Degradation of transcription factor Nrf2 via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and stabilization by cadmium
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Nrf2 mediates inducer-dependent activation of the heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene (Alam, J., Stewart, D., Touchard, C., Boinapally, S., Choi, A. M., and Cook, J. L. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 26071-26078), but the mechanism by which HO-1 inducers regulate Nrf2 function is not known. Treatment of mouse hepatoma (Hepa) cells with 50 microm CdCl(2) increased the amount of Nrf2 protein in a time-dependent manner; induction was observed within 30 min, prior to the accumulation of HO-1 mRNA. Cadmium did not significantly affect the steady-state level of Nrf2 mRNA or the initial rate of Nrf2 protein synthesis but increased the half-life of Nrf2 from approximately 13 to 100 min. Proteasome inhibitors, but not other protease inhibitors, enhanced the expression of Nrf2, and ubiquitinylated Nrf2 was detected after proteasome inhibition. Cycloheximide inhibited cadmium-stimulated Nrf2 expression and DNA binding activity and attenuated HO-1 mRNA accumulation. Conversely, proteasome inhibitors enhanced HO-1 mRNA and protein accumulation by a Nrf2-dependent mechanism. Together, these results indicate that Nrf2 is targeted for rapid degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and that cadmium delays the rate of Nrf2 degradation leading to ho-1 gene activation.
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Under basal conditions, Nrf2 has a short half-life of only 10-30 min.
“Under basal conditions, Nrf2 has a short half-life of only 10–30 min [50,77].”
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- Authors
- Stewart, D., Killeen, E., Naquin, R., Alam, S., & Alam, J.
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- Ochsner Medical Center (US)
- Tulane University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Alam, Jawed
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- Journal of Biological Chemistry
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2003-01
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- 278
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- 4
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- 2396-2402
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- 0021-9258 (ISSN-L)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Keywords
- Nrf2, ubiquitin-proteasome system, cadmium, heme oxygenase-1, protein degradation, protein stabilization, proteasome inhibitors, cycloheximide, DNA-binding activity, metal-induced gene expression
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cadmium, Cycloheximide, Cysteine Endopeptidases, DNA-Binding Proteins, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Multienzyme Complexes, Protein Binding, Protein Synthesis Inhibitors, RNA, RNA, Messenger, Time Factors, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Blotting, Western, Trans-Activators, Ubiquitin, Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex, NF-E2-Related Factor 2, Mice
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