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Rac1 Negatively Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced IL-23 p19 Expression in Human Macrophages and Dendritic Cells and NF-B p65 trans Activation Plays a Novel Role¹

Mitsuyoshi Utsugi^2,*, Kunio Dobashi, Tamotsu Ishizuka^*, Tadayoshi Kawata^*, Takeshi Hisada^*, Yasuo Shimizu^*, Akihiro Ono^* and Masatomo Mori^*

^* Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan; and Gunma University Faculty of Health Sciences, Maebashi, Japan

IL-23 is a heterodimeric cytokine composed of a unique p19 subunit and of a p40 subunit that is also common to IL-12. We defined the distinct signaling mechanisms that regulate the LPS-mediated induction of IL-23 p19 and p40 in human macrophages and dendritic cells. We found that the overexpression of dominant-negative Rac1 (N17Rac1) enhanced LPS-induced IL-23 p19 expression but did not alter p40 expression or IL-12 p70 production in PMA-treated THP-1 macrophages and in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Although the inhibition of either p38 MAPK or JNK enhanced LPS-induced p19 expression, N17Rac1 did not influence either p38 MAPK or JNK activation. By contrast, N17Rac1 augmented both NF-B gene expression and p65 trans activation stimulated by LPS without affecting the degradation of IB- or DNA binding to NF-B. Furthermore, small interference RNA of NF-B p65 attenuated cellular amounts of p65 and suppressed LPS-induced p19 expression but did not affect p40 expression. Our findings indicate that Rac1 negatively controls LPS-induced IL-23 p19 expression through an NF-B p65 trans activation-dependent, IB-independent pathway and that NF-B p65 regulates LPS-induced IL-23 p19, but not p40, expression, which causes differences in the control of IL-23 p19 and p40 expression by Rac1.

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¹ This work was supported in part by Grant 17790667 (to M.U.) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

² Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Mitsuyoshi Utsugi, Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan. E-mail address: mutsugi{at}med.gunma-u.ac.jp

³ Abbreviations used in this paper: PRR, pattern recognition receptor; DC, dendritic cell; EGFP, enhanced GFP; MD-DC, monocyte-derived DC; N17Rac1 fragment, dominant-negative Rac1 fragment; Ad.N17Rac1, adenovirus harboring N17Rac1; Ad.EGFP, control adenovirus; siRNA, small interference RNA.

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