Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688-0002
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activated the RelA (p65) subunit of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) over many hours postinfection. The initial activation coincided with phosphorylation and degradation of IκBα, the cytoplasmic inhibitor of RelA. During persistent activation of NF-κB at later times in infection, syntheses of inhibitors IκBα as well as IκBβ were restored. However, the resynthesized IκBβ was in an underphosphorylated state, which apparently prevented inhibition of NF-κB. Use of specific inhibitors suggested that the pathway leading to the persistent—but not the initial—activation of NF-κB involved signaling through protein kinase C (PKC) and reactive oxygen intermediates of nonmitochondrial origin, whereas phospholipase C or D played little or no role. Thus, RSV infection led to the activation of NF-κB by a biphasic mechanism: a transient or early activation involving phosphorylation of the inhibitor IκB polypeptides, and a persistent or long-term activation requiring PKC and the generation of hypophosphorylated IκBβ. At least a part of the activation was through a novel mechanism in which the viral phosphoprotein P associated with but was not dephosphorylated by protein phosphatase 2A and thus sequestered and inhibited the latter. We postulate that this led to a net increase in the phosphorylation state of signaling proteins that are responsible for RelA activation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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