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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2023

Overexpression of IκB⍺ modulates NF-κB activation of inflammatory target gene expression.

Polly Downton, James S Bagnall, Hazel England, David G Spiller, Neil E Humphreys, Dean A Jackson, Pawel Paszek, Michael R H White, Antony D Adamson

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Polly DowntonFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
James S BagnallFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Hazel EnglandFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
David G SpillerFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Neil E HumphreysGenome Editing Unit, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Dean A JacksonFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Pawel PaszekFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Michael R H WhiteFaculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Antony D AdamsonGenome Editing Unit, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I017976/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells respond to inflammatory stimuli such as cytokines by activation of the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signalling pathway, resulting in oscillatory translocation of the transcription factor p65 between nucleus and cytoplasm in some cell types. We investigate the relationship between p65 and inhibitor-κB⍺ (IκBα) protein levels and dynamic properties of the system, and how this interaction impacts on the expression of key inflammatory genes. Using bacterial artificial chromosomes, we developed new cell models of IκB⍺-eGFP protein overexpression in a pseudo-native genomic context. We find that cells with high levels of the negative regulator IκBα remain responsive to inflammatory stimuli and maintain dynamics for both p65 and IκBα. In contrast, canonical target gene expression is dramatically reduced by overexpression of IκBα, but can be partially rescued by overexpression of p65. Treatment with leptomycin B to promote nuclear accumulation of IκB⍺ also suppresses canonical target gene expression, suggesting a mechanism in which nuclear IκB⍺ accumulation prevents productive p65 interaction with promoter binding sites. This causes reduced target promoter binding and gene transcription, which we validate by chromatin immunoprecipitation and in primary cells. Overall, we show how inflammatory gene transcription is modulated by the expression levels of both IκB⍺ and p65. This results in an anti-inflammatory effect on transcription, demonstrating a broad mechanism to modulate the strength of inflammatory response.

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gene expressioninflammationIκB⍺localisationNF-κBoverexpression

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PMID37228587
PMCPMC10203502
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