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Placenta ; 36(5): 581-6, 2015 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25771405

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INTRODUCTION: Our recent studies have shown that constitutively activated non-canonical RelB/NF-κB2 (p52) in the human placenta positively regulates the pro-labor genes CRH and COX-2. STAT3 regulates NF-κB2 (p100) processing to active p52, and in turn, nuclear activation of RelB/p52, by directly binding to p100/p52 in a variety of cancer cells. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that STAT3 is involved in regulation of pro-labor genes by associating with RelB/p52 heterodimers in the human placenta. METHODS: We used a variety of techniques including immunohistochemical staining, gene silencing, ectopic expression, chromatin immunoprecipitation, Western blot, RT-qPCR, and immunofluorescence assays in primary culture of cytotrophoblast and placental tissues. RESULTS: We found that knockdown of STAT3 led to down-regulation of both CRH and COX-2 in a dose-dependent manner. By using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we further showed that interaction of RelB with the CRH or COX-2 gene promoters decreased when STAT3 was depleted. Immunofluorescence demonstrated co-localization of STAT3 with RelB or p100/p52 in both the cytoplasm and nucleus of term cytotrophoblasts. DISCUSSION: Collectively, these results suggest that STAT3 constitutes part of the RelB/p52-containing activator complex that positively regulates pro-labor genes in the human placenta.


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Hormona Liberadora de Corticotropina/metabolismo , Ciclooxigenasa 2/metabolismo , Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica , Placenta/metabolismo , Factor de Transcripción STAT3/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Femenino , Humanos , Subunidad p52 de NF-kappa B/metabolismo , Embarazo , Interferencia de ARN , Factor de Transcripción ReIB/metabolismo , Contracción Uterina
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