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CHUNG, SOONKYU, Ph. D. Mechanisms by Which Conjugated ...

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AD90 cultures treated with LPS. Consistent with the inflammatory cytokine expression<br />

profile in Fig 4.4B, the degree to which LPS induced the phosphorylation of IκBα kinase<br />

(IKK), JNK, and ERK, and the degradation of IκB decreased as the degree of<br />

differentiation increased from ~0–90% (Fig 4.7). NFκB and MAPK activation reached<br />

its maximum after 1 h of LPS treatment in all three models, albeit at much lower levels in<br />

the AD50 and AD90 cultures compared to the AD0 cultures. These data provide<br />

additional evidence that the presence of preadipocytes in cultures of human adipocytes<br />

modulates the susceptibility of LPS-induced NFκB and MAPK activation that trigger<br />

cytokine production.<br />

Next, we determined the extent to NFκB and MAPK activation contributed to the<br />

LPS-inducted cytokine expression using the selective chemical inhibitors of NFκB and<br />

MAPK. LPS is known to act as TLR4/2, in (pre)adipocytes (Lin et al. 2000), which<br />

triggers NFκB activation through MAPK and phosphatidyl 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT<br />

pathway (Guha et al. 2002; Fang et al. 2004). As seen in Fig 4.8A, the proteasome<br />

inhibitor MG132 abolished LPS-induced TNF-α gene expression, implicating<br />

proteasomal degradation of IκBα is crucial for NFκB activation and subsequent<br />

induction of TNF-α gene expression in human adipocytes. MG132 treatment also<br />

decreased the expression of IL-6 and IL-8, genes also regulated <strong>by</strong> NFκB, but not to the<br />

extent of TNF-α. The MEK/ERK inhibitor U0126, and the JNK inhibitor DMAP also<br />

attenuated LPS-induced cytokine production. The PI3K inhibitor LY-294002 blocked<br />

LPS-induced TNF-α gene expression <strong>by</strong> ~50%, but had only minimal effects on IL-6 or<br />

IL-8. Collectively, these results suggest that NFκB and MAPK activation and signaling<br />

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