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Recent work has implicated the activated ras oncogene, whose gene product is a G-protein located in the plasma membrane, as well as the activated raf oncogene, whose gene product is a membrane-associated protein kinase, in contributing to radioresistance. Another transforming oncogene whose gene product is localized to the plasma membrane is v-src. We have examined a rat fibroblast line (RAT-1) infected with an avian sarcoma virus carrying a temperature-sensitive mutation in the v-src tyrosine kinase domain (LA-24). At 40 degrees C, LA-24 cells have a flat morphology and grow as a contact-inhibited monolayer, while at 35 degrees C, LA-24 cells have a transformed morphology, lose contact inhibition, grow in soft agar, and exhibit 3.5-fold higher tyrosine kinase activity. The parental RAT-1 line, not infected by the virus, grows at both temperatures as a contact-inhibited monolayer. This well-characterized system represents a good model for examining the effect of v-src transformation on radiosensitivity. RAT-1 and LA-24 cells grown at 35 and 40 degrees C were irradiated with graded doses of radiation, and clonogenic survival was assayed. For LA-24 cells grown at 35 and 40 degrees C, and for RAT-1 cells grown at 35 and 40 degrees C, calculated D0, n, alpha, and beta values did not differ significantly. To determine whether there might be differences in radiation damage repair capacity too subtle to detect by comparing radiation survival curves, sublethal damage repair capacity was assessed. There was no difference in sublethal damage repair capacity for LA-24 cells grown at 35 or 40 degrees C. Other studies have associated multidrug resistance with radioresistance. We have examined the radiation sensitivity of two colchicine-resistant LA-24 clones with four- to fivefold amplification of the P-glycoprotein gene, which are four-to fivefold more resistant to colchicine than the parental LA-24 line. In these multidrug-resistant clones, v-src activation does appear to increase radiation resistance. This did not appear to be due to alteration in cell cycle kinetics. We conclude that oncogene activation, or even protein kinase activity per se, does not necessarily lead to radiation resistance. Rather, radiation resistance following oncogene activation depends upon the oncogene and cell line studied, and perhaps upon specific protein phosphorylation.
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PMID:Effects of v-src oncogene activation on radiation sensitivity in drug-sensitive and in multidrug-resistant rat fibroblasts. 173 44

ras-Transformed NIH3T3 (R3T3) cells were transfected with expression vectors for the RII alpha and RII beta regulatory subunits of the type II isozyme of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, and the effects on gene activation by corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) were analyzed. In RII alpha and RII beta-overexpressing cells, type II isozyme levels were increased, and type I isozyme levels were eliminated, demonstrating that both RII regulatory subunits compete efficiently with RI for catalytic subunit. The type II isozyme separated into three peaks on high performance liquid chromatography, referred to as A, B, and C. Western blot analysis strongly suggests that peak A and peak C correspond to holoenzymes containing RII beta and RII alpha, respectively. Overexpression of RII alpha resulted in the loss of peak A and a dramatic reduction in RII beta protein with no change in RII beta mRNA, indicating that the level of RII beta protein is controlled posttranscriptionally and that RII beta protein may become unstable when displaced from C. The role of type I and II kinases in transcriptional activation was investigated by comparing the response of control and RII expressing clones to site-selective cAMP analogs and the hormones, CRF and PGE1. The site-selective analogs demonstrated that either type I or type II kinase could activate the cAMP-responsive alpha-subunit promoter. The response to various concentrations of CRF or PGE1 was identical in control cells and transfected clones containing very little type I kinase. These experiments suggest that in the CRF and PGE1 response pathways leading to gene induction, the magnitude and sensitivity of the response are not influenced by the presence or absence of type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
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PMID:Hormonal activation of gene transcription in ras-transformed NIH3T3 cells overexpressing RII alpha and RII beta subunits of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase. 174 4

In bovine aortic smooth muscle, GTP-binding activity was equally distributed in the membrane and cytosol fractions. The most abundant GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) in each fraction were purified to near homogeneity and characterized. The most abundant G protein in the membrane fraction had a Mr value of about 22,000 (m22K G) as estimated on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacryl-amide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). m22K G and the human platelet smg p21, a ras p21 like G protein having the same effector domain as ras p21s, were eluted at the same retention time on C4 reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Moreover, m22K G was specifically recognized by an anti-smg p21 polyclonal antibody. m22K G was phosphorylated by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase with a stoichiometry of one phosphate/molecule of protein. The most abundant G protein in the cytosol fraction had a Mr value of about 21,000 (c21K G) as estimated on SDS-PAGE. c21K G was ADP-ribosylated by botulinum ADP-ribosyltransferase and about 0.4 mol of ADP-ribose was maximally incorporated into 1 mol of c21K G. c21K G and the bovine brain rhoA p21, another ras p21 like G protein, were eluted at the same retention time on C4 reversed-phase HPLC and migrated at the same position on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. These results indicate that the major G proteins in the membrane and cytosol fractions of bovine aortic smooth muscle are smg p21 and rhoA p21, respectively. Possible roles of these G proteins in vascular smooth muscle are discussed.
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PMID:Small GTP-binding proteins in bovine aortic smooth muscle. 174 79

