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Clark O, Park I, Di Florio A, Cichon AC, Rustin S, Jugov R, Maeshima R, Stoker AW. Oxovanadium-based inhibitors can drive redox-sensitive cytotoxicity in neuroblastoma cells and synergise strongly with buthionine sulfoximine. Cancer Lett 2014; 357:316-327. [PMID: 25444896 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2014.11.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Revised: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In a wide range of neuroblastoma-derived lines oxovanadium compounds such as bis(maltolato)oxovanadium(IV) (BMOV) are cytotoxic. This is not explained by oxidative stress or inhibition of ion channels. Genotoxicity is unlikely given that a p53 response is absent and p53-mutant lines are also sensitive. Cytotoxicity is inhibited by N-acetyl cysteine and glutathione ester, indicating that BMOV action is sensitive to cytoplasmic redox and thiol status. Significantly, combining BMOV with glutathione synthesis inhibition greatly enhances BMOV-induced cell death. This combination treatment triggers high AKT pathway activation, highlighting the potential functional importance of PTP inhibition by BMOV. AKT activation itself, however, is not required for cytotoxicity. Oxovanadium compounds may thus represent novel leads as p53-independent therapeutics for neuroblastoma.
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- Owen Clark
- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Cancer Section, Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK.
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Takahashi T, Huynh-Do U, Daniel TO. Renal microvascular assembly and repair: power and promise of molecular definition. Kidney Int 1998; 53:826-35. [PMID: 9551388 DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.1998.00822.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Developmental assembly of the renal microcirculation is a precise and coordinated process now accessible to experimental scrutiny. Although definition of the cellular and molecular determinants is incomplete, recent findings have reframed concepts and questions about the origins of vascular cells in the glomerulus and the molecules that direct cell recruitment, specialization and morphogenesis. New findings illustrate principles that may be applied to defining critical steps in microvascular repair following glomerular injury. Developmental assembly of endothelial, mesangial and epithelial cells into glomerular capillaries requires that a coordinated, temporally defined series of steps occur in an anatomically ordered sequence. Recent evidence shows that both vasculogenic and angiogenic processes participate. Local signals direct cell migration, proliferation, differentiation, cell-cell recognition, formation of intercellular connections, and morphogenesis. Growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases on vascular cells are important mediators of many of these events. Cultured cell systems have suggested that basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) promote endothelial cell proliferation, migration or morphogenesis, while genetic deletion experiments have defined an important role for PDGF beta receptors and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) B in glomerular development. Receptor tyrosine kinases that convey non-proliferative signals also contribute in kidney and other sites. The EphB1 receptor, one of a diverse class of Eph receptors implicated in neural cell targeting, directs renal endothelial migration, cell-cell recognition and assembly, and is expressed with its ligand in developing glomeruli. Endothelial TIE2 receptors bind angiopoietins (1 and 2), the products of adjacent supportive cells, to signals direct capillary maturation in a sequence that defines cooperative roles for cells of different lineages. Ultimately, definition of the cellular steps and molecular sequence that direct microvascular cell assembly promises to identify therapeutic targets for repair and adaptive remodeling of injured glomeruli.
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- T Takahashi
- Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Lahaye DH, Camps MG, Erp PE, Peters PH, Zoelen EJ. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor density controls mitogenic activation of normal rat kidney (NRK) cells by EGF. J Cell Physiol 1998; 174:9-17. [PMID: 9397151 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199801)174:1<9::aid-jcp2>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Normal rat kidney (NRK) fibroblasts are immortalized cells that are strictly dependent on externally added growth factors for proliferation. When cultured in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF) as the only growth stimulating hormone, these cells have a normal phenotype and undergo density-dependent growth inhibition. It has been postulated that this density-arrest results from a decrease of EGF receptor levels below a threshold level which makes these cells unresponsive to stimulation by EGF. In the present study, we show that NRK cells, made quiescent by serum-deprivation at submaximum density, are mitogenically still responsive to EGF, but show enhanced mitogenic stimulation after 8 hr pre-treatment with either transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) or retinoic acid (RA), while prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) and bradykinin (BK) enhance the mitogenic stimulation by EGF only slightly under these conditions. Addition of TGF beta or RA results in an increase of both 125I-EGF-binding capacity and EGF receptor mRNA levels. Using flow cytometric analysis, we show that pre-treatment with TGF beta or RA increases the percentage of cells entering the cell cycle as a function of time. Furthermore, pre-treatment of the cells with TGF beta or RA increases the rate of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation by EGF. PGF2 alpha and BK also increase EGF receptor levels, but only with delayed kinetics. These results show that already in serum-deprived quiescent NRK cells, EGF receptor levels limit EGF-induced mitogenic stimulation. This observation provides further evidence for the regulating role of the EGF receptor in density-dependent growth control of NRK cells.
