, Messenger RNA, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Northern Blotting, p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Phosphorylation, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Post-Transcriptional RNA Processing, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Pyridines, Time Factors, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, Umbilical Veins, Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1, Vascular Endothelium
Source:	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
ISSN:	0006-291X
Publisher:	Academic Press
Volume:	230
Number:	1
Page Range:	44-48
Date:	3 January 1997
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1996.5886
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