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The ros1 gene was detected originally by virtue of its transforming potential; the cDNA of the human protooncogene was isolated from a tumor cell line expressing the gene ectopically. It encodes a receptor-type tyrosine specific protein kinase which is closely related to sevenless in Drosophila. Here we report the novel and remarkable in vivo expression pattern of c-ros1, which was determined in the mouse. By a combination of RNase protection and in situ hybridization, we find transient c-ros1 expression during development in the kidney, intestine and lung, coinciding with major morphogenetic and differentiation events in these organs. This temporally restricted nature of expression is unusual for tyrosine kinase receptors and suggests a role for ros1 during development. Furthermore, in kidney development c-ros1 transcripts are confined to subgroups of ureter cells known to be involved directly in inductive interactions between ureter epithelium and metanephric mesenchyme. Thus, this study implicates for the first time a tyrosine kinase receptor in mesenchymal epithelial interactions and suggests a molecular basis for these important inductive events in development.
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PMID:Transient and locally restricted expression of the ros1 protooncogene during mouse development. 171 42

The mature product of the c-met proto-oncogene is a putative tyrosine kinase receptor of 190 kd with an alpha beta heterodimeric structure. The c-met protein is phosphorylated in vivo on the beta subunit in the gastric carcinoma cell line GTL-16 (Giordano et al., 1988). Western blots with phosphotyrosine antibodies show that tyrosine phosphorylation of the beta subunit is reduced by treatment of GTL-16 cells with protein kinase C activators (tumor promoting phorbol esters such as phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, TPA, and beta-phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate, PdBu, or membrane permeable synthetic diacylglycerol 1-oleyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol, OAG). The inactive analog alpha-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate has no effect. The inhibition induced by TPA is dose dependent and maximal after 1 h. Depletion of protein kinase-C by prolonged treatment with TPA (18-48 h) increases the phosphorylation on tyrosine of the beta subunit. Phospho-amino acid analysis of the c-met protein immunoprecipitated from [32P]orthophosphate-labelled GTL-16 cells shows that protein kinase-C activation leads to an increase in serine phosphorylation and to concomitant decrease in tyrosine phosphorylation. These results suggest that, similar to the EGF and insulin receptor, the putative receptor encoded by the c-met proto-oncogene may be negatively modulated by protein kinase-C phosphorylation.
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PMID:Protein kinase-c activation inhibits tyrosine phosphorylation of the c-met protein. 211 5

The Kit/stem cell factor receptor (Kit/SCF-R) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor of importance for the normal development of hemopoietic cells, melanoblasts, and germ cells. We recently reported that protein kinase C (PKC) is involved in a negative feedback loop regulating the Kit/SCF-R by direct phosphorylation on serine residues in the receptor. Inhibition of PKC led to increased SCF-induced tyrosine kinase activity and mitogenicity, but PKC was necessary for SCF-induced motility. In this report we have further examined the modulatory role of PKC on SCF-induced signaling. The ligand-activated Kit/SCF-R associated weakly with GRB2 and induced only little tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C-gamma in porcine aortic endothelial cells transfected with Kit/SCF-R. In contrast, the SCF-stimulated Kit/SCF-R associated efficiently with, and induced tyrosine phosphorylation of, the p85 alpha regulatory subunit of phosphatidyl inositide-3'-kinase (PI-3'-kinase). Both receptor association and tyrosine phosphorylation of p85 alpha were increased after inhibition of PKC, while its serine phosphorylation was decreased. Concomitantly, the specific activity of receptor-associated PI-3'-kinase activity was increased. Inhibition of PI-3'-kinase with wortmannin inhibited SCF-induced mitogenicity. SCF-induced phosphorylation of Raf-1 and activation of ERK2 still occurred after PKC inhibition but was not increased. In conclusion, SCF-induced PI-3'-kinase activation paralleled the increased SCF-induced mitogenicity after inhibition of PKC.
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PMID:Modulation of Kit/stem cell factor receptor-induced signaling by protein kinase C. 752 Apr 44

Raf-1 is a 74-kD serine/threonine kinase located in the cell cytoplasm that is activated by phosphorylation in cells stimulated with a variety of mitogens and growth factors, including hematopoietic growth factors. Using c-raf antisense oligonucleotides to block Raf-1 expression, we have established that Raf-1 is required for hematopoietic growth factor-induced proliferation of murine cell lines stimulated by growth factors whose receptors are members of several different structural classes: (a) the hematopoietin receptor family, including interleukin (IL)-2, IL-3, IL-4, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and erythropoietin; (b) the tyrosine kinase receptor class, including Steel factor and CSF-1; and (c) IL-6, leukemia inhibitory factor, and oncostatin M, whose receptors include the gp130 receptor subunit. Although results of previous experiments had suggested that IL-4 does not phosphorylate or activate the Raf-1 kinase, c-raf antisense oligonucleotides inhibited IL-4-induced proliferation of both myeloid and T cell lines, and IL-4 activated Raf-1 kinase activity in an IL-4-dependent myeloid cell line. In colony assays, c-raf antisense oligonucleotides completely inhibited colony formation of unseparated normal murine bone marrow cells stimulated with either IL-3 or CSF-1 and partially inhibited cells stimulated with GM-CSF. In addition, c-raf antisense oligonucleotides completely inhibited both IL-3- and GM-CSF-induced colony formation of CD34+ purified human progenitors stimulated with these same growth factors. Thus, Raf-1 is required for growth factor-induced proliferation of leukemic murine progenitor cell lines and normal murine and human bone marrow-derived progenitor cells regardless of the growth factor used to stimulate cell growth.
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PMID:Raf-1 protein is required for growth factor-induced proliferation of hematopoietic cells. 753 43

