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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tanno, Masaya
• Bassi, Rekha
• Gorog, Diana A
• Saurin, Adrian T
• Jiang, Jie
• Heads, Richard J
• Martin, Jody L
• Davis, Roger J
• Flavell, Richard A
• Marber, Michael S

Titel

Diverse Mechanisms of Myocardial p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activation: Evidence for MKK-Independent Activation by a TAB1-Associated Mechanism Contributing to Injury During Myocardial Ischemia

Ist Teil von

• Circulation research, 2003-08, Vol.93 (3), p.254-261

Ort / Verlag

Hagerstown, MD: American Heart Association, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ABSTRACT—The ischemic activation of p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38α-MAPK) is thought to contribute to myocardial injury. Under other circumstances, activation is through dual phosphorylation by MAPK kinase 3 (MKK3). Therefore, the mkk3 murine heart should be protected during ischemia. In retrogradely perfused mkk3 and mkk3 mouse hearts subjected to 30 minutes of global ischemia and 120 minutes of reperfusion, infarction/risk volume was similar (50±5 versus 51±4, P =0.93, respectively), as was intraischemic p38-MAPK phosphorylation (10 minutes ischemia as percent basal, 608±224 versus 384±104, P =0.43, respectively). This occurred despite undetectable activation of MKK3/6 in mkk3 hearts. However, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced p38-MAPK phosphorylation was markedly diminished in mkk3 vs mkk3 hearts (percent basal, 127±23 versus 540±267, respectively, P =0.04), suggesting an MKK-independent activation mechanism by ischemia. Hence, we examined p38-MAPK activation by TAB1-associated autophosphorylation. In wild-type mice and mkk3 mice, the p38-MAPK catalytic site inhibitor SB203580 (1 μmol/L) diminished phosphorylation during ischemia versus control (10 minutes ischemia as percent basal, 143±2 versus 436±96, P =0.003, and 122±25 versus 623±176, P =0.05, respectively) and reduced infarction volume (infarction/risk volume, 57±5 versus 36±3, P <0.001, and 50±5 versus 29±3, P =0.003, respectively) but did not alter TNF-induced activation, although in homogenates of ischemic hearts but not TNF-exposed hearts, p38-MAPK was associated with TAB1. Furthermore, adenovirally expressed wild-type and drug-resistant p38α-MAPK, lacking the SB203580 binding site, was phosphorylated when H9c2 myoblasts were subjected to simulated ischemia. However, SB203580 (1 μmol/L) did not prevent the phosphorylation of resistant p38α-MAPK. These findings suggest the ischemic activation of p38-MAPK contributing to myocardial injury is by TAB1-associated autophosphorylation.