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Query: EC:2.7.11.24 (mitogen-activated protein kinase)
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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

Effect of several vanadium salts, sodium orthovanadate, vanadyl sulfate and sodium metavanadate on protein tyrosine phosphorylation and serine/threonine kinases in chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells overexpressing a normal human insulin receptor was examined. All the compounds stimulated protein tyrosine phosphorylation of two major proteins with molecular masses of 42 kDa (p42) and 44 kDa (p44). The phosphorylation of p42 and p44 was associated with an activation of mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase as well as increased protein tyrosine phosphorylation of p42mapk and p44mapk. Vanadium salts also activated the 90 kDa ribosomal s6 kinase (p90rsk) and 70 kDa ribosomal s6 kinase (p70s6k). Among the three vanadium salts tested, vanadyl sulfate appeared to be slightly more potent than others in stimulating MAP kinases and p70s6k activity. It is suggested that vanadium-induced activation of MAP kinases and ribosomal s6 kinases may be one of the mechanisms by which insulin like effects of this trace element are mediated.
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PMID:Vanadium salts stimulate mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases and ribosomal S6 kinases. 892 50

Many studies suggest that insulin utilizes multiple signal transduction pathways. Insulin's effects are initiated by insulin binding to the insulin receptor, resulting in tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor and intracellular substrates, such as insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), IRS-2, or Shc. We recently demonstrated that immediate-early gene egr-1 transcription was fully induced without phosphorylation of IRS-1 in Chinese hamster ovary cells (Harada, S., Smith, R. M., Smith, J. A., Shah, N. , Hu, D.-Q. & Jarett, L. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 26632-26638). In the present study, we examined the effects of insulin on immediate-early gene egr-1 and c-fos expression in 32D cells overexpressing the insulin receptor (32D/IR), IRS-1 (32D/IRS), or both (32D/IR+IRS) and compared these effects with insulin-induced tyrosine phosphorylation. Insulin (17 nM) increased egr-1 and c-fos expression in 32D/IR and 32D/IR+IRS cells, but not in parental cells or 32D/IRS cells, as determined by Northern blot analysis. Insulin treatment (5 min at 37 degrees C) markedly increased tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins, including the insulin receptor, IRS-1, and Shc, in 32D/IR+IRS cells as determined by immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. In contrast, only two tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, i.e. insulin receptor and Shc, were detected in 32D/IR cells. These data suggest that insulin receptor and Shc phosphorylation is necessary for insulin-induced egr-1 and c-fos expression, but IRS-1 phosphorylation is not necessary or sufficient for the expression of these genes. Furthermore, the effect of specific inhibitors on insulin-induced egr-1 expression was examined. Wortmannin (25 nM), a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor, had no effect on insulin-induced egr-1 expression. In contrast, PD 98059 (30 microM), a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase inhibitor, totally blocked egr-1 expression induced by insulin. These data indicate that mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, but not phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation, is involved in insulin-induced egr-1 expression. Taken together, insulin receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, Shc tyrosine phosphorylation, and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation appear to be the signal transduction pathway responsible for insulin-induced egr-1 expression in 32D cells. These data demonstrate that insulin has multiple signal transduction pathways that vary from cell to cell.
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PMID:Insulin-induced egr-1 and c-fos expression in 32D cells requires insulin receptor, Shc, and mitogen-activated protein kinase, but not insulin receptor substrate-1 and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation. 893 74

The role of the insulin receptor COOH-terminal domain in the regulation of insulin signal transduction was explored with a variety of synthetic peptides. One of the peptides, termed peptide HC, whose structure corresponds to residues 1293-1307 of the insulin proreceptor sequence, enhanced insulin-stimulated autophosphorylation of the insulin receptor in cell-free systems and in semipermeabilized Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells that had been transfected with an expression plasmid encoding the human insulin receptor (CHO/HIRc) at concentrations where there was no detectable effect on basal autophosphorylation levels or on receptor dephosphorylation. A lipophilic analogue of peptide HC, stearyl peptide HC, added to intact CHO/HIRc cells enhanced significantly insulin-stimulated insulin receptor autophosphorylation while having no effect on ligand-stimulated receptor phosphorylation in CHO cells overexpressing either the IGF-1 receptor or epidermal growth factor receptor. Addition of stearyl peptide HC to CHO/HIRc cells resulted in a 2.4 +/- 0.3-fold increase in the amount of insulin-stimulated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase detected in anti-IRS-1 immunoprecipitates and a 2.1 +/- 0.6-fold increase in the levels of tyrosine phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in response to insulin. Finally, a derivative of peptide HC coupled to a biotin moiety was prepared and showed to bind with the beta-subunit of the wild-type insulin receptor and a truncated receptor that lacks 43 amino acids from its carboxyl terminus. However, there was little binding, if any, of the peptide with the IGF-1 receptors or the epidermal growth factor receptors. Taken together, our data demonstrate that a pentadecapeptide related to the carboxyl terminus of the insulin receptor binds to the insulin receptor beta-subunit and that this interaction may contribute to the increased receptor's intrinsic activity and signal transduction.
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PMID:A synthetic peptide derived from a COOH-terminal domain of the insulin receptor specifically enhances insulin receptor signaling. 894 Jan 81

Hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine via receptor-mediated stimulation of phospholipase D produces phosphatidate that can be converted to lysophosphatidate and diacylglycerol. Diacylglycerol is an activator of protein kinase C, whereas phosphatidate and lysophosphatidate stimulate tyrosine kinases and activate the Ras-Raf-mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. These three lipids can stimulate cell division. Conversely, activation of sphingomyelinase by agonists (e.g., tumor necrosis factor-alpha) causes ceramide production that inhibits cell division and produces apoptosis. If ceramides are metabolized to sphingosine and sphingosine 1-phosphate, then these lipids can stimulate phospholipase D and are also mitogenic. By contrast, ceramides inhibit the activation of phospholipase D by decreasing its interaction with the G-proteins, ARF and Rho, which are necessary for its activation. In whole cells, ceramides also stimulate the degradation of phosphatidate, lysophosphatidate, ceramide 1-phosphate, and sphingosine 1-phosphate through a multifunctional phosphohydrolase (the Mg(2+)-independent phosphatidate phosphohydrolase), whereas sphingosine inhibits phosphatidate phosphohydrolase. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha causes insulin resistance, which may be partly explained by ceramide production. Cell-permeable ceramides decrease insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes after 2-24 h, whereas they stimulate basal glucose uptake. These effects do not depend on decreased tyrosine phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate-1 or the interaction of insulin receptor substrate-1 with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. They appear to rely on the differential effects of ceramides on the translocation of GLUT1-and GLUT4-containing vesicles. It is concluded that there is a significant interaction and "cross-talk" between the sphingolipid and glycerolipid pathways that modifies signal transduction to control vesicle movement, cell division, and cell death.
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PMID:"Cross talk" between the bioactive glycerolipids and sphingolipids in signal transduction. 896 Mar 53

To study the interaction between insulin receptor (IR) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) receptor (IGF-IR) tyrosine kinases, we examined IGF-I action in Rat-1 cells expressing a naturally occurring tyrosine kinase-deficient mutant IR (Asp 1048 IR). IGF-I normally stimulated receptor autophosphorylation, IRS-I phosphorylation, and glycogen synthesis in cells expressing Asp 1048 IR. However, the Asp 1048 IR inhibited IGF-I-stimulated thymidine uptake by 45% to 52% and amino acid uptake (aminoisobutyric acid [AIB]) by 58% in Asp 1048 IR cells. Furthermore, IGF-I-stimulated tyrosine kinase activity toward synthetic polymers, Shc phosphorylation, and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activity was inhibited. The inhibition of mitogenesis and AIB uptake was restored with the amelioration of the impaired tyrosine kinase activity and Shc phosphorylation by the introduction of abundant wild-type IGF-IR in Asp 1048 IR cells. These results suggest that the Asp 1048 IR causes a dominant negative effect on IGF-IR in transmitting signals to Shc and MAP kinase activation, which leads to decreased IGF-I-stimulated DNA synthesis, and that the kinase-defective insulin receptor does not affect IGF-I-stimulated IRS-I phosphorylation, which leads to the normal IGF-I-stimulated glycogen synthesis.
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PMID:The dominant negative effect of a kinase-defective insulin receptor on insulin-like growth factor-I-stimulated signaling in Rat-1 fibroblasts. 896 79

The molecular basis of the insulin resistance of adipocytes and skeletal muscle during lactation has been investigated in sheep. The number of insulin receptors per adipocyte or per unit membrane protein for skeletal muscle is unchanged by lactation. The ability of insulin to stimulate autophosphorylation of its beta-subunit was enhanced in adipocytes but not in skeletal muscle during lactation. This increased autophosphorylation was due, at least in part, to enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation and was found when both solubilised, immunoprecipitated insulin receptors and intact adipocytes were incubated with insulin. The ability of the insulin receptor kinase to phosphorylate other proteins did not appear to be altered by lactation; this was shown with lectin-purified insulin receptors using the artificial substrate, polyglutamyl tyrosine, and in intact adipocytes. Lactation had no effect on the ability of insulin to activate two key downstream kinases, mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphatidyl inositol-3-kinase in adipocytes. The study thus shows that the insulin resistance of lactation in sheep is due to changes downstream of the receptor in both adipocytes and skeletal muscle.
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PMID:Effect of lactation on insulin signal transduction in sheep adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. 899 92

