Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
DOI
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Abstract
We investigated whether the activity of double-stranded RNA activated kinase (p68/PKR) is necessary for induction of IDO (indolamine 2,3 -dioxygenase) gene by IFN-\gamma. For this purpose, we planned to abrogate the function of cellular wt-PKR gene. Clones of ME180 cells expressing the dominant negative form of PKR were selected in the presence of neomycin. Then these cells were treated with IFN-\gamma and accumulation of IDO protein was determined by Western blot analysis. We found that clones expressing the dominant negative form of the PKR gene were not only resistant to IFN-\gamma-mediated killing, but were also incapable of inducing accumulation of IDO protein after IFN-\gamma treatment.
Keywords
IFN, p68/PKR, IDO, transcription
First Page
195
Last Page
199
Recommended Citation
İMİR, NİLÜFER GÜLMEN; NASIRCILAR, AYŞEGÜL; AKÇA, HAKAN; GELEN, TEKİNALP; ÖĞÜŞ, MEHMET; KARAVELİ, ŞEYDA; and ÖZEŞ, OSMAN NİDAİ (2002) "IFN-g-Mediated Transcriptional Induction of the IDO (Indolamine 2,3-Dioxygenase) Gene Requires Activity of p68/PKR Protein Kinase," Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences: Vol. 32: No. 3, Article 1. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/medical/vol32/iss3/1
