Title
NF-κB Transcriptional Activity is Modulated by FK506-binding Proteins FKBP51 and FKBP52: A Role for Peptidyl-prolyl Isomerase Activity
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Hsp90-binding immunophilins FKBP51 and FKBP52 modulate steroid receptor trafficking and hormone-dependent biological responses. With the purpose to expand this model to other nuclear factors that are also subject to nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling, we analyzed whether these immunophilins modulate NF-κB signalling. It is demonstrated that FKBP51 impairs both the nuclear translocation rate of NF-κB and its transcriptional activity. Neither the peptidylprolyl-isomerase activity nor Hsp90-binding is required for the inhibitory action of FKBP51, but the TPR domain. On the other hand, FKBP52 favors the nuclear retention time of RelA, its association to a DNA consensus binding sequence, and NF-κB transcriptional activity, the latter effect being strongly dependent on the peptidylprolyl-isomerase activity and also on the TPR domain of FKBP52, but its interaction with Hsp90 is not required. In unstimulated cells, FKBP51 forms endogenous complexes with cytoplasmic RelA. Upon cell stimulation with phorbol-ester, the NF-κB soluble complex exchanges FKBP51 for FKBP52 and the NF-κB biological effect is triggered. Importantly, FKBP52 is functionally recruited to the promoter region of NF-κB target genes, whereas FKBP51 is released. Competition assays demonstrated that both immunophilins antagonize one another, and binding assays with purified proteins suggest that the association of RelA and immunophilins could be direct. These observations suggest that the biological action of NF-κB in different cell types could be positively regulated by a high FKBP52/FKBP51 expression ratio by favoring NF-κB nuclear retention, recruitment to the promoter regions of target genes, and transcriptional activity.
Comments
Erlejman AG, De Leo SA, Mazaira GI, Molinari AM, Camisay MF, Fontana VA, Cox MB, Piwien-Pilipuk G, Galigniana MD. NF-κB transcriptional activity is modulated by FK506-binding proteins FKBP51 and FKBP52: A role for peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2014 August 07.