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Stress responses are critical for estrogen (E 2 )-induced apoptosis in E 2 -deprived breast cancer cells. Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) is an important therapeutic target to prevent stress responses in chronic inflammatory diseases including cancer. However, whether E 2  activates NF-κB to participate in stress-associated apoptosis in E 2 -deprived breast cancer cells is unknown. Here, we demonstrated that E 2  differentially modulates NF-κB activity according to treatment time. E 2  initially has significant potential to suppress NF-κB activation; it completely blocks tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα)-induced activation of NF-κB. We found that E 2  preferentially and constantly enhances the expression of the adipogenic transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein beta (C/EBPβ), which is responsible for the suppression of NF-κB activation by E 2  in MCF-7:5C cells. Interestingly, NF-κB p65 DNA-binding activity is increased when E 2  is administered for 48 h, leading to the induction of TNFα and associated apoptosis. Blocking the nuclear translocation of NF-κB can completely prevent the induction of TNFα and apoptosis induced by E 2 . Further examination revealed that protein kinase RNA-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), a stress sensor of unfolded protein response (UPR), plays an essential role in the late activation of NF-κB by E 2 . This modulation between PERK and NF-κB is mainly mediated by a stress responsive transcription factor, transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), independently of the classic canonical IκBα signaling pathway. Thus, inhibition of PERK kinase activity completely blocks the DNA binding of both STAT3 and NF-κB, thereby preventing induction of NF-κB-dependent genes and E 2 -induced apoptosis. All of these findings suggest that PERK is a key regulator to convey stress signals from the endoplasmic reticulum to the nucleus and illustrate a crucial role for the novel PERK/STAT3/NF-κB/TNFα axis in E 2 -induced apoptosis in E 2 -deprived breast cancer cells.

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Modulation of nuclear factor-kappa B activation by the endoplasmic reticulum stress sensor PERK to mediate estrogen-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells