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Dithiocarbamates as potent inhibitors of nuclear factor kappa B activation in intact cells.

The Journal of experimental medicine ·Vol. 175 ·No. 5 ·1992-05-01 ·Pages 1181-94

Schreck R, Meier B, Männel DN, Dröge W, Baeuerle PA

Abstract

Dithiocarbamates and iron chelators were recently considered for the treatment of AIDS and neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we show that dithiocarbamates and metal chelators can potently block the activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B), a transcription factor involved in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) expression, signaling, and immediate early gene activation during inflammatory processes. Using cell cultures, the pyrrolidine derivative of dithiocarbamate (PDTC) was investigated in detail. Micromolar amounts of PDTC reversibly suppressed the release of the inhibitory subunit I kappa B from the latent cytoplasmic form of NF-kappa B in cells treated with phorbol ester, interleukin 1, and tumor necrosis factor alpha. Other DNA binding activities and the induction of AP-1 by phorbol ester were not affected. The antioxidant PDTC also blocked the activation of NF-kappa B by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), suggesting a role of oxygen radicals in the intracellular signaling of LPS. This idea was supported by demonstrating that treatment of pre-B and B cells with LPS induced the production of O2- and H2O2. PDTC prevented specifically the kappa B-dependent transactivation of reporter genes under the control of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat and simian virus 40 enhancer. The results from this study lend further support to the idea that oxygen radicals play an important role in the activation of NF-kappa B and HIV-1.

MeSH Terms
Base Sequence Cell Line Chelating Agents/pharmacology DNA Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Humans Lipopolysaccharides/metabolism Molecular Sequence Data NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors Pyrrolidines/pharmacology Superoxides/metabolism Thiocarbamates/pharmacology Transcriptional Activation/drug effects
Chemicals
Chelating Agents Lipopolysaccharides NF-kappa B Pyrrolidines Thiocarbamates Superoxides pyrrolidine dithiocarbamic acid DNA
Authors & Affiliations
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Schreck R
Laboratorium für Molekulare Biologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Martinsried, Germany.
Meier B
Männel D N
Dröge W
Baeuerle P A
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Article Info
Journal
The Journal of experimental medicine
Abbr.
J Exp Med
ISSN
0022-1007
DOI
10.1084/jem.175.5.1181
Published
1992-05-01
Pages
1181-94
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985109R
PMCID
PMC2119220
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1084/jem.175.5.1181 PMC Full Text View journal details
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