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Query: EC:2.7.11.24 (mitogen-activated protein kinase)
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Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) catalyses the rate-limiting step in hepatic gluconeogenesis. Glucagon (via the second messenger cAMP) and glucocorticoids stimulate transcription of the PEPCK gene whereas insulin and phorbol esters have a dominant inhibitory effect. Wortmannin, an inhibitor of 1-phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase), blocks the inhibition of glucocorticoid- and cAMP-stimulated PEPCK gene transcription by insulin. By contrast, although phorbol esters mimic the action of insulin on the regulation of PEPCK gene transcription, wortmannin does not block the effect of these agents. Thus PI 3-kinase is required for the regulation of PEPCK gene expression by insulin but not by phorbol esters. In liver cells, insulin administration stimulates the activity of multiple protein kinases, including the p42/p44 Mitogen Activated Protein (MAP) kinase and the p70/p85 ribosomal protein S6 kinase. Selective inhibition of the activation of either kinase, utilizing the compounds PD98059 and rapamycin respectively, does not affect insulin regulation of PEPCK gene transcription. Thus regulation of PEPCK gene transcription requires PI 3-kinase but does not require the activation of either p42/p44 MAP kinase or p70/p85 ribosomal protein S6 kinase.
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PMID:New connections in the regulation of PEPCK gene expression by insulin. 865 Feb 66

Ras proteins are proto-oncogene products that are critical components of signalling pathways leading from cell surface receptors to control of cellular proliferation, morphology and differentiation. the ability of Ras to activate the MAP kinase pathway through interaction with the serine/threonine kinase Raf is now well established. However, recent work has shown that Ras can also interact directly with the catalytic subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase and is involved in control of the lipid kinase in intact cells. A model is presented in which both tyrosine phosphoprotein interaction with the regulatory p85 subunit and Ras. GTP interaction with the catalytic p110 subunit is required to achieve optimal activation of phosphatidylinositol 3'kinase in response to extracellular stimuli. The ability of Ras to regulate phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase may be important both in Ras control of cellular morphology through the actin cytoskeleton and also in Ras control of DNA synthesis.
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PMID:Phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase: one of the effectors of Ras. 865 Feb 70

The role of phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase in specific aspects of insulin signaling was explored in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Inhibition of PI 3-kinase activity by LY294002 or wortmannin significantly enhanced basal and insulin-stimulated GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Furthermore, removal of the inhibitory influence of PI 3-kinase on GAP resulted in dose-dependent decreases in the ability of insulin to stimulate p21ras. This effect was specific to adipocytes, as inhibition of PI 3-kinase did not influence GAP in either 3T3-L1 fibroblasts, Rat-1 fibroblasts, or CHO cells. Immunodepletion of either of the two subunits of the PI 3-kinase (p85 or p110) yielded similar activation of GAP, suggesting that catalytic activity of p110 plays an important role in controlling GAP activity in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Inhibition of PI 3-kinase activity in 3T3-L1 adipocytes resulted in abrogation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and thymidine incorporation. In contrast, effects of insulin on glycogen synthase and mitogen-activated protein kinase activity were inhibited only at higher concentrations of LY294002. It appears that in adipocytes, P1 3-kinase prevents activation of GAP. Inhibition of PI 3-kinase activity or immunodepletion of either one of its subunits results in activation of GAP and decreases in GTP loading of p21ras.
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PMID:Functional interactions of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase with GTPase-activating protein in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. 865 18

We have shown previously that wortmannin partially inhibits mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activated by platelet-activating factor (PAF) in guinea pig neutrophils (Ferby, M. I., Waga, I., Sakanaka, C., Kume, K., and Shimizu, T. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 30485-30488). To identify whether p85-dependent phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase is a target molecule of wortmannin in this inhibitory process, we established a murine macrophage cell line (P388D1), inducibly expressing a dominant-negative p85, delta p85. Upon induction of delta p85 by isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside, PAF still induced unaltered activation of MAPK, which was inhibited completely by wortmannin and 1,2-bis-(O-aminophenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester in an additive manner. Thus, PAF activates MAPK in P388D1 cells via two distinct pathways, one calcium-dependent and another calcium-independent, but wortmannin-sensitive. The inhibition of calcium-independent activation of MAPK by wortmannin does not involve p85-dependent phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.
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PMID:Wortmannin inhibits mitogen-activated protein kinase activation by platelet-activating factor through a mechanism independent of p85/p110-type phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. 866 43

