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Pulido R. PTEN Inhibition in Human Disease Therapy. Molecules 2018; 23:molecules23020285. [PMID: 29385737 PMCID: PMC6017825 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23020285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The tumor suppressor PTEN is a major homeostatic regulator, by virtue of its lipid phosphatase activity against phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P3], which downregulates the PI3K/AKT/mTOR prosurvival signaling, as well as by its protein phosphatase activity towards specific protein targets. PTEN catalytic activity is crucial to control cell growth under physiologic and pathologic situations, and it impacts not only in preventing tumor cell survival and proliferation, but also in restraining several cellular regeneration processes, such as those associated with nerve injury recovery, cardiac ischemia, or wound healing. In these conditions, inhibition of PTEN catalysis is being explored as a potentially beneficial therapeutic intervention. Here, an overview of human diseases and conditions in which PTEN inhibition could be beneficial is presented, together with an update on the current status of specific small molecule inhibitors of PTEN enzymatic activity, their use in experimental models, and their limitations as research or therapeutic drugs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rafael Pulido
- Biomarkers in Cancer Unit, Biocruces Health Research Institute, 48903 Barakaldo, Spain.
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
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Assaying PTEN catalysis in vitro. Methods 2015; 77-78:51-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Barker CJ, Berggren PO. New Horizons in Cellular Regulation by Inositol Polyphosphates: Insights from the Pancreaticβ-Cell. Pharmacol Rev 2013; 65:641-69. [DOI: 10.1124/pr.112.006775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Goltsov A, Faratian D, Langdon SP, Mullen P, Harrison DJ, Bown J. Features of the reversible sensitivity-resistance transition in PI3K/PTEN/AKT signalling network after HER2 inhibition. Cell Signal 2011; 24:493-504. [PMID: 21996585 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2011.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2011] [Revised: 09/15/2011] [Accepted: 09/27/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Systems biology approaches that combine experimental data and theoretical modelling to understand cellular signalling network dynamics offer a useful platform to investigate the mechanisms of resistance to drug interventions and to identify combination drug treatments. Extending our work on modelling the PI3K/PTEN/AKT signalling network (SN), we analyse the sensitivity of the SN output signal, phospho-AKT, to inhibition of HER2 receptor. We model typical aberrations in this SN identified in cancer development and drug resistance: loss of PTEN activity, PI3K and AKT mutations, HER2 overexpression, and overproduction of GSK3β and CK2 kinases controlling PTEN phosphorylation. We show that HER2 inhibition by the monoclonal antibody pertuzumab increases SN sensitivity, both to external signals and to changes in kinetic parameters of the proteins and their expression levels induced by mutations in the SN. This increase in sensitivity arises from the transition of SN functioning from saturation to non-saturation mode in response to HER2 inhibition. PTEN loss or PIK3CA mutation causes resistance to anti-HER2 inhibitor and leads to the restoration of saturation mode in SN functioning with a consequent decrease in SN sensitivity. We suggest that a drug-induced increase in SN sensitivity to internal perturbations, and specifically mutations, causes SