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  2. IL-3-Induced Immediate Expression of c- fos and c- jun Is Modulated by the IKK2-JNK Axis

IL-3-Induced Immediate Expression of c- fos and c- jun Is Modulated by the IKK2-JNK Axis

  • Cells. 2022 Apr 25;11(9):1451. doi: 10.3390/cells11091451.
Hirotaka Fujita 1 Toshitsugu Fujita 1 Hodaka Fujii 1
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Biochemistry and Genome Biology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Aomori, Japan.
Abstract

Interleukin (IL)-3 is a pleiotropic cytokine that regulates the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of hematopoietic cells. The binding of IL-3 to its receptor activates intracellular signaling, inducing transcription of immediate early genes (IEGs) such as c-fos, c-jun, and c-myc; however, transcriptional regulation under IL-3 signaling is not fully understood. This study assessed the role of the inhibitor of nuclear factor-κB kinases (IKKs) in inducing IL-3-mediated expression of IEGs. We show that IKK1 and IKK2 are required for the IL-3-induced immediate expression of c-fos and c-jun in murine hematopoietic Ba/F3 cells. Although IKK2 is well-known for its pivotal role as a regulator of the canonical nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway, activation of IKKs did not induce the nuclear translocation of the NF-κB transcription factor. We further revealed the important role of IKK2 in the activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), which mediates the IL-3-induced expression of c-fos and c-jun. These findings indicate that the IKK2-JNK axis modulates the IL-3-induced expression of IEGs in a canonical NF-κB-independent manner.

Keywords

IKK; IL-3; JNK; immediate early gene.

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