Glucocorticoid receptor signaling contributes to constitutive activation of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway in term human placenta

Our recent study demonstrated that constitutively activated RelB/NF-κB2 positively regulates the CRH in the human placenta. In the current study, we explored the role of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) signaling in constitutive activation of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway. A glucocorticoid response element (GRE) motif search suggests that both NF-κB inducing kinase (NIK) and RelB genes, which are key regulators of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway, have a putative GRE within their promoter, approximately 1 kb upstream from the transcription start site. By using chromatin immunoprecipitation assay we identified that the GR and phosphorylated GR at Ser211 were associated with the GREs of both NIK and RelB. Dexamethasone stimulated expression of NIK, RelB, NF-κB2 as well as CRH and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). Repression of GR by short interfering RNA resulted in inhibition of NIK, RelB, NF-κB2, CRH, and COX-2. In addition, depletion of GR attenuated glucocorticoid-mediated up-regulation of NIK, RelB, NF-κB2, CRH, and COX-2. Furthermore, siRNA specifically targeting NIK down-regulated CRH and COX-2. Taken together, these results suggest that constitutive activation of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway in term human placenta is driven by the GR signaling, which in turn up-regulates placental CRH and other NF-κB-responsive genes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) - 27(2013), 2 vom: 14. Feb., Seite 203-11

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Bingbing [VerfasserIn]
Palomares, Kristy [VerfasserIn]
Parobchak, Nataliya [VerfasserIn]
Cece, John [VerfasserIn]
Rosen, Max [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Anh [VerfasserIn]
Rosen, Todd [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

147337-75-5
7S5I7G3JQL
9015-71-8
Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone
Cyclooxygenase 2
Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors
Dexamethasone
EC 1.14.99.1
EC 2.7.11.1
Journal Article
NF-kappa B
NF-kappa B p52 Subunit
PTGS2 protein, human
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
RELB protein, human
Receptors, Glucocorticoid
Transcription Factor RelB

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Date Completed 08.07.2013

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1210/me.2012-1309

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM223441295