Two inhibitory Ras mutant proteins [(Asn 17) Ras and RAST] were microinjected into NIH3T3 cells in order to compare their inhibitory activity with that of a neutralizing anti-ras antibody. Both mutants were able to block efficiently the mitogenic effects of serum added to quiescent NIH3T3 cells. Furthermore, each of the inhibitors blocked cell cycle progression at the same point as the injected anti-ras antibody, just prior to the initiation of a new round of DNA synthesis. Finally, as with the injected anti-ras antibody, each of the inhibitors was efficiently able to block proliferation and reverse the transformed morphology of cells transformed by tyrosine kinase oncogenes, while cells transformed by serine kinase oncogenes were unaffected. Therefore, results with all three reagents clearly indicate that cellular Ras activity is required in the late G1 phase of the cell cycle and is essential for the maintenance of the transformed phenotype induced by tyrosine but not serine kinase oncogenes. These studies demonstrate the utility of dominant inhibitory mutants as a means of interfering with the activity of cellular oncogenes.
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PMID:Dominant inhibitory Ras mutants demonstrate the requirement for Ras activity in the action of tyrosine kinase oncogenes. 176 76

Three G proteins from human brain membranes were purified to near homogeneity by conventional techniques including preparative electrophoresis. These G proteins were characterized by their ability to bind GTP, GDP and GTP analogs. Two of these proteins have molecular weights of 50,000 (G50) and 36,000 (G36), as determined on SDS-gels. G36 was ADP-ribosylated by pertussis toxin. Thus, G50 could represent a Gs alpha subunit, whereas G36 could be Gi alpha or Go alpha. G50 was phosphorylated by cAMP dependent protein kinase and protein kinase C. G36 was phosphorylated by a protein kinase independent of calcium and phospholipid, a proteolytic product of protein kinase C, analogous to protein kinase M. Phosphorylation of G36 by this protein kinase induced a dramatic decrease in its GTPase activity. The third G protein, of molecular weight 22,000 probably belongs to the group of monomeric G proteins possessing functional similarities with ras gene products. The regulation of G proteins involving calcium-dependent and independent pathways is delineated.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of G proteins from human brain: modification of GTPase activity upon phosphorylation. 178 75

A major collagen-binding glycoprotein from rat L6 skeletal myoblasts, designated gp46, is phosphorylated in vivo. In this report the relative phosphorylation state of gp46 was examined using isoelectric focusing to identify the phosphorylated and unphosphorylated forms of gp46. Two major and one minor isoform of gp46 were identified that could be related to the phosphorylation state of gp46. The relative percentage of unphosphorylated to phosphorylated gp46 increased 10% in myoblasts heat-shocked at 42 degrees C for 24 h. Treatment of myoblasts with phorbol ester or dibutyryl-cAMP had no effect on the phosphorylation ratio of gp46. Transformation of L6 myoblasts with Rous sarcoma virus, likewise, had no effect on the phosphorylation ratio. However, ras-transformed L6 myoblasts showed a 12% increase in phosphorylation of gp46. These results indicate that gp46 does not undergo large changes in phosphorylation status. Pulse-chase labelling showed that the phosphorylation of gp46 occurred either co-translationally or soon after translation, suggesting that gp46 was phosphorylated by a constitutively active protein kinase.
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PMID:Analysis of the phosphorylation state of a collagen-binding heat-shock glycoprotein from L6 myoblasts by isoelectric focusing. 184 45

Transformation by activated pp60c-src has been correlated by genetic analysis with the tyrosine phosphorylation of a 120 kilodalton (kDa) protein, p120. We now demonstrate tyrosine phosphorylation of p120 following stimulation of cells by growth factors whose receptors have intrinsic tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity. Stimulation of quiescent NIH3T3 cells with platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) resulted in the tyrosine phosphorylation of p120 that was maximal by 5 min and returned to background levels by 30 min. p120 was also phosphorylated on tyrosine after addition of colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) or epidermal growth factor (EGF) to NIH3T3 cells engineered to express high levels of their respective receptors. Two additional src substrates, p110 and p85, were analysed under identical assay conditions. PDGF, CSF-1, and EGF induced only a minimal increase in the tyrosine phosphorylation of p85 and no change in the phosphorylation of p110. Thus, the marked ligand-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of p120 was a property not shared by the other src substrates examined. Immunoblotting with antibodies to p120 and the ras GTPase activating protein, GAP, suggests that p120 and GAP are unrelated. In addition, the amino acid sequences of four cyanogen bromide peptides derived from p120 showed no homology to GAP or to sequences in either the PIR or Swiss-Prot databases. These data suggest that tyrosine phosphorylation of p120 may contribute to both signal transduction through growth factor receptors and pp60src induced transformation.
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PMID:PDGF, CSF-1, and EGF induce tyrosine phosphorylation of p120, a pp60src transformation-associated substrate. 185 49

