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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 6, 3702-3712, February 9, 2007

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Alcohol Regulates Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Phosphorylation via an AMP-activated Protein Kinase-dependent Mechanism in C2C12 Skeletal Myocytes^*

From the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033

Ethanol decreases protein synthesis in cells, although the underlying regulatory mechanisms of this process are not fully established. In the present study incubation of C2C12 myocytes with 100 mM EtOH decreased protein synthesis while markedly increasing the phosphorylation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2), a key component of the translation machinery. Both mTOR and MEK pathways were found to play a role in regulating the effect of EtOH on eEF2 phosphorylation. Rapamycin, an inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin, and the MEK inhibitor PD98059 blocked the EtOH-induced phosphorylation of eEF2, whereas the p38 MAPK inhibitor SB202190 had no effect. Unexpectedly, EtOH decreased the phosphorylation and activity of the eEF2 upstream regulator eEF2 kinase. Likewise, treatment of cells with the inhibitor rottlerin did not block the stimulatory effect of EtOH on eEF2, suggesting that eEF2 kinase (eEF2K) does not play a role in regulating eEF2. In contrast, increased eEF2 phosphorylation was correlated with an increase in AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) phosphorylation and activity. Compound C, an inhibitor of AMPK, suppressed the effects of EtOH on eEF2 phosphorylation but had no effect on eEF2K, indicating that AMPK regulates eEF2 independent of eEF2K. Finally, EtOH decreased protein phosphatase 2A activity when either eEF2 or AMPK was used as the substrate. Thus, this later action may partially account for the increased phosphorylation of eEF2 in response to EtOH and the observed sensitivity of AMPK to rapamycin and PD98059 treatments. Collectively, the induction of eEF2 phosphorylation by EtOH is controlled by an increase in AMPK and a decrease in protein phosphatase 2A activity.

Received for publication, July 11, 2006 , and in revised form, December 12, 2006.

^* This study was supported by National Institute of Health Grants DK072909-01 and AA11209. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State University College of Medicine, 500 University Dr., Hershey, PA 17033. Tel.: 717-531-5346; Fax: 717-531-7667; E-mail: lqh10{at}psu.edu.

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