Jm. Lacorte et al., REPRESSION OF APOC-III GENE-EXPRESSION BY TNF-ALPHA INVOLVES C EBP-DELTA/NF-IL6-BETA VIA AN IL-1 INDEPENDENT PATHWAY/, FEBS letters, 415(2), 1997, pp. 217-220
Apolipoproteins A-II and C-III, which participate in the control of ch
olesterolemia and triglyceridemia, are negative acute phase proteins,
Treatment of HepG2 cells with TNF alpha showed that apoA-II and apoC-I
II mRNA levels were decreased, Using transient transfection, we found
that apoC-III gene expression is controlled at the transcriptional lev
el. By competition and supershift experiments, we demonstrate that TNF
alpha-induced complexes mere related to C/EBP delta/NF-IL6 beta and p
50 and that overexpression of C/EBP delta was able to reproduce the in
hibitory effect of TNF alpha on the apoC-III promoter, RT-PCR failed t
o detect the IL-1 transcript in TNF alpha-treated HepG2 cells, suggest
ing that activation of C/EBP delta by TNF alpha is not related to the
IL-1-signalling pathway. (C) 1997 Federation of European Biochemical S
ocieties.