Mesoderm induction is a critical early step in vertebrate development, involving changes in gene expression and morphogenesis. In Xenopus, normal mesoderm formation depends on signalling through the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) tyrosine kinase receptor. One important signalling pathway from receptor tyrosine kinases involves p21ras (ref. 5). Ras associates with the serine kinase c-Raf-1 in a GTP-dependent manner, and this complex phosphorylates and activates MAPK/ERK kinase (MEK), a protein kinase with dual specificity. MEK then activates p42mapk and (at least in mammals) p44mapk, members of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase family. FGF activates MAP kinase during mesoderm induction, and the use of dominant-negative constructs suggests that mesoderm induction by FGF requires both Ras and Raf. However, these experiments do not reveal whether Ras and Raf do act through MAP kinase to induce mesoderm or whether another pathway, such as the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase cascade, is involved. Here we show that expression of active forms of MEK or of MAP kinase induces ventral mesoderm of the kind elicited by FGF. Overexpression of a Xenopus MAP kinase phosphatase blocks mesoderm induction by FGF, and causes characteristic defects in mesoderm formation in intact embryos, whereas inhibition of the P13 kinase and p70 S6 kinase pathways has no effect on mesoderm induction by FGF. FGF induces different types of mesoderm in a dose-dependent manner; strikingly, this is mimicked by expressing different levels of activated MEK. Together, these experiments demonstrate that activation of MAP kinases is necessary and sufficient for mesoderm formation.
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PMID:Mesoderm induction in Xenopus caused by activation of MAP kinase. 754 Nov 16

Because cAMP exerts opposite effects on cell proliferation in different cell types, we undertook to study its effect on the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in three cell lines (Rat-1, Swiss-3T3, and COS-7) chosen for their different mitogenic responses to cAMP. We measured the effect of cAMP on MAPK, MEK, and Raf-1 activities after stimulation by agonists acting through a tyrosine kinase receptor (epidermal growth factor) or a G protein-coupled receptor (lysophosphatidic acid). In Rat-1 cells we found that cAMP strongly inhibited all three activities (MAPK, MEK, and Raf-1), in good agreement with its effect on cell proliferation in these cells. In Swiss-3T3 and COS-7 cells, on the contrary, cAMP did not inhibit epidermal growth factor- and lysophosphatidic acid-induced stimulation of MAPK and MEK activities, and even stimulated MAPK activity slightly on its own. Again these results are in good agreement with the proliferative effect of cAMP in Swiss-3T3 cells. Raf-1 activity on the hand, was inhibited by cAMP in Swiss-3T3 and COS-7 as it was in Rat-1 cells. This result indicates that signaling pathways in Swiss-3T3 and COS-7 cells can activate MEK and MAPK in a Raf-1-independent and cAMP-insensitive manner. Our results add to growing evidence for the existence of Ras- and/or Raf-1-independent pathways leading to MEK and MAPK activation.
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PMID:Differential effects on cAMP on the MAP kinase cascade: evidence for a cAMP-insensitive step that can bypass Raf-1. 757 5

Angiotensin-II (AII), which stimulates steroidogenesis in bovine adrenocortical (BAC) cells through the phosphoinositides pathway, activates p42-p44 mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) after 5 min of treatment (EC50 = 0.1 nM). This activation is 1) completely inhibited by the AII receptor AT1 subtype antagonist Dup 753 (10 microM), but unaffected by the AT2 antagonist PD 123177; 2) not reproduced by the AT2 agonist CGP 42112A; 3) insensitive to pretreatment with pertussis toxin; and 4) abolished by a 48-h preexposure of the cells to the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA; 1 microM), which down-regulates protein kinase-C activity. Fibroblast growth factor-2, a potent mitogen for BAC cells, which acts through its tyrosine kinase receptor, also activates MAPK (EC50 = 0.3 in a TPA-insensitive manner, while exhibiting no detectable effect on BAC cell steroidogenesis. In contrast, ACTH, which stimulates steroidogenesis via cAMP and inhibits BAC cell proliferation, does not stimulate MAPK. Indeed, ACTH completely blocks (IC50 = 0.01 nM) the stimulation of MAPK by AII, fibroblast growth factor-2, or TPA. Therefore, bovine adrenocortical cells provide an example of positive and negative hormonal regulation of MAPK activity through a cross-talk between the inositide-, cAMP-, and growth factor-activated tyrosine kinase pathways.
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PMID:Hormonal regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase activity in bovine adrenocortical cells: cross-talk between phosphoinositides, adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, and tyrosine kinase receptor pathways. 786 5

Growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase regulation of the sequential phosphorylation reactions leading to mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activation in PC12 cells has been investigated. In response to epidermal growth factor, nerve growth factor, and platelet-derived growth factor, B-Raf and Raf-1 are activated, phosphorylate recombinant kinase-inactive MEK-1, and activate wild-type MEK-1. MEK-1 is the dual-specificity protein kinase that selectively phosphorylates MAP kinase on tyrosine and threonine, resulting in MAP kinase activation. B-Raf and Raf-1 are growth factor-regulated Raf family members which regulate MEK-1 and MAP kinase activity in PC12 cells. Protein kinase A activation in response to elevated cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels inhibited B-Raf and Raf-1 stimulation in response to growth factors. Ras.GTP loading in response to epidermal growth factor, nerve growth factor, or platelet-derived growth factor was unaffected by protein kinase A activation. Even though elevated cAMP levels inhibited Raf activation, the growth factor activation of MEK-1 and MAP kinase was unaffected in PC12 cells. The results demonstrate that tyrosine kinase receptor activation of MEK-1 and MAP kinase in PC12 cells is regulated by B-Raf and Raf-1, whose activation is inhibited by protein kinase A, and MEK activators, whose activation is independent of cAMP regulation.
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PMID:B-Raf-dependent regulation of the MEK-1/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in PC12 cells and regulation by cyclic AMP. 793 74

We examined the effects of insulin on the phosphorylation state of cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) in normal rat adipocytes. Insulin increased in vivo phosphorylation of CREB by 40%. Although both phosphoprotein phosphatase-1 and -2A dephosphorylate CREB and activating transcription factor-1, insulin action appears to be mediated via its strong inhibitory effect on nuclear phosphatase-2A (PP-2A) activity. Using in vitro protein kinase-A-phosphorylated activating transcription factor-1 as a substrate, we found that insulin inhibited nuclear PP-2A activity by 80% (P < 0.001), which represents approximately 50% of the total nuclear phosphatase activity. Greater than 50% of the effect of insulin was observed at 0.3 nM and 2 min of exposure. These findings are the first indicator that a signal initiated by a cell surface tyrosine kinase receptor may regulate nuclear PP-2A activity and thereby affect the phosphorylation state of transcription factors.
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PMID:Insulin inhibits dephosphorylation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate response element-binding protein/activating transcription factor-1: effect on nuclear phosphoserine phosphatase-2a. 798 26

Expression of the GTPase-deficient G alpha 16 polypeptide G alpha 16Q212L, a member of the Gq family of heterotrimeric G proteins, constitutively activated phospholipase C beta activity in Swiss 3T3 cells. Expression of G alpha 16Q212L appears to persistently stimulte a low level of protein kinase C activity which also increases protein kinase A activity in Swiss 3T3 cells. Growth of G alpha 16Q212L expressing cells was significantly inhibited relative to wild-type Swiss 3T3 cells. Bombesin-stimulated DNA synthesis was completely inhibited in G alpha 16Q212L expressing clones, whereas the growth responses to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and serum were inhibited 50-80% relative to wild-type cells. In addition to the inhibition of cell growth, G alpha 16Q212L expression significantly inhibited the stimulation of protein kinase C, Raf-1, MEK, mitogen-activated protein kinase, phospholipase A2 activity, and Ca2+ mobilization in response to PDGF. In contrast, PDGF receptor activation of phospholipase C gamma, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and Ras GTP loading was similar in wild-type and G alpha 16Q212L expressing clones. PDGF regulation of membrane ruffling and actin fiber assembly, responses mediated in part by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, were unaffected in G alpha 16Q212L expressing clones. The growth inhibitory action of G alpha 16Q212L expression in Swiss 3T3 cells is downstream of the initial SH2 domain-encoded signal transduction proteins regulated in response to PDGF receptor autophosphorylation. The findings demonstrate that constitutively activated G alpha 16Q212L persistently activates phospholipase C activity and effectively inhibits a subset of cytoplasmic signal transduction pathways involved in growth factor tyrosine kinase receptor stimulation of cell growth. G16/Gq-regulated signal transduction can acutely stimulate specific response pathways involved in mitogenesis; but persistent activation of G16/Gq-regulated effectors, including phospholipase C beta, inhibit tyrosine kinase-initiated mitogenesis. One role for G16/Gq response systems may be to modulate growth factor receptor signaling.
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PMID:Expression of GTPase-deficient G alpha 16 inhibits Swiss 3T3 cell growth. 802 Dec 43


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