Involvement of Egr-1/RelA synergy in distinguishing T cell activation from tumor cecrosis factor-α-induced NF-κB1 transcription

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Abstract

NF-κB is an important transcription factor required for T cell proliferation and other immunological functions. The NF-κB1 gene encodes a 105-kD protein that is the precursor of the p50 component of NF-κB. Previously, we and others have demonstrated that NF-κB regulates the NF- κB1 gene. In this manuscript we have investigated the molecular mechanisms by which T cell lines stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and phytohemagglutin (PHA) display significantly higher levels of NF-κB1 encoding transcripts than cells stimulated with tumor necrosis factor-α, despite the fact that both stimuli activate NF-κB. Characterization of the NF-κB1 promoter identified an Egr-1 site which was found to be essential for both the PMA/PHA-mediated induction as well as the synergistic activation observed after the expression of the RelA subunit of NF-κB1 and Egr-1. Furthermore, Egr-1 induction was required for endogenous NF-κB1 gene expression, since PMA/PHA-stimulated T cell lines expressing antisense Egr-1 RNA were inhibited in their ability to upregulate NF-κb1 transcription. Our studies indicate that transcriptional synergy mediated by activation of both Egr-1 and NF-κB may have important ramifications in T cell development by upregulating NF-κB1 gene expression.

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Cogswell, P. C., Mayo, M. W., & Baldwin, A. S. (1997). Involvement of Egr-1/RelA synergy in distinguishing T cell activation from tumor cecrosis factor-α-induced NF-κB1 transcription. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 185(3), 491–497. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.185.3.491

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