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Human platelets, either purified or plasma-enriched, are activated when exposed to free L-phosphotyrosine. Physical aggregation is similar to that induced by collagen, although with distinctive biochemical features. Among these, a mobility shift of a GTP-binding protein specifically recognized by an anti-Ki-v-ras monoclonal antibody and an altered pattern of low molecular weight phosphorylated polypeptides are the most outstanding features. Since free phosphotyrosine is detected in platelets extracts, its role as a new signal transducer as well as its putative modulating action over protein phosphorylation are discussed.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)
PMID:Free L-phosphotyrosine activates human platelets: molecular evidence for a new signal transducer. 128 47

Cell growth and tumor transformation can be restrained in certain cell systems by the action of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta). It has been established that the mechanism whereby TGF-beta 1 inhibits cell growth does not interfere with the triggering of early mitogenic signal transduction mechanisms. Phospholipase C-catalyzed hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) is a relatively late step in the cascade activated by growth factors. Therefore, conceivably activation of phospholipase C-catalyzed hydrolysis of PC could be the target of TGF-beta 1 action. In the study reported here, we demonstrate that TGF-beta 1 inhibits the coupling of ras p21 to the activation of PC hydrolysis, which appears to be critical for the antiproliferative effects of TGF-beta 1.
Mol Cell Biol 1992 Jan
PMID:Phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine is a target of transforming growth factor beta 1 inhibitory signals. 130 92

Microinjection of either Ki-rasVal-12 p21 or the GDP-bound form of Ki-ras p21 plus smg GDP dissociation stimulator (GDS), a stimulatory GDP/GTP exchange protein for Ki-ras p21, smg/rap1/Krev-1 p21, and rho p21, into quiescent Swiss 3T3 cells induced DNA synthesis irrespective of the presence or absence of insulin. The guanosine 5'-(3-O-thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S)-bound form of smg p21B or the GDP-bound form of smg p21B plus smg GDS also induced DNA synthesis but only in the presence of insulin. Either the GDP-bound form of Ki-ras p21 or the same form of smg p21B alone was inactive, but smg GDS alone was slightly active only in the presence of insulin. The morphology of the cells was analyzed by scanning electron, phase-contrast, and confocal laser scanning microscopies. Ki-rasVal-12 p21 induced membrane ruffling irrespective of the presence or absence of insulin. The GTP gamma S-bound form of smg p21B showed the same effect only in the presence of insulin. Either the GDP-bound form of Ki-ras p21, the same form of smg p21B, or smg GDS alone was inactive. Upon microinjection of Ki-rasVal-12 p21, stress fibers markedly decreased and the cells became round and piled up. In contrast, upon microinjection of the GTP gamma S-bound form of smg p21B, stress fibers did not markedly decrease and the cells neither became round nor piled up. These results indicate that both ras p21 and smg p21 are mitogenic in Swiss 3T3 cells but that their actions are slightly different.
Mol Cell Biol 1992 Aug
PMID:Microinjection of smg/rap1/Krev-1 p21 into Swiss 3T3 cells induces DNA synthesis and morphological changes. 132 33

In order to precisely define the sequences that constitute the ras-responsive enhancers element present in the murine retrotransposon NVL3, point mutations were introduced into the previously defined minimal transcriptional enhancer DNA. Analyses of the effects of these point mutations in transient transfection experiments, in gel retention assays, and by methylation interference footprinting indicated that the enhancer element was composed of two binding sites for distinct nuclear factors. Both binding sites were required for activation of the enhancer by either ras or v-fms oncogenes, and the distinct nuclear factors were found in extracts from cells that contained either oncogene. UV cross-linking analysis revealed that the AP1-related binding site, TGACTCT, was recognized by a nuclear factor of apparent molecular size of 50 kilodaltons, that is probably c-jun. The other binding site, CAGGATAT, is very similar to sites recognized by the ets-family of transcription factors, and was recognized by the 120-kilodalton ras-responsive factor-1. Activation of the NVL3 element was reconstituted in an in vitro transcription assay. The ets-related binding site was necessary for this in vitro reconstitution of activity. Thus, the NVL3 enhancer is related to the previously described oncogene-responsive enhancer element present in polyoma virus and is also related to elements identified in several cellular genes known to be ras-responsive, including the transforming growth factor-beta 1 gene.
Mol Endocrinol 1992 Jul
PMID:An enhancer element responsive to ras and fms signaling pathways is composed of two distinct nuclear factor binding sites. 132 18

