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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
Expression and activity of the germinal center kinase [corrected] SLK are increased during kidney development and recovery from renal ischemia-reperfusion injury. SLK promotes apoptosis, in part, via pathway(s) involving apoptosis signal-regulating kinase-1 and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase. This study addresses the role of p53 as a potential effector of SLK. p53 transactivation was measured after transient transfection of a luciferase reporter plasmid that contains a p53 cis-acting enhancer element. Overexpression of SLK in COS-1 cells and cotransfection of SLK and p53-wild type (wt) cDNAs in glomerular epithelial cells (GECs) stimulated p53 transactivational activity, as measured by a p53 response element-driven luciferase reporter. In GECs, chemical anoxia followed by glucose reexposure (in vitro ischemia-reperfusion) increased p53 reporter activity, and this increase was amplified by overexpression of SLK. Expression of SLK induced p53 phosphorylation on serine (S)-33 and S315. In GECs, cotransfection of SLK with p53-wt, p53-S33A, p53-S315A, or p53-S33A+S315A mutants showed that only the double mutation abolished the SLK-induced increase in p53 reporter activity. SLK-induced stimulation of p53 reporter activity was attenuated by inhibition of JNK. Overexpression of SLK amplified apoptosis induced by subjecting cells to in vitro ischemia-reperfusion injury, while ectopic expression of a dominant negative SLK mutant attenuated the ischemia-reperfusion-induced apoptosis. The p53 transactivation inhibitor pifithrin-alpha significantly attenuated the amount of apoptosis after ischemia-reperfusion and SLK overexpression. Thus SLK induces p53 phosphorylation and transactivation, which enhances apoptosis after in vitro ischemia-reperfusion injury.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1522-1466
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
297
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
F971-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-4-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Anoxia, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Dogs, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-MAP Kinase Signaling System, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Reperfusion Injury, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Transcriptional Activation, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, pubmed-meshheading:19640899-p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
The Ste20-like kinase SLK promotes p53 transactivation and apoptosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Div. of Nephrology, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Ave. West, Montreal, Quebec H3A1A1, Canada. andrey.cybulsky@mcgill.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't