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- D H Lahaye
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Siebler T, Kiess W, Linder B, Kessler U, Schwarz HP, Nissley SP. Pertussis toxin sensitive G-proteins are not involved in the mitogenic signaling pathway of insulin-like growth factor-I in normal rat kidney epithelial (NRKE) cells. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1996; 62:65-71. [PMID: 8795068 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(95)00159-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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There is controversy as to whether or not a pertussis toxin sensitive G-protein is involved in the signaling pathway of insulin-like growth factor-I. We have used normal rat kidney epithelial (NRKE) cells to ask whether or not a pertussis toxin sensitive G-protein was involved in IGF-I stimulated DNA synthesis. NRKE cells express both IGF and IGF-II/M6P receptors and respond to IGF-I with increased thymidine incorporation into DNA. Under many circumstances incubation of cells/cell membranes with GTP analogues will inhibit binding of ligands that are linked to a G-protein-receptor pathway. However, when NRKE membrane preparations were incubated with 125I-IGF-I or 125I-IGF-II in the presence or absence of GTP gamma S, ATP and GTP, binding of the radioligands was not affected by the GTP-analogue. IGF-I and factors from serum of hypophysectomized rats (HRS) stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA of NRKE cells. Under serum-free conditions in the presence of EGF (2 ng/ml) and PDGF (1 ng/ml) pertussis toxin over a wide range of doses had no effect upon IGF-I stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA of NRKE cells. In addition, PT at a dose of 100 ng/ml had no effect on IGF-I(0.2-50 ng/ml) stimulated DNA synthesis of NRKE cells. However, PT at doses of 5, 50, 500, 5000 and 50,000 ng/ml was capable to ADP-ribosylate a 40 kDa protein in NRKE cell plasma membrane preparations corresponding to known PT-sensitive G-proteins. We conclude, that (1) PT-sensitive G-proteins and both IGF-I and IGF-II/M6P receptors are present in NRKE cell plasma membrane preparations, and most importantly, that (2) PT-sensitive G-proteins are not involved in the mitogenic signaling pathway of IGF-I in NRKE cells.
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- T Siebler
- Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
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Campan M, Yoshizumi M, Seidah NG, Lee ME, Bianchi C, Haber E. Increased proteolytic processing of protein tyrosine phosphatase mu in confluent vascular endothelial cells: the role of PC5, a member of the subtilisin family. Biochemistry 1996; 35:3797-802. [PMID: 8620001 DOI: 10.1021/bi952552d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Cleavage and subsequent release of the extracellular domains of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTP) occur at high cell density and may have an important role in regulating their activity. Because cleavage of RPTP occurs at a target motif (RXK/RR) recognized by a family of subtilisin/kexin-like endoproteases, we postulated that members of the subtilisin family may have an important role in this cleavage. We show in this report that the membrane-associated RPTPmu--both in its full 200-kDa form and as a 100-kDa cleavage product--is upregulated 4- and 7-fold, respectively, as human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) approach confluence. To determine whether RPTPmu cleavage depended on PC5 (a subtilisin/kexin like endoprotease present in endothelial cells), we transfected COS cells with expression plasmids coding for RPTPmu and PC5 or the closely related protease PACE4. PC5, but not PACE4, cleaved RPTPmu, and RPTPmu cleavage was absent in COS cells transfected with an expression plasmid encoding a mutant PC5 whose active-site serine had been mutated to alanine. We also performed RNA blot analysis to determine whether PC5 expression was affected by confluence in HUVEC. PC5 mRNA levels were upregulated by more than 30-fold when confluence in HUVEC increased from 25% to 100%. These results indicate that PC5 may have an important role in mediating the cleavage of RPTPmu in response to contact inhibition in HUVEC.
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- M Campan
- Cardiovascular Biology Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Moriyama T, Kawanishi S, Inoue T, Imai E, Kaneko T, Xia C, Takenaka M, Noguchi T, Kamada T, Ueda N. cDNA cloning of a cytosolic protein tyrosine phosphatase (RKPTP) from rat kidney. FEBS Lett 1994; 353:305-8. [PMID: 7957881 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)01064-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A rat cDNA encoding a non-receptor type phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTPase; EC 3.1.3.48) was identified. The 1608 bp cDNA contains a single open reading frame that predicts a 382 amino acid protein with M(r) 44,438. The predicted protein has no apparent signal or transmembrane sequences, suggesting that it is a cytosolic protein. The C-terminal region has a PTPase catalytic domain that has 40-50% nucleic acid homology to other known PTPases. The N-terminal region has little amino acid sequence homology to any other known sequences. The recombinant protein of the cloned cDNA expressed in Escherichia coli was shown to possess PTPase activity using myelin basic protein, tyrosine phosphorylated by p43v-abl tyrosine kinase, as a substrate.
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- T Moriyama
- First Department of Medicine, Osaka University School of Medicine, Japan
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Van Zoelen EJ, Peters PH, Afink GB, Van Genesen S, De Roos DG, Van Rotterdam W, Theuvenet AP. Bradykinin-induced growth inhibition of normal rat kidney (NRK) cells is paralleled by a decrease in epidermal-growth-factor receptor expression. Biochem J 1994; 298 ( Pt 2):335-40. [PMID: 8135739 PMCID: PMC1137944 DOI: 10.1042/bj2980335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Normal rat kidney fibroblasts, grown to density arrest in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), can be induced to undergo phenotypic transformation by treatment with transforming growth factor beta or retinoic acid. Here we show that bradykinin blocks this growth-stimulus-induced loss of density-dependent growth arrest by a specific receptor-mediated mechanism. The effects of bradykinin are specific, and are not mimicked by other phosphoinositide-mobilizing agents such as prostaglandin F2 alpha. Northern-blot analysis and receptor-binding studies demonstrate that bradykinin also inhibits the retinoic acid-induced increase in EGF receptor levels in these cells. These studies provide additional evidence that EGF receptor levels modulate EGF-induced expression of the transformed phenotype in these cells.
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- E J Van Zoelen
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, The Netherlands
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Mourey RJ, Dixon JE. Protein tyrosine phosphatases: characterization of extracellular and intracellular domains. Curr Opin Genet Dev 1994; 4:31-9. [PMID: 8193537 DOI: 10.1016/0959-437x(94)90088-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) play an important role in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. With over 30 PTPs identified, the specific functions of these enzymes are now being addressed. The identification of extracellular domain receptor-like PTP interactions and the characterization of intracellular PTP 'targeting' domains represent recent efforts in this pursuit.
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- R J Mourey
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, Walther Cancer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0606
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