The hexokinases, by converting glucose to glucose 6-phosphate, help maintain the glucose concentration gradient that results in the movement of glucose into cells through the facilitative glucose transporters. Hexokinase II (HKII) is the major hexokinase isoform in skeletal muscle, heart, and adipose tissue. Insulin induces HKII gene transcription in L6 myotubes, and this, in turn, increases HKII mRNA and the rates of HKII protein synthesis and glucose phosphorylation in these cells. Inhibitors of distinct insulin signaling pathways were used to dissect the molecular mechanism by which HKII gene expression is induced by insulin in L6 myotubes. Treatment with wortmannin, an inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase), or with rapamycin, an inhibitor of the pathway from the insulin receptor to p70/p85 ribosomal S6 protein kinase (p70(s6k)), prevented the induction of HKII mRNA by insulin. In contrast, treatment with PD98059, an inhibitor of mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, had no effect on insulin-induced HKII mRNA. In addition, rapamycin blocked the insulin-induced expression of an HKII promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase fusion gene transiently transfected into L6 myotubes, whereas PD98059 had no such effect. These results suggest that a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/p70(s6k)-dependent pathway is required for regulation of HKII gene transcription by insulin and that the Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent pathway is probably not involved.
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PMID:Analysis of the signaling pathway involved in the regulation of hexokinase II gene transcription by insulin. 866 15

The growth-promoting effects of gastrin on normal and neoplastic gastrointestinal tissues have been shown to be mediated by the gastrin/CCKB receptor, which belongs to the family of G protein-coupled receptors. However, the downstream signaling pathways activated by gastrin are not well characterized. In the present study, we demonstrate that gastrin stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1), the major cytoplasmic substrate of the insulin receptor. The gastrin-induced phosphorylation of IRS-1 was rapid and transient, occurring within 30 s of treatment and diminishing thereafter. IRS-1 binds several proteins containing Src homology 2 domains through its multiple tyrosine phosphorylation sites. Following gastrin stimulation, we observed a time- and dose-dependent association of IRS-1 with the p85 regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase). In addition, activation of PI 3-kinase was detected in anti-IRS-1 immunoprecipitates from gastrin-treated cells, suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1, which leads to the rapid recruitment of p85, might be one mechanism used by gastrin to activate PI 3-kinase. We have previously reported that tyrosine phosphorylation of Shc and its association with the Grb2-Sos complex may contribute to the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway by gastrin. We report here that Grb2 also interacts with tyrosine-phosphorylated IRS-1 in response to gastrin. Taken together, our results suggest that IRS-1 may serve as a converging target in the signaling pathways stimulated by receptors that belong to different families, such as the gastrin/CCKB G protein-coupled receptor and the insulin receptor.
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PMID:Gastrin stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 and its association with Grb2 and the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. 882 90

In bovine airway smooth-muscle cells platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and endothelin (Et-1) stimulate sustained and comparable activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) but display very different mitogenic efficacies, with PDGF inducing 50 times more DNA synthesis than Et-1. To examine additional signalling pathways which may be involved in this response, we investigated the role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PtdIns 3-kinase)/p70 ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70s6k) in mediating PDGF- and Et-1-induced mitogenesis, and whether inhibition of this pathway may underly the ability of cAMP to inhibit cell proliferation. PDGF stimulated an increase in PtdIns 3-kinase activity and a sustained 15-fold increase in p70s6k activity that was abolished by both wortmannin and rapamycin. Et-1, however, stimulated only a 2-fold increase in p70s6k activity that was rapamycin-sensitive but wortmannin-insensitive. DNA synthesis stimulated by PDGF (50-fold) and Et-1 (2-fold) followed a similar pattern of inhibition. Pretreatment with phorbol ester did not affect p70s6k activation in response to PDGF. Raising intracellular cAMP levels using forskolin, however, resulted in a marked time-dependent inhibition of p70s6k activity, a decrease in the tyrosine phosphorylation of the PtdIns 3-kinase p85 subunit and reduced PtdIns 3-kinase activity. Forskolin also inhibited PDGF-stimulated DNA synthesis. These results suggest that PtdIns 3-kinase-dependent activation of p70s6k may determine mitogenic efficacy of agonists that generate comparable MAP kinase signals. Negative regulation of PtdIns 3-kinase by cAMP may play an important role in the inhibition of airway smooth-muscle cell proliferation.
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PMID:A regulatory role for cAMP in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/p70 ribosomal S6 kinase-mediated DNA synthesis in platelet-derived-growth-factor-stimulated bovine airway smooth-muscle cells. 883 45

