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Deregulated Neddylation in Liver Fibrosis

Deregulated Neddylation in Liver Fibrosis

Imanol Zubiete-Franco, Pablo Fernández-Tussy, Lucía Barbier-Torres, Jorge Simon, David Fernández-Ramos, Fernando Lopitz-Otsoa, Virginia Gutiérrez-de Juan, Sergio López de Davalillo, Antonio Martín Duce, etc.

Hepatology. 2017 Feb;65(2):694-709.

PMID: 28035772

Abstract:

Hepatic fibrosis is a global health problem currently without effective therapeutic approaches. Even though the ubiquitin-like posttranslational modification of neddylation, that conjugates Nedd8 (neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated) to specific targets, is aberrant in many pathologies, its relevance in liver fibrosis (LF) remained unexplored. Our results show deregulated neddylation in clinical fibrosis and both in mouse bileductligation- and CCl4 -induced fibrosis. Importantly, neddylation inhibition, by using the pharmacological inhibitor, MLN4924, reduced liver injury, apoptosis, inflammation, and fibrosis by targeting different hepatic cell types. On one hand, increased neddylation was associated with augmented caspase 3 activity in bile-acid-induced apoptosis in mouse hepatocytes whereas neddylation inhibition ameliorated apoptosis through reduction of expression of the Cxcl1 and Ccl2 chemokines. On the other hand, chemokine receptors and cytokines, usually induced in activated macrophages, were reduced after neddylation inhibition in mouse Kupffer cells. Under these circumstances, decreased hepatocyte cell death and inflammation after neddylation inhibition could partly account for reduction of hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation. We provide evidence that augmented neddylation characterizes activated HSCs, suggesting that neddylation inhibition could be important for resolving LF by directly targeting these fibrogenic cells. Indeed, neddylation inhibition in activated HSCs induces apoptosis in a process partly mediated by accumulation of c-Jun, whose cullin-mediated degradation is impaired under these circumstances.
Conclusion:
Neddylation inhibition reduces fibrosis, suggesting neddylation as a potential and attractive therapeutic target in liver fibrosis. (Hepatology 2017;65:694-709).

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