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Respiratory syncytial virus influences NF-kappaB-dependent gene expression through a novel pathway involving MAP3K14/ NIK expression and nuclear complex formation with NF-kappaB2.

A member of the Paramyxoviridae family of RNA viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), is a leading cause of epidemic respiratory tract infection in children. In children, RSV primarily replicates in the airway mucosa, a process that alters epithelial cell chemokine expression, thereby inducing airway inflammation. We investigated the role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 14/NF-kappaB-inducing kinase ( NIK) in the activation of NF-kappaB-dependent genes in alveolus-like A549 cells. RSV infection induces a time dependent increase of NIK mRNA and protein expression that peaks 12 to 24 h after viral exposure. Immunoprecipitation kinase assays indicate that NIK kinase activity is activated even more rapidly (within 6 h of RSV adsorption) associated with an endogenous approximately 50-kDa NF-kappaB2 substrate. Because NIK associates with IKKalpha to mediate processing of the 100-kDa NF-kappaB2 precursor into its 52-kDa DNA binding isoform (" p52"), the effects of RSV on NIK complex formation with IKKalpha and NF-kappaB2 were determined by coimmunoprecipitation assay. We find that NIK, IKKalpha, and both 100 kDa- and 52-kDa NF-kappaB2 isoforms strongly complex 15 h after exposure to RSV at times subsequent to NIK kinase activation. Western immunoblot and microaffinity DNA pull-down assays showed a parallel increase in nuclear translocation and DNA binding of the NF-kappaB2-Rel B complex. Interestingly, we make the novel observations that NIK also transiently translocates into the nucleus complexed with 52-kDa NF-kappaB2. Small interfering RNA-mediated NIK "knock-down" blocked RSV-inducible 52-kDa NF-kappaB2 processing and interfered with the early activation of a subset of NF-kappaB-dependent genes, indicating the importance of this activation pathway in the genomic NF-kappaB response to RSV. Together, these data indicate that RSV infection rapidly activates the noncanonical NF-kappaB activation pathway prior to the more potent canonical pathway activation. This appears to be through a novel mechanism involving induction of NIK kinase activity, expression, and nuclear translocation of a ternary complex with IKKalpha and processed NF-kappaB2.[1]

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