We have reported previously that substitution of the transmembrane domain of the insulin receptor with that of the erbB-2 oncogene (IRerbV-->E) results in constitutive activation of the insulin receptor kinase. Compared to NIH3T3 cells overexpressing wild-type insulin receptors (IRwt), cells overexpressing IRerbV-->E displayed a decrease in IRS-1 protein content by 55%, but basal tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 was increased. This resulted in an increased association of IRS-1 with the p85 subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, increased phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity in anti-IRS-1 immunoprecipitates, constitutive activation of p70 S6 protein kinase, and an increased association of Grb2 with Shc in the absence of ligand. However, Grb2 association with IRS-1 could not be detected in the basal or insulin-stimulated states, and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activity could not be stimulated by insulin, epidermal growth factor, or platelet-derived growth factor. In contrast to IRerbV-->E, the insulin receptor content and its tyrosine phosphorylation were significantly decreased in IRwt cells chronically stimulated (>24 h) with insulin. With decreased IRS-1 content, tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 was decreased by over 75%, leading to decreased IRS-1-associated PI 3-kinase and Grb2. In addition, Grb2 association with Shc and activation of MAPK and the p70 S6 kinase were insensitive to insulin stimulation. By contrast, association of Grb2 with Shc and activation of MAPK, but not the p70 S6 kinase, could be stimulated by epidermal growth factor or platelet-derived growth factor. These data suggest that there are multiple levels of postreceptor desensitization to insulin action. These are used somewhat differently in these two different models, probably due in part to the difference in receptor down-regulation.
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PMID:Different pathways of postreceptor desensitization following chronic insulin treatment and in cells overexpressing constitutively active insulin receptors. 891 Apr 37

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) activation is necessary for many insulin-induced metabolic and mitogenic responses. However, it is unclear whether PI3K activation is sufficient for any of these effects. To address this question we increased PI3K activity in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes by adenovirus-mediated expression of both the inter-SH2 region of the regulatory p85 subunit of PI3K (iSH2) and the catalytic p110 alpha subunit (p110). Coexpression resulted in PI3K activity that exceeded insulin-stimulated activity by two- to fivefold in cytosol, total membranes, and the low density microsome (LDM) fraction, the site of greatest insulin stimulation. While insulin increased glucose transport 15-fold, coexpression of iSH2-p110 increased transport (5.2-) +/- 0.7-fold with a parallel increase in GLUT4 translocation to the plasma membrane. Constitutive activation of PI3K had no effect on maximally insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Neither basal nor insulin-stimulated activity of glycogen synthase or mitogen-activated protein kinase was altered by iSH2-p110 coexpression. DNA synthesis was increased twofold by insulin in control 3T3-L1 adipocytes transduced with beta-galactosidase-encoding recombinant adenovirus, while iSH2-p110 coexpression increased DNA synthesis fivefold. These data indicate that (i) increased PI3K activity is sufficient to activate some but not all metabolic responses to insulin, (ii) activation of PI3K to levels exceeding the effect of insulin in adipocyte LDM results in only a partial stimulation of glucose transport, and (iii) increased PI3K activity in the absence of growth factor or oncoprotein stimulation is a potent stimulus of DNA synthesis.
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PMID:Differential effects of constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase on glucose transport, glycogen synthase activity, and DNA synthesis in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. 897 99

The role of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in preventing apoptosis was examined in differentiated PC12 cells. Induction of differentiation was achieved using nerve growth factor, and apoptosis was provoked by serum withdrawal. After 4-6 h of serum deprivation, apoptosis was initiated, concomitant with a 30% decrease in cell number and a 75% decrease in MTT activity. IGF-1 was capable of preventing apoptosis at concentrations as low as 10(-9) M and as early as 4 h. The phosphatidylinositol 3' (PI3')-kinase inhibitors wortmannin (at concentrations of 10(-8) M) and LY294002 (10(-6) M) blocked the effect of IGF-1. The pp70 S6 kinase (pp70S6K) inhibitor rapamycin (10(-8) M) was, however, less effective in blocking IGF-1 action. Moreover, stable transfection of a dominant-negative p85 (subunit of PI3'-kinase) construct in PC12 cells enhanced apoptosis provoked by serum deprivation. Interestingly, in the cells overexpressing the dominant-negative p85 protein, IGF-1 was still capable of inhibiting apoptosis, suggesting the existence of a second pathway involved in the IGF-1 effect. Blocking the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway with the specific mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular-response kinase kinase inhibitor PD098059 (10(-5) M) inhibited the IGF-1 effect. When wortmannin and PD098059 were given together, the effect was synergistic. The results presented here suggest that IGF-1 is capable of preventing apoptosis by activation of multiple signal transduction pathways.
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PMID:Insulin-like growth factor 1 inhibits apoptosis using the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. 899 41


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