We have previously shown that cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A) phosphorylates smg p21A and -B, ras p21-like small GTP-binding proteins. In the present study, we investigated the function(s) of this phosphorylation by use of the smg p21B purified from human platelets. smg p21B bound to plasma membranes and the protein kinase A-catalyzed phosphorylation of smg p21B reduced this binding. Moreover, the phosphorylation of smg p21B enhanced the two actions of its specific GDP/GTP exchange protein, named GDP dissociation stimulator, when tested in a cell-free system: one is the action to stimulate the GDP/GTP exchange reaction of smg p21B, and the other is the action to inhibit the binding of smg p21B to membranes. Consistently, smg p21B was translocated from the membranes to the cytoplasm when it was phosphorylated by protein kinase A in intact platelets in response to prostaglandin E1 or dibutyryl cyclic AMP. The protein kinase A-catalyzed phosphorylation of smg p21B affected neither its basal GDP/GTP exchange reaction, basal GTPase activity, nor the GTPase activity stimulated by its specific GTPase activating protein. On the other hand, we have recently clarified that the structure of the C-terminal region of the post-translationally processed human platelet smg p21B is Lys-Lys-Ser-Ser-all-trans-geranylgeranyl Cys181 methyl ester, and that this modification of the C-terminal region is essential for smg p21B to bind to membranes. We furthermore determined here that protein kinase A phosphorylated Ser179 in this C-terminal region of smg p21B. These results indicate that protein kinase A-catalyzed phosphorylation of smg p21B makes smg p21B sensitive to the actions of smg p21 GDP dissociation stimulator.
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PMID:Enhancement of the actions of smg p21 GDP/GTP exchange protein by the protein kinase A-catalyzed phosphorylation of smg p21. 190 Oct 63

The products of rap genes (rap1A, rap1B and rap2) are small molecular weight GTP-binding proteins that share approximately 50% homology with ras-p21s. It had previously been shown that a rap1 protein (also named Krev-1 or smg p21) could be phosphorylated on serine residues by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in vitro as well as in intact platelets stimulated by prostaglandin E1. We show here that the rap1A protein purified from recombinant bacteria is phosphorylated in vitro by the catalytic subunit of PKA and that the deletion of the 17 C-terminal amino acids leads to the loss of this phosphorylation. This suggests that the serine residue at position 180 constitutes the site of phosphorylation of the rap1A protein by PKA. The rap1 protein can also be phosphorylated by PKA in intact fibroblasts; this phenomenon is independent of their proliferative state. In contrast, protein kinase C (PKC) does not phosphorylate the rap1 proteins, neither in vitro nor in vivo. Finally, the 60% homologous rap2 protein is neither phosphorylated in vitro nor in vivo by PKA or PKC.
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PMID:The cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylates the rap1 protein in vitro as well as in intact fibroblasts, but not the closely related rap2 protein. 190 91

Many growth factors regulate the cytoplasmic Raf-1 protein kinase, consistent with its having a central role in transduction of growth signals. The kinase is ubiquitously expressed and can promote proliferation, presumably in a manner dependent on growth-factor receptors and membrane-associated oncogenes. We have now examined the dependence of serum- and TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate)-regulated NIH/3T3 cell growth on RAF-1 kinase to determine whether Raf-1 is essential for receptor signalling. We inhibited Raf-1 function by expressing c-raf-1 antisense RNA or kinase-defective c-raf-1 mutants. Antisense RNA for c-raf-1 interferes with proliferation of normal NIH/3T3 cells and reverts raf-transformed cells. In revertant cells, DNA replication induced by serum or TPA was eliminated or reduced proportionately to the reduction in Raf protein levels. Expression of a kinase-defective Raf-1 mutant (craf301) or a regulatory domain fragment (HCR) inhibited serum-induced NIH/3T3-cell proliferation and raf transformation even more efficiently. Inhibition by antisense RNA or craf301 blocked proliferation and transformation by Ki- and Ha-ras oncogenes. We conclude that raf functions as an essential signal transducer downstream of serum growth factor receptors, protein kinase C and ras.
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PMID:Raf-1 protein kinase is required for growth of induced NIH/3T3 cells. 199 43


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