Chumakov Alexey M, Silla Agnes, Williamson Elizabeth A, Koeffler H Phillip
Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Blood. 2007 May 15;109(10):4209-19. doi: 10.1182/blood-2005-09-031963. Epub 2007 Jan 25.
C/EBP epsilon is a transcription factor involved in myeloid cell differentiation. Along with C/EBP-alpha, -beta, -gamma, -delta, and -zeta, C/EBP-epsilon belongs to the family of CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins that are implicated in control of growth and differentiation of several cell lineages in inflammation and stress response. We have previously shown that C/EBP-epsilon preferentially binds DNA as a heterodimer with other C/EBP family members such as C/EBP-delta, CHOP (C/EBP-zeta), and the b-zip family protein ATF4. In this study, we define the consensus binding sites for C/EBP-epsilon dimers and C/EBP-epsilon-ATF4 heterodimers. We show that the activated NFkappaB pathway promotes interaction of the C/EBP-epsilon subunit with its cognate DNA binding site via interaction with RelA. RelA-C/EBP interaction is enhanced by phosphorylation of threonine at amino acid 75 and results in increased DNA binding compared with the wild-type nonphosphorylated C/EBP both in vitro and in vivo. We suggest that interaction of the activated NFkappaB pathway and C/EBP-epsilon may be important in selective activation of a subset of C/EBP-epsilon-responsive genes.
C/EBPε是一种参与髓样细胞分化的转录因子。与C/EBPα、β、γ、δ和ζ一起,C/EBPε属于CCAAT/增强子结合蛋白家族,该家族与炎症和应激反应中几种细胞谱系的生长和分化控制有关。我们之前已经表明,C/EBPε作为异二聚体与其他C/EBP家族成员(如C/EBPδ、CHOP(C/EBPζ)和b-zip家族蛋白ATF4)优先结合DNA。在本研究中,我们定义了C/EBPε二聚体和C/EBPε-ATF4异二聚体的共有结合位点。我们表明,活化的NFκB途径通过与RelA相互作用促进C/EBPε亚基与其同源DNA结合位点相互作用。与野生型未磷酸化的C/EBP相比,RelA-C/EBP相互作用通过苏氨酸75位的磷酸化增强,并且在体外和体内均导致DNA结合增加。我们认为活化的NFκB途径与C/EBPε的相互作用可能在C/EBPε反应性基因子集的选择性激活中起重要作用。