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  • Title: Inhibition of low density lipoprotein receptor expression by long-term exposure to phorbol ester via p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway.
    Author: Oh J, Choi YS, Kim JW, Park JY, Kim SW, Park KK, Pak YK.
    Journal: J Cell Biochem; 2005 Nov 01; 96(4):786-94. PubMed ID: 16149074.
    Abstract:
    The proximal region -234 to (+58 bp) of low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) is responsible for its up-regulation by sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP). However, the mechanism of sterol-independent repression of LDLR has not been determined yet. In this study, we observed that there was an early induction and a later repression of LDLR by phorbol ester (PMA) in SK-Hep1 hepatocarcinoma cells and investigated the mechanisms through which PMA repressed LDLR transcription. SK-Hep1 cells were exposed to PMA and LDLR mRNA was evaluated by RT-PCR and Northern blot analysis. The effect of phorbol ester on LDLR transcriptional activity was studied using transient transfection of LDLR promoter-luciferase constructs. Overexpression of N-SREBP-2, a dominant positive SREBP2, did not reverse the PMA-repressed LDLR promoter activity. Serial deletion of LDLR promoter revealed that the region between -1,563 and -1,326 was responsible for the repression. The pretreatment with SB202190, an inhibitor for p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway (p38-MAPK), but not other signaling inhibitors, reversed the PMA-induced repression. The 24 h-treatment with PMA efficiently arrested the SK-Hep1 cell cycle at G0/G1 as demonstrated by FACS analysis and decreased the 3H-thymidine incorporation. The PMA-induced repression of LDLR transcription may be exerted by the factor(s), not SREBP2, induced or modified by p38-MAPK-mediated signaling pathway and associated with cell cycle blockage.
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