Telomerase directly regulates NF-κB-dependent transcription - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2012 Dec;14(12):1270-81.

doi: 10.1038/ncb2621. Epub 2012 Nov 18.

Gaye Saginc, Shi Chi Leow, Ekta Khattar, Eun Myong Shin, Ting Dong Yan, Marc Wong, Zhizhuo Zhang, Guoliang Li, Wing-Kin Sung, Jianbiao Zhou, Wee Joo Chng, Shang Li, Edison Liu, Vinay Tergaonkar

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Telomerase directly regulates NF-κB-dependent transcription

Arkasubhra Ghosh et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

Although elongation of telomeres is thought to be the prime function of reactivated telomerase in cancers, this activity alone does not account for all of the properties that telomerase reactivation attributes to human cancer cells. Here, we uncover a link between telomerase and NF-κB, a master regulator of inflammation. We observe that while blocking NF-κB signalling can inhibit effects of telomerase overexpression on processes relevant to transformation, increasing NF-κB activity can functionally substitute for reduced telomerase activity. Telomerase directly regulates NF-κB-dependent gene expression by binding to the NF-κB p65 subunit and recruitment to a subset of NF-κB promoters such as those of IL-6 and TNF-α, cytokines that are critical for inflammation and cancer progression. As NF-κB can transcriptionally upregulate telomerase levels, our findings suggest that a feed-forward regulation between them could be the key mechanistic basis for the coexistence of chronic inflammation and sustained telomerase activity in human cancers.

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