Activation of Ras up-regulates pro-apoptotic BNIP3 in nitric oxide-induced cell death

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Nitric oxide ( NO) produced by NO synthases causes nitration and nitrosylation of cellular factors. We have shown previously that endogenously produced or exogenously added NO induces expression of BNIP3 (Bcl-2/adenovirus E1B 19kDa-interacting protein 3), leading to death of macrophages (Yook, Y.-H., Kang, K.-H., Maeng, O., Kim, T.-R., Lee, J.-O., Kang, K.-i., Kim, Y.-S., Paik, S.-G., and Lee, H. ( 2004) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 321, 298-305). We now provide evidence that Ras mediates NO-induced BNIP3 expression via the MEK/ERK/hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 pathway. (a)ras-Q61L, a constitutively active form of Ras, up-regulated BNIP3 protein expression by enhancing Bnip3 promoter activity, and ras-S17N, a dominant-negative form, and ras-C118S, an S-nitrosylation mutant, blocked NO-induced BNIP3 expression, suggesting that Ras acts downstream of NO and that NO activates Ras by nitrosylation. (b) U0126, a specific MEK inhibitor, completely abolished BNIP3 expression and the stimulation of promoter activity by NO and Ras, whereas 1H-[1,2,4] oxadiazolo[4,3-a] quinoxalin-1-one, SB203580, and wortmannin, specific inhibitors of soluble guanylyl cyclase, p38 MAPK, and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, respectively, had no effect. Ras, MEK1/2, and ERK1/2 were sequentially activated by NO treatment of macrophages. ( c) Mutation of the HIF-1-binding site (hypoxia-response element) in the Bnip3 promoter abolished BNIP3 induction, and HIF-1 alpha was strongly induced by NO. (d) Transient expression of activated Ras promoted macrophage death, as did NO, and this Ras-mediated cell death was inhibited by silencing BNIP3 expression. These results suggest that NO-induced death of macrophages is mediated, at least in part, by BNIP3 induction.
Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
Issue Date
2006-11
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION; GUANINE-NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE; C-HA-RAS; PROTEIN BNIP3; SURVIVAL RESPONSIVENESS; PANCREATIC-CANCER; GENE-EXPRESSION; BH3 DOMAIN; MACROPHAGES; HYPOXIA

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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, v.281, no.45, pp.33939 - 33948

ISSN
0021-9258
DOI
10.1074/jbc.M605819200
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/11485
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