Molecular Identification of Cytosolic Prostaglandin E2 Synthase That Is Functionally Coupled with Cyclooxygenase-1 in Immediate Prostaglandin E2Biosynthesis*

Here we report the molecular identification of cytosolic glutathione (GSH)-dependent prostaglandin (PG) E2 synthase (cPGES), a terminal enzyme of the cyclooxygenase (COX)-1-mediated PGE2 biosynthetic pathway. GSH-dependent PGES activity in the cytosol of rat brains, but not of other tissues, increased 3-fold after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. Peptide microsequencing of purified enzyme revealed that it was identical to p23, which is reportedly the weakly bound component of the steroid hormone receptor/hsp90 complex. Recombinant p23 expressed in Escherichia coli and 293 cells exhibited all the features of PGES activity detected in rat brain cytosol. A tyrosine residue near the N terminus (Tyr9), which is known to be critical for the activity of cytosolic GSHS-transferases, was essential for PGES activity. The expression of cPGES/p23 was constitutive and was unaltered by proinflammatory stimuli in various cells and tissues, except that it was increased significantly in rat brain after LPS treatment. cPGES/p23 was functionally linked with COX-1 in marked preference to COX-2 to produce PGE2 from exogenous and endogenous arachidonic acid, the latter being supplied by cytosolic phospholipase A2 in the immediate response. Thus, functional coupling between COX-1 and cPGES/p23 may contribute to production of the PGE2 that plays a role in maintenance of tissue homeostasis.

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