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Citation

  • Authors: Aguilera-Aguirre, L., Bacsi, A., Radak, Z., Hazra, T. K., Mitra, S., Sur, S., Brasier, A. R., Ba, X., Boldogh, I.
  • Year: 2014
  • Journal: J Immunol 193 4643-53
  • Applications: in vitro / siRNA / INTERFERin
  • Cell types:
    1. Name: A549
      Description: Human lung carcinoma cells, type II pneumocytes
      Known as: A-549
    2. Name: hNBEC (human normal bronchial epithelial cells)
    3. Name: MLE 12
      Description: Murine lung SV40 transformed cells
      Known as: MLE-12
    4. Name: Mouse primary lung fibroblasts

Method

20-40 nM siRNA, depending on the cells used

Abstract

8-Oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1) is the primary enzyme for repairing 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) via the DNA base excision repair pathway (OGG1-BER). Accumulation of 8-oxoG in the genomic DNA leads to genetic instability and carcinogenesis and is thought to contribute to the worsening of various inflammatory and disease processes. However, the disease mechanism is unknown. In this study, we proposed that the mechanistic link between OGG1-BER and proinflammatory gene expression is OGG1's guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity, acquired after interaction with the 8-oxoG base and consequent activation of the small GTPase RAS. To test this hypothesis, we used BALB/c mice expressing or deficient in OGG1 in their airway epithelium and various molecular biological approaches, including active RAS pulldown, reporter and Comet assays, small interfering RNA-mediated depletion of gene expression, quantitative RT-PCR, and immunoblotting. We report that the OGG1-intiated repair of oxidatively damaged DNA is a prerequisite for GDP-->GTP exchange, KRAS-GTP-driven signaling via MAP kinases and PI3 kinases and mitogen-stress-related kinase-1 for NF-kappaB activation, proinflammatory chemokine/cytokine expression, and inflammatory cell recruitment to the airways. Mice deficient in OGG1-BER showed significantly decreased immune responses, whereas a lack of other Nei-like DNA glycosylases (i.e., NEIL1 and NEIL2) had no significant effect. These data unveil a previously unidentified role of OGG1-driven DNA BER in the generation of endogenous signals for inflammation in the innate signaling pathway.

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