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Published online before print July 15, 2003
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Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Activation signals from bacterial stimuli set into motion a series of events that alter the abbreviated lifespan of neutrophils. These studies show that the bacterial chemoattractant, formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLP), promotes the phosphorylation/inactivation of the FOXO subfamily of forkhead transcription factors (FKHR, FKHR-L1, and AFX) through the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/Akt (protein kinase B) and the RAS mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. Furthermore, fMLP stimulation causes the inducible expression of the prosurvival Bcl-2 family member Mcl-1, which then binds to a complex containing FKHR. These studies show that fMLP-stimulated neutrophils coordinate the regulation of FOXO transcription factors and the survival factor Mcl-1, a mechanism that may allow neutrophils to alter their survival.
Key Words: phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI-3K) Akt mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling Rsk
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