PMID- 31535738 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20201027 LR - 20201027 IS - 1600-0625 (Electronic) IS - 0906-6705 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 11 DP - 2019 Nov TI - S-allyl cysteine inhibits TNF-alpha-induced inflammation in HaCaT keratinocytes by inhibition of NF- kappaB-dependent gene expression via sustained ERK activation. PG - 1328-1335 LID - 10.1111/exd.14041 [doi] AB - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced keratinocyte inflammation plays a key role in the pathogenesis of multiple inflammatory skin diseases. Here we investigated the anti-inflammatory effect of S-allyl cysteine (SAC) on TNF-alpha-induced HaCaT keratinocyte cells and the mechanism behind its anti-inflammatory potential. SAC was found to inhibit TNF-alpha-stimulated cytokine expression. Further, SAC was found to inhibit TNF-alpha-induced activation of p38, JNK and NF-kappaB pathways. Interestingly, SAC was found to differentially regulate ERK MAP kinase in cells. TNF-alpha-induced transient ERK activation and SAC treatment resulted in sustained ERK activation both in the presence and absence of TNF-alpha. Additionally, SAC failed to inhibit the TNF-alpha-induced expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and IL-1beta when cells were treated with the MEK inhibitor PD98059, suggesting that the anti-inflammatory effect of SAC is via sustained activation of the ERK pathway. Since ERK activation has been reported to negatively regulate NF-kappaB-driven gene expression and we find that SAC activates ERK and negatively regulates NF-kappaB, we investigated whether there existed any crosstalk between the ERK and the NF-kappaB pathways. NF-kappaB-dependent reporter assay, visualization of the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB-p65 subunit and determination of the cellular levels of I-kappaB, the inhibitor of NF-kappaB, revealed that SAC inhibited TNF-alpha-induced NF-kappaB activation, and PD98059 treatment reversed this effect. These results collectively suggest that SAC inhibits TNF-alpha-induced inflammation in HaCaT cells via a combined effect entailing the inhibition of the p38 and the JNK pathways and NF-kappaB pathway via the sustained activation of ERK. CI - (c) 2019 John Wiley & Sons A/S . Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Basu, Chitra AU - Basu C AD - Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. FAU - Chatterjee, Abhipriya AU - Chatterjee A AD - Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. FAU - Bhattacharya, Sampurna AU - Bhattacharya S AD - Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. FAU - Dutta, Naibedya AU - Dutta N AD - Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. FAU - Sur, Runa AU - Sur R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8399-2508 AD - Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. LA - eng GR - University of Calcutta/International GR - DST-FIST facility/International GR - University Grant Commission/International PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190929 PL - Denmark TA - Exp Dermatol JT - Experimental dermatology JID - 9301549 RN - 0 (Interleukin-1beta) RN - 0 (NF-kappa B) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 81R3X99M15 (S-allylcysteine) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - K848JZ4886 (Cysteine) SB - IM MH - Cell Line, Transformed MH - Cysteine/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Interleukin-1beta/metabolism MH - Keratinocytes/*metabolism MH - MAP Kinase Signaling System MH - Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/*metabolism MH - NF-kappa B/metabolism MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - ERK OT - NF-kappaB OT - TNF-alpha OT - inflammation OT - keratinocytes EDAT- 2019/09/20 06:00 MHDA- 2020/10/28 06:00 CRDT- 2019/09/20 06:00 PHST- 2019/03/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/09/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/09/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/10/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/09/20 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/exd.14041 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Exp Dermatol. 2019 Nov;28(11):1328-1335. doi: 10.1111/exd.14041. Epub 2019 Sep 29.