PMID- 25088600 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150211 LR - 20231213 IS - 1527-3350 (Electronic) IS - 0270-9139 (Print) IS - 0270-9139 (Linking) VI - 60 IP - 6 DP - 2014 Dec TI - Mouse hepatocyte overexpression of NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK) triggers fatal macrophage-dependent liver injury and fibrosis. PG - 2065-76 LID - 10.1002/hep.27348 [doi] AB - Damaged, necrotic, or apoptotic hepatocytes release damage-associated molecular patterns that initiate sterile inflammation, and liver inflammation drives liver injury and fibrosis. Here we identified hepatic nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB)-inducing kinase (NIK), a Ser/Thr kinase, as a novel trigger of fatal liver inflammation. NIK is activated by a broad spectrum of stimuli. It was up-regulated in injured livers in both mice and humans. In primary mouse hepatocytes, NIK overexpression stimulated, independently of cell injury and death, release of numerous chemokines and cytokines that activated bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs). BMDMs in turn secreted proapoptotic molecules that stimulated hepatocyte apoptosis. Hepatocyte-specific expression of the NIK transgene triggered massive liver inflammation, oxidative stress, hepatocyte apoptosis, and liver fibrosis, leading to weight loss, hypoglycemia, and death. Depletion of Kupffer cells/macrophages reversed NIK-induced liver destruction and death. CONCLUSION: the hepatocyte NIK-liver immune cell axis promotes liver inflammation, injury, and fibrosis, thus driving liver disease progression. CI - (c) 2014 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. FAU - Shen, Hong AU - Shen H AD - Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI. FAU - Sheng, Liang AU - Sheng L FAU - Chen, Zheng AU - Chen Z FAU - Jiang, Lin AU - Jiang L FAU - Su, Haoran AU - Su H FAU - Yin, Lei AU - Yin L FAU - Omary, M Bishr AU - Omary MB FAU - Rui, Liangyou AU - Rui L LA - eng GR - R01 DK091591/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - NIH DK34933/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 CA046592/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - DK094014/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - NIH DK20572/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK091591/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - NIH CA46592/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - NIH P30AG013283/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - DK52951/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DK094014/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DK020572/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 AG013283/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States GR - P60 DK020572/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DK034933/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20141029 PL - United States TA - Hepatology JT - Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) JID - 8302946 RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis MH - Female MH - Fibrosis MH - Hepatocytes/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Immunity, Innate MH - Liver/pathology MH - Liver Diseases/immunology/*metabolism/pathology MH - Macrophages/physiology MH - Male MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Middle Aged MH - Oxidative Stress MH - Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism MH - Young Adult MH - NF-kappaB-Inducing Kinase PMC - PMC4245385 MID - NIHMS620333 EDAT- 2014/08/05 06:00 MHDA- 2015/02/12 06:00 PMCR- 2015/12/01 CRDT- 2014/08/05 06:00 PHST- 2014/03/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/07/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/08/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/02/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1002/hep.27348 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hepatology. 2014 Dec;60(6):2065-76. doi: 10.1002/hep.27348. Epub 2014 Oct 29.