An antibiotic, azatyrosine [L-beta-(5-hydroxy-2-pyridyl) alanine], specifically converts ras-, raf- or c-erbB2 (neu)-transformed NIH3T3 cells to apparently normal phenotype. The reversion induced by azatyrosine is permanent, and the phenotype of the revertant cells does not change even after prolonged culture in the absence of azatyrosine [N. Shindo-Okada, O. Manabe, H. Nagahara & S. Nishimura (1989). Mol. Carcinogen., 2, 159-167]. In the present study, we found that neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells induced by expression of either the ras or raf oncogenes was inhibited by addition of azatyrosine to the medium. Azatyrosine also inhibited neurite outgrowth induced by microinjection of oncogenic Ras protein into PC12 cells. The dose dependency was much the same for the two systems, inhibition of neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells and reversion of the transformed NIH3T3 cells. Microinjection of azatyrosine into the cells was as effective as addition to the medium, indicating that the target of azatyrosine is intracellular. In contrast, neurite outgrowth induced by nerve growth factor, which has been shown to be mediated by normal Ras [N. Hagag, S. Halegouna & M. Viola (1986). Nature, 319, 680-682], was found to be resistant to azatyrosine. Azatyrosine also showed no effect on neurite outgrowth induced by a membrane-permeant cyclic AMP analog through another pathway. These findings suggest that azatyrosine sensitivity is the result of abnormal signal transduction by oncogenic Ras. It was shown that azatyrosine also inhibited differentiation-associated growth arrest of PC12 cells induced by oncogenic Ras. In Ras-induced neurite outgrowth, the azatyrosine-sensitive process was found to be completed in the first 6-9 h, and is probably essential for the commitment of PC12 cells to differentiation rather than to growth.
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PMID:Azatyrosine inhibits neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells induced by oncogenic Ras. 132 88

In the presence of the glucocorticoid hormone dexamethasone, bovine papillomavirus-1 (BPV-1)-transformed C127 mouse fibroblasts assume a flattened morphology and reach a saturation density of only 50% of that attained without hormone. This phenotypic reversion of transformation is dependent on the continued presence of dexamethasone and occurs with concentrations as low as 1 nM. Dexamethasone also suppresses the growth of the parental C127 cells as well as that of cells transformed by polyoma middle-T. In contrast, the growth of C127 cells transformed by the oncogenes v-H-ras, v-mos, or v-fes is inhibited by low concentrations of dexamethasone (1 nM) and stimulated by higher concentrations (0.1-1 microM), possibly due to dexamethasone-induced transcription from the viral long terminal repeat promoters as is shown for v-H-ras. On the other hand, inhibition of BPV-transformed cell line growth by dexamethasone does not appear to be related to hormone effects on BPV-1 oncogene transcription. Indeed, in several cases, dexamethasone increases the steady state transcript levels of the BPV-1 oncogenes, E5 and E6-E7, while suppressing cellular proliferation. Dexamethasone also rapidly reduces the steady state levels of c-myc in the BPV-transformed cells but has less effect on c-myc expression in the ras-transformed cells. These results demonstrate that the growth-promoting actions of the papillomavirus transforming genes, but not those of several retroviral oncogenes, may be overcome by dexamethasone, which appears to act by down-regulation of c-myc expression.
Mol Endocrinol 1992 Sep
PMID:Glucocorticoid modulation of transformed cell proliferation is oncogene specific and correlates with effects on c-myc levels. 133 73

Signalling proteins such as phospholipase C-gamma (PLC-gamma) or GTPase-activating protein (GAP) of ras contain conserved regions of approximately 100 amino acids termed src homology 2 (SH2) domains. SH2 domains were shown to be responsible for mediating association between signalling proteins and tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, including growth factor receptors. Nck is an ubiquitously expressed protein consisting exclusively of one SH2 and three SH3 domains. Here we show that epidermal growth factor or platelet-derived growth factor stimulation of intact human or murine cells leads to phosphorylation of Nck protein on tyrosine, serine, and threonine residues. Similar stimulation of Nck phosphorylation was detected upon activation of rat basophilic leukemia RBL-2H3 cells by cross-linking of the high-affinity immunoglobulin E receptors (Fc epsilon RI). Ligand-activated, tyrosine-autophosphorylated platelet-derived growth factor or epidermal growth factor receptors were coimmunoprecipitated with anti-Nck antibodies, and the association with either receptor molecule was mediated by the SH2 domain of Nck. Addition of phorbol ester was also able to stimulate Nck phosphorylation on serine residues. However, growth factor-induced serine/threonine phosphorylation of Nck was not mediated by protein kinase C. Interestingly, approximately fivefold overexpression of Nck in NIH 3T3 cells resulted in formation of oncogenic foci. These results show that Nck is an oncogenic protein and a common target for the action of different surface receptors. Nck probably functions as an adaptor protein which links surface receptors with tyrosine kinase activity to downstream signalling pathways involved in the control of cell proliferation.
Mol Cell Biol 1992 Dec
PMID:The SH2 and SH3 domain-containing Nck protein is oncogenic and a common target for phosphorylation by different surface receptors. 133 47

