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. 2004 Mar 15;378(Pt 3):919–928. doi: 10.1042/BJ20031587

Induced oxidative stress and activated expression of manganese superoxide dismutase during hepatitis C virus replication: role of JNK, p38 MAPK and AP-1.

Ishtiaq Qadri 1, Mieko Iwahashi 1, Juan M Capasso 1, Matthew W Hopken 1, Sonia Flores 1, Jerome Schaack 1, Francis R Simon 1
PMCID: PMC1224028  PMID: 14670077

Abstract

Activation of cellular kinases and transcription factors mediates the early phase of the cellular response to chemically or biologically induced stress. In the present study we investigated the oxidant/antioxidant balance in Huh-7 cells expressing the HCV (hepatitis C virus) subgenomic replicon, and observed a 5-fold increase in oxidative stress during HCV replication. We used MnSOD (manganese-superoxide dismutase) as an indicator of the cellular antioxidant response, and found that its activity, protein levels and promoter activity were significantly increased, whereas Cu/ZnSOD was not affected. The oxidative stress-induced protein kinases p38 MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) and JNK (c-Jun N-terminal kinase) were activated in the HCV repliconcontaining cells and in Huh-7 cells transduced with Ad-NS5A [a recombinant adenovirus encoding NS5A (non-structural protein 5A)], coupled with a 4-5-fold increase in AP-1 (activator protein-1) DNA binding. Ava.1 cells, which encode a replication-defective HCV replicon, showed no significant changes in MnSOD, p38 MAPK or JNK activity. The AP-1 inhibitors dithiothreitol and N -acetylcysteine, as well as a dominant negative AP-1 mutant, significantly reduced AP-1 activation, demonstrating that this activation is oxidative stress-related. Exogenous NS5A had no effect on AP-1 activation in vitro, suggesting that NS5A acts at the upstream targets of AP-1 involving p38 MAPK and JNK signalling cascades. AP-1-dependent gene expression was increased in HCV subgenomic replicon-expressing Huh-7 cells. MnSOD activation was blocked by inhibitors of JNK (JNKI1) and p38 MAPK (SB203580), but not by an ERK (extracellular-signal-regulated kinase) inhibitor (U0126), in HCV-replicating and Ad-NS5A-transduced cells. Our results demonstrate that cellular responses to oxidative stress in HCV subgenomic replicon-expressing and Ad-NS5A-transduced cells are regulated by two distinct signalling pathways involving p38 MAPK and JNK via AP-1 that is linked to increased oxidative stress and therefore to an increased antioxidant MnSOD response.

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