scholarly journals Fyn and p38 Signaling Are Both Required for Maximal Hypertonic Activation of the Osmotic Response Element-binding Protein/Tonicity-responsive Enhancer-binding Protein (OREBP/TonEBP)

2002 ◽  
Vol 277 (48) ◽  
pp. 46085-46092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben C. B. Ko ◽  
Amy K. M. Lam ◽  
András Kapus ◽  
Lingzhi Fan ◽  
Sookja K. Chung ◽  
...  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 703-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Gallazzini ◽  
Gary E. Heussler ◽  
Margarita Kunin ◽  
Yuichiro Izumi ◽  
Maurice B. Burg ◽  
...  

When activated by high NaCl, tonicity-responsive enhancer–binding protein/osmotic response element–binding protein (TonEBP/OREBP) increases transcription of osmoprotective genes. High NaCl activates TonEBP/OREBP by increasing its phosphorylation, nuclear localization, and transactivating activity. In HEK293 cells, mass spectrometry shows phosphorylation of TonEBP/OREBP-S120, -S134, -T135, and -S155. When those residues are individually mutated to alanine, nuclear localization is greater for S155A, less for S134A and T135A, and unchanged for S120A. High osmolality increases phosphorylation at T135 in HEK293 cells and in rat renal inner medullas in vivo. In HEK293 cells, high NaCl activates cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5), which directly phosphorylates TonEBP/OREBP-T135. Inhibition of CDK5 activity reduces the rapid high NaCl–induced nuclear localization of TonEBP/OREBP but does not affect its transactivating activity. High NaCl induces nuclear localization of TonEBP/OREBP faster (≤2 h) than it increases its overall protein abundance (≥6 h). Inhibition of CDK5 reduces the increase in TonEBP/OREBP transcriptional activity that has occurred by 4 h after NaCl is raised, associated with less nuclear TonEBP/OREBP at that time, but does not reduce either activity or nuclear TonEBP/OREBP after 16 h. Thus high NaCl–induced increase of the overall abundance of TonEBP/OREBP, by itself, eventually raises its effective level in the nucleus, but its rapid CDK5-dependent nuclear localization accelerates the process, speeding transcription of osmoprotective target genes.


2000 ◽  
Vol 270 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben C.B. Ko ◽  
Christoph W. Turck ◽  
Karen W.Y. Lee ◽  
Yinqing Yang ◽  
Stephen S.M. Chung

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