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Role of RHOB in the antiproliferative effect of glucocorticoid receptor on macrophage RAW264.7 cells.

Abstract
Although glucocorticoid (GC) has been reported to inhibit macrophage killing activity and cytokine production in response to proinflammatory stimuli, the effect of GC on macrophage proliferation is controversial. In our previous study, we found that inhibition of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression in murine macrophage cell line RAW264.7 cells (RAW-GR(-) cells) by RNAi significantly promoted cell proliferation. In the present study, we provide the evidence that the expression of Rhob, a member of Rho GTPases with anti-cancer character, remarkably decreased in RAW-GR(-) and RAW264.7 cells transiently transfected with GR-RNAi vector. Overexpression or constitutive activation of Rhob in RAW-GR(-) and RAW264.7 cells by transfection with wild-type Rhob expression vector (Rhob-wt) or constitutively activated Rhob plasmid (Rhob-V14) resulted in decreased proliferation of the two cell lines. Oppositely, the proliferation of RAW264.7 cells was significantly increased when the expression of Rhob by RNA interference technique or the activity of Rhob by transfection with dominant negative Rhob mutant that is defective in nucleotide binding (Rhob-N19) was inhibited. In addition, enhanced activity of Akt, but not MAPK3/1 or MAPK14, was found in RAW-GR(-) cells. Blocking the pathway of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt with the specific inhibitor LY294002 decreased the proliferation and elevated RHOB protein level, indicating that PI3K/Akt signal plays its role of proliferation modulation upstream of RHOB protein. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that Rhob plays an important role in the antiproliferative effect of GR on RAW264.7 cells by GR-->Akt-->Rhob signaling and Rhob negatively regulates the proliferation of RAW264.7 cells.
AuthorsXiaohui Wang, Yuxia Chen, Yan Wang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yuanyuan Ma, Shimin Zhang, Jian Lu
JournalThe Journal of endocrinology (J Endocrinol) Vol. 200 Issue 1 Pg. 35-43 (Jan 2009) ISSN: 1479-6805 [Electronic] England
PMID18840672 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Receptors, Glucocorticoid
  • rhoB GTP-Binding Protein
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Gene Expression
  • Humans
  • Macrophages (cytology, immunology, metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Neoplasms (genetics, immunology, metabolism, physiopathology)
  • Protein Binding
  • Receptors, Glucocorticoid (genetics, immunology, metabolism)
  • Signal Transduction
  • rhoB GTP-Binding Protein (genetics, metabolism)

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