The avian sarcoma virus UR2 codes for an oncogenic Gag-Ros fusion protein-tyrosine kinase (PTK). We have previously derived two retroviruses, T6 and NM1, coding for oncogenic Gag-insulin receptor and Gag-insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGFR) fusion proteins, respectively. The Gag-IGFR fusion protein dimerizes, whereas Gag-Ros does not. To identify sequences affecting dimerization and the effect of dimerization on signaling and biological functions, we generated recombinants exchanging the extracellular and transmembrane sequences among the three fusion receptors. The presence of multiple cysteines in the Gag sequence appears to preclude dimerization, since deletion of the 3' cysteine residue allows for dimerization. Most of the chimeric receptors retain high PTK activity and induce transformation regardless of their configuration on the cell surface. UT, a UR2/T6 chimera, retained mitogenic activity but has a markedly reduced transforming ability, while UN7, a UR2/NM1 recombinant, which also harbors Y950F and F951S mutations in IGFR, exhibits dramatic reductions in both activities. All of the fusion receptors can phosphorylate insulin receptor substrate 1 and activate PI 3-kinase. UT protein induces Shc phosphorylation, whereas UN7 protein does not, but both are unable to activate mitogen-activated protein kinase. Our results show that overexpressed oncogenic Gag-fusion receptors do not require dimerization for their signaling and transforming functions and that the extracellular and transmembrane sequences of a receptor PTK can affect its specific substrate interactions.
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PMID:Effect of dimerization on signal transduction and biological function of oncogenic Ros, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor I receptors. 899 40

Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) improves glucose metabolism and growth in patients with leprechaunism. We investigated signal transduction through IGF-I receptor in comparison with epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor in early passages of cultured skin fibroblasts from a normal subject and a patient with leprechaunism whose insulin receptor tyrosine kinase was almost nonexistent. Insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) became tyrosine-phosphorylated and bound growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 (GRB2) quickly by IGF-I. The association of Shc with GRB2 by IGF-I was detected by immunoblot with anti-Shc antibody but was hardly visible with antiphosphotyrosine antibody, which was in marked contrast to efficient tyrosine phosphorylation of Shc by EGF. However, the potency of IGF-I for DNA synthesis was far stronger than EGF, which was not parallel with the potency of these growth factors to activate Shc or MAP kinase. Rather, phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase activity, which was activated by IGF-I about 5- to 10-fold more strongly than EGF, appeared to correlate with mitogenesis. Signal transduction pathways following IGF-I receptor or EGF receptor activation were indistinguishable between the normal subject and the patient. Our results strongly suggest that in human skin fibroblasts, which represent a more physiological cell culture: 1) IRS-1, rather than Shc, is the major tyrosine-phosphorylated protein binding GRB2 in initial phase of IGF-I signaling; 2) mitogenic potency of receptor tyrosine kinases such as IGF-I receptor and EGF receptor may not be determined solely by the amount of Shc-GRB2 complex or the activity of MAP kinase; and 3) in contrast to previous reports, IGF-I and EGF receptor signalings are not defective in leprechaunism.
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PMID:Roles of insulin receptor substrate-1 and Shc on insulin-like growth factor I receptor signaling in early passages of cultured human fibroblasts. 900 10

Shc and insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) are cytoplasmic substrates of tyrosine kinase receptors that engage, localize, and activate downstream SH2 enzymes. Each contains a phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domain that is structurally unrelated to SH2 domains. We have designed high-affinity, cellular inhibitors of the Shc PTB domain by incorporating nonnatural, phosphatase-resistant amino acids into short peptides. None of the inhibitors bind the IRS-1 PTB domain, consistent with distinct specificities for domains. The best inhibitor of the Shc domain was introduced by electroporation into Rat1 fibroblasts that express human insulin receptors. Insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of Shc was inhibited, with no effect on IRS-1, and downstream effects on mitogen-activated protein kinase and DNA synthesis were both inhibited. The PTB domain inhibitor had less influence on epidermal growth factor-induced effects and essentially no impact on serum- or phorbol ester-induced effects. The inhibitor did not affect insulin internalization and its degradation. We conclude that the PTB domain of Shc is critical for its phosphorylation by the insulin receptor, that Shc is an important mediator of insulin's mitogenic effects, and that Shc is not central to insulin receptor cycling in these cells. PTB domains can be inhibited selectively in cells and represent potential targets for drug discovery.
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PMID:Cellular effects of phosphotyrosine-binding domain inhibitors on insulin receptor signaling and trafficking. 903 45


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