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Roles of STAT3 in protein secretion pathways during the acute-phase response.

Abstract
The acute-phase response is characteristic of perhaps all infections, including bacterial pneumonia. In conjunction with the acute-phase response, additional biological pathways are induced in the liver and are dependent on the transcription factors STAT3 and NF-κB, but these responses are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that pneumococcal pneumonia and other severe infections increase expression of multiple components of the cellular secretory machinery in the mouse liver, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) translocon complex, which mediates protein translation into the ER, and the coat protein complexes (COPI and COPII), which mediate vesicular transport of proteins to and from the ER. Hepatocyte-specific mutation of STAT3 prevented the induction of these secretory pathways during pneumonia, with similar results observed following pharmacological activation of ER stress by using tunicamycin. These findings implicate STAT3 in the unfolded protein response and suggest that STAT3-dependent optimization of secretion may apply broadly. Pneumonia also stimulated the binding of phosphorylated STAT3 to promoter regions of secretion-related genes in the liver, supporting a direct role for STAT3 in their transcription. Altogether, these results identify a novel function of STAT3 during the acute-phase response, namely, the induction of secretory machinery in hepatocytes. This may facilitate the processing and delivery of newly synthesized loads of acute-phase proteins, enhancing innate immunity and preventing liver injury during infection.
AuthorsAyele-Nati N Ahyi, Lee J Quinton, Matthew R Jones, Joseph D Ferrari, Zachary A Pepper-Cunningham, Juan R Mella, Daniel G Remick, Joseph P Mizgerd
JournalInfection and immunity (Infect Immun) Vol. 81 Issue 5 Pg. 1644-53 (May 2013) ISSN: 1098-5522 [Electronic] United States
PMID23460517 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
Chemical References
  • Acute-Phase Proteins
  • STAT3 Transcription Factor
  • Stat3 protein, mouse
  • Aspartate Aminotransferases
  • Alanine Transaminase
Topics
  • Acute-Phase Proteins (metabolism)
  • Acute-Phase Reaction (metabolism)
  • Alanine Transaminase (blood)
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Animals
  • Aspartate Aminotransferases (blood)
  • Immunity, Innate (physiology)
  • Liver (metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Mutant Strains
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal (immunology, metabolism, physiopathology)
  • STAT3 Transcription Factor (deficiency, physiology)

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