Point-mutational activation of the c-Ki-ras proto-oncogene has been shown to be rare in human hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common primary liver cancer and one usually associated with chronic viral infection. To reveal the association of c-Ki-ras activation with cholangiocarcinogenesis under different etiological backgrounds, the incidence of point mutation at codons 12 and 13 of the c-Ki-ras proto-oncogene was examined in three groups of human liver cancers with differentiation to biliary epithelial cells: Group 1, cholangiocellular carcinoma in Japanese with normal livers; Group 2, cholangiocellular carcinoma in Thais who had lived in an area where the liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini is endemic; and Group 3, combined hepatocellular-cholangiocellular carcinoma, a rare type showing features of both hepatocellular and biliary epithelial differentiation, in Japanese with chronic viral hepatitis with or without cirrhosis. The polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing of its product were used to detect the mutation. Point mutation at codon 12 of the c-Ki-ras gene was detected in five (56%) of nine cases in Group 1. In contrast, the mutation was not detected in any of the cases in Groups 2 and 3. Therefore, point-mutational activation of c-Ki-ras did not seem to be involved in the development of primary liver cancers associated with apparent chronic irritation of liver cells or biliary epithelial cells caused by exogenous liver-fluke or viral infection. On the other hand, point-mutational activation of the c-Ki-ras proto-oncogene may be involved in cholangiocarcinogenesis in liver without preexisting liver-fluke or viral infection.
Mol Carcinog 1992
PMID:Cholangiocarcinomas in Japanese and Thai patients: difference in etiology and incidence of point mutation of the c-Ki-ras proto-oncogene. 133 66

The use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect specific DNA sequences in small amounts of tissues or cells has become a widespread tool in the field of molecular biology. With the better understanding of the clinical significance of oncogene activations in human tumors, the application of PCR in a routine setting is rapidly gaining importance. We have developed a rapid and simple procedure for the detection of mutated ras oncogenes in routinely fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples. DNA is isolated from three 10 microns tissue sections by incubation with a nonionic detergent and proteinase K, and can be directly used for amplification by PCR. The amplified DNA fragments are then dot-blotted onto nylon membranes and are hybridized to radioactively labeled oligodeoxynucleotides, specific for each of the mutated ras sequences. After a selective washing procedure, only fully matched oligodeoxynucleotides remain bound to the membrane, thus revealing the nature of the sequences that were present in the starting material. With this method, the detection of point mutations in ras genes can be performed in a routine setting, and the results of the analyses can be available in as few as 3-4 days.
Diagn Mol Pathol 1992 Jun
PMID:A rapid and simple procedure for the routine detection of ras point mutations in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. 134 59

Carcinogenesis is a multistage process that has been characterized both by the activation of cellular oncogenes and by the loss of function of tumor suppressor genes. Colorectal cancer has been associated with the activation of ras oncogenes and with the deletion of multiple chromosomal regions including chromosomes 5q, 17p, and 18q. Such chromosome loss is often suggestive of the deletion or loss of function of tumor suppressor genes. The candidate tumor suppressor genes from these regions are, respectively, MCC and/or APC, p53, and DCC. In order to further our understanding of the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in tumor progression and, thereby, of normal cell growth, it is important to determine whether defects in one or more of these loci contribute functionally in the progression to malignancy in colorectal cancer and whether correction of any of these defects restores normal growth control in vitro and in vivo. To address this question, we have utilized the technique of microcell-mediated chromosome transfer to introduce normal human chromosomes 5, 17, and 18 individually into recipient colorectal cancer cells. Additionally, chromosome 15 was introduced into SW480 cells as an irrelevant control chromosome. While the introduction of chromosome 17 into the tumorigenic colorectal cell line SW480 yielded no viable clones, cell lines were established after the introduction of chromosomes 15, 5, and 18. Hybrids containing chromosome 18 are morphologically similar to the parental line, whereas those containing chromosome 5 are morphologically distinct from the parental cell line, being small, polygonal, and tightly packed. SW480-chromosome 5 hybrids are strongly suppressed for tumorigenicity, while SW480-chromosome 18 hybrids produce slowly growing tumors in some of the animals injected. Hybrids containing the introduced chromosome 18 but was significantly reduced in several of the tumor reconstitute cell lines. Introduction of chromosome 5 had little to no effect on responsiveness, whereas transfer ot chromosome 18 restored responsiveness to some degree. Our findings indicate that while multiple defects in tumor suppressor genes seem to be required for progression to the malignant state in colorectal cancer, correction of only a single defect can have significant effects in vivo and/or in vitro.
Mol Cell Biol 1992 Mar
PMID:Progression of colorectal cancer is associated with multiple tumor suppressor gene defects but inhibition of tumorigenicity is accomplished by correction of any single defect via chromosome transfer. 134 43


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