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The finding that IL-1β expression and MAPK activation are concomitantly increased by CSC exposure and inhibited by PD98059 is consistent with the report that MAPKs activate expression of IL-1β genes [ 10 ] . Although the control of cytok-80% confluence on 12-well plates and transfected with the Mercury pathway profiling system vector, pNFκB-TA-Luc (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA, USA), using lipofectamine (Gibco/BRL, Rockville, MD, USA) and used according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
Cigarette smoke has been shown by others to induce a synthesis of glutathione and gamma-glutamylcysteine that was associated with transcription factor AP-1 or an AP-1-like response element [ 9 ] . Although MAPKs and NFκB have been implicated in the upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines, the role of these pathways in normal human pulmonary epithelial cells in response to CSC has not been investigated.
Finally, activation of MAPKs has been shown to activate the singly spliced and unspliced (genomic) latent HIV-1 virus.
To examine if CSC-upregulation of cytokine production involves activation of MAPKs we examined CSC-treated NHBEs for specific phosphorylated species.
Previous studies have shown that the amino terminus of the estrogen receptor is phosphorylated by MAPK proteins [ 12 ] . To determine the participation of MAPKs in RARα phosphorylation, we performed RARα immunoprecipitation on SCC25 cells treated with the MEK/ERK inhibitor PD98059 or p38 inhibitory drug SB203580.