Project description:Developmental signals are known to modulate inflammation. How ever, the mechanistic insight that links developmental and inflammatory signaling remains elusive. In the current study, we identifya critical role of NF-kB system in mediating stimulus specific crosstalk that allows developmental LTbR signals to sustain inflammatory TLR4 induced RelA/NF-kB response and gene expression. LTbR activated non-canonical signaling targets canonical TLR4 induced, nfkb2 encoded p100 not only to deplete inhibitory IkBd/(p100)2, but also to supplement RelA:p52/NF-kB dimers. Robust crosstalk in the gut epithelial cells are important, as crosstalk-defective nfkb2-/- mice succumbed to gut infection by Citrobacter rodentium due to hypo-inflammatory responses. Finally, we present evidence for a crosstalk motif that integrates tissue microenvironment derived developmental cues to ameliorate the pathogen response. Total RNA from WT early passage MEFs stimulated with ligands LPS, LTbR and LPS+LTbR for 24hrs were analyzed for global gene expression levels
Project description:Developmental signals are known to modulate inflammation. How ever, the mechanistic insight that links developmental and inflammatory signaling remains elusive. In the current study, we identifya critical role of NF-kB system in mediating stimulus specific crosstalk that allows developmental LTbR signals to sustain inflammatory TLR4 induced RelA/NF-kB response and gene expression. LTbR activated non-canonical signaling targets canonical TLR4 induced, nfkb2 encoded p100 not only to deplete inhibitory IkBd/(p100)2, but also to supplement RelA:p52/NF-kB dimers. Robust crosstalk in the gut epithelial cells are important, as crosstalk-defective nfkb2-/- mice succumbed to gut infection by Citrobacter rodentium due to hypo-inflammatory responses. Finally, we present evidence for a crosstalk motif that integrates tissue microenvironment derived developmental cues to ameliorate the pathogen response.
Project description:The canonical NF-kB module induces nuclear translocation of RelA heterodimers from the latent cytoplasmic complexes. RelA directs inflammatory immune responses against microbial entities. However, aberrant RelA activity also triggers destructive inflammation, including those associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). What provokes this pathological RelA activity remains unclear. As such, the noncanonical NF-kB pathway activates RelB heterodimers and mediates immune organogenesis. Because NF-kB-activating pathways are interlinked, we asked if noncanonical NF-kB signaling exacerbated intestinal inflammation. Our investigation revealed recurrent engagement of the noncanonical pathway in human IBD. In a mouse model of chemical colitis, the noncanonical NF-kB signaling gene Nfkb2 aggravated inflammation by amplifying the RelA activity induced in intestinal epithelial cells. Our mechanistic studies clarified that noncanonical signaling augmented the abundance of latent RelA complexes leading to hyperactive canonical NF-kB response in the colitogenic gut. In sum, latent dimer homeostasis appears to link noncanonical NF-kB signaling to RelA-driven inflammatory pathologies.
Project description:Gram negative endotoxin Lypopolysaccharide (LPS) leads to a strong innate immune response through TLR4 signalling. This latter pathway activates cannonical NF-kB pathway, including its member RELA. Here, we want to investigate the RELA response in terms of DNA binding as well as epigenetic changes induced by LPS recognition.
Project description:The five NF-kB family members and three nuclear IkB proteins play diverse biological roles, but the mechanisms by which distinct NF-kB and NF-kB: IkB complexes contribute to selective gene transcription remain poorly understood. Using nascent transcript RNA-seq, we observed considerable overlap between p50-dependent and IkBz-dependent genes in Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-activated macrophages. Key inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes, including Il6, Il1b, Nos2, Lcn2, and Batf, were among the p50-IkBz co-dependent genes. IkBz typically bound genomic sites occupied earlier by NF-kB dimers. However, p50-IkBz co-dependence did not coincide with preferential binding of either protein, as p50, IkBz, and RelA co-occupied thousands of sites. A common feature of p50-IkBz co-dependent genes was close proximity to a p50/RelA/IkBz co-bound site exhibiting p50-dependent binding of RelA and IkBz. This result and others suggest that IkBz function is not restricted to p50 homodimers. Notably, IkBz and the p50-IkBz target genes comprise a high percentage of genes that exhibited the greatest differential expression between TLR4-stimulated and tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)-stimulated macrophages, with ectopic IkBz rescuing a subset of these genes. These results reveal a defined p50-IkBz pathway that selectively activates a set of key inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes and serves as an important contributor to the differential responses to TNFR and TLR4.
Project description:The five NF-kB family members and three nuclear IkB proteins play diverse biological roles, but the mechanisms by which distinct NF-kB and NF-kB:IkB complexes contribute to selective gene transcription remain poorly understood. Using nascent transcript RNA-seq, we observed considerable overlap between p50-dependent and IkBz-dependent genes in Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-activated macrophages. Key inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes, including Il6, Il1b, Nos2, Lcn2, and Batf, were among the p50-IkBz co-dependent genes. IkBz typically bound genomic sites occupied earlier by NF-kB dimers. However, p50-IkBz co-dependence did not coincide with the preferential binding of either protein, as p50, IkBz, and RelA co-occupied thousands of sites. A common feature of p50-IkBz co-dependent genes was close proximity to a p50/RelA/IkBz co-bound site exhibiting p50-dependent binding of RelA and IkBz. This result and others suggest that IkBz function is not restricted to p50 homodimers. Notably, IkBz and the p50-IkBz target genes comprise a high percentage of genes that exhibited the greatest differential expression between TLR4-stimulated and tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)-stimulated macrophages, with ectopic IkBz rescuing a subset of these genes. These results reveal a defined p50-IkBz pathway that selectively activates a set of key inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes and serves as an important contributor to the differential responses to TNFR and TLR4.
Project description:Gram negative endotoxin Lypopolysaccharide (LPS) leads to a strong innate immune response through TLR4 signalling. This latter pathway activates cannonical NF-kB pathway, including its member RELA. Here, we want to investigate the gene expression response induced by LPS recognition.
Project description:The treatment of chronic mucocutaneous ulceration is challenging and only some patients respond selectively to inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a). TNF-a activates opposing pathways leading to caspase-8-mediated apoptosis as well as NF-kB-dependent cell survival. We investigated the etiology of autosomal dominant mucocutaneous ulceration in a family whose proband was dependent on anti-TNF-a therapy for sustained remission. A heterozygous mutation in RELA (NM_021975: c.559+1G>A), encoding the NF-kB subunit RelA (p65), segregated with the disease phenotype and resulted in RelA haploinsufficiency. The patients’ fibroblasts exhibited increased apoptosis in response to TNF-a, impaired NF-kB activation, and defective expression of NF-B-dependent anti-apoptotic genes. We show that Rela+/- mice have similarly impaired NF-kB activation, develop cutaneous ulceration from TNF-a exposure, and exhibit severe dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis ameliorated by TNF-a inhibition. These findings demonstrate an essential contribution of biallelic RELA expression in protecting stromal cells from TNF-a-mediated cell death, thus delineating the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of TNF-a inhibition in this disease.
Project description:The inhibitor of kB kinase (IKK) is the master regulator of the nuclear factor kB (NF-kB) pathway, involved in inflammatory, immune and apoptotic responses. In the ‘canonical’ NF-kB pathway, IKK phosphorylates inhibitor of kB (IkB) proteins and this triggers ubiquitin-mediated degradation of IkB, leading to release and nuclear translocation of NF-B transcription factors.
The data presented show that the IKK and IKK subunits recognize a YDDX docking site located within the disordered C-terminal region of IkBa. Our results also suggest that IKK contributes to the docking interaction with higher affinity as compared to IKK.
Project description:In this study, we demonstrated dysregulation of DNA transcription in H3K4me3 histone in circulating neutrophils of HIV-infected subjects. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIPseq) H3K4me3 histone analysis revealed that the most spectacular abnormalities were observed in the exons, introns and promoter-TSS regions. Bioinformatic analysis of Gene Ontology, including biological processes, molecular function and cellular components, demonstrated that the main changes were related to the genes responsible for cell activation, cytokine production, adhesive molecule expression, histone remodeling via upregulation of methyltransferase process and downregulation of NF-kB transcription factor in canonical pathways. Abnormalities within H3K4me3 implicated LPS-mediated NF-kB canonical activation pathway that was a result of low amounts of kB DNA sites within histone H3K4me3, low NF-kB (p65 RelA) and TLR4 mRNA expression as well as reduced free NF-kB (p65 RelA) accumulation in the nucleus. ‘Panoramic view of the landscape gene’ within histone H3K4me3 led us postulate that impairment within the canonical NF-kB cell activation pathway may be the primary phenomenon responsible for neutrophil dysfunction observed in HIV-infected individuals