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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2001, p. 6999-7009, Vol. 21, No. 20
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.20.6999-7009.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Novel Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase Is an Important Negative Regulator of Lipopolysaccharide-Mediated c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Activation in Mouse Macrophage Cell Lines

Tetsuya Matsuguchi,1,* Tipayaratn Musikacharoen,1 Thomas R. Johnson,2 Andrew S. Kraft,2 and Yasunobu Yoshikai1

Laboratory of Host Defense and Germfree Life, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan,1 and Department of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado 802622

Received 27 February 2001/Returned for modification 30 March 2001/Accepted 26 June 2001

We have isolated a cDNA homologous to known dual-specificity phosphatases from a mouse macrophage cDNA library and termed it MKP-M (for mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase isolated from macrophages). Three other presumed splice variant isoforms have also been identified for MKP-M. The longest and most abundant mRNA contains an open reading frame corresponding to 677 amino acids and produces an 80-kDa protein. The deduced amino acid sequence of MKP-M is most similar to those of hVH-5 (or mouse M3/6) and VHP1, a Caenorhabditis elegans tyrosine phosphatase. It includes an N-terminal rhodanase homology domain, the extended active-site sequence motif (V/L)X(V/I)HCXAG(I/V)SRSXT(I/V)XXAY(L/I)M (where X is any amino acid), and a C-terminal PEST sequence. Northern blot analysis revealed a dominant MKP-M mRNA species of approximately 5.5 kb detected ubiquitously among all tissues examined. MKP-M was constitutively expressed in mouse macrophage cell lines, and its expression levels were rapidly increased by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation but not by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha ), gamma interferon, interleukin-2 (IL-2), or IL-15 stimulation. Immunocytochemical analysis showed MKP-M to be present within cytosol. When expressed in COS7 cells, MKP-M blocks activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases with the selectivity c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) p38 = extracellular signal-regulated kinase. Furthermore, expression of a catalytically inactive form of MKP-M in a mouse macrophage cell line increased the intensity and duration of JNK activation and TNF-alpha secretion after LPS stimulation, suggesting that MKP-M is at least partially responsible for the desensitization of LPS-mediated JNK activation and cytokine secretion in macrophages.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Host Defense and Germfree Life, Research Institute for Disease Mechanism and Control, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. Phone: (052) 744-2447. Fax: (052) 744-2449. E-mail: tmatsugu{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp.


Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2001, p. 6999-7009, Vol. 21, No. 20
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.20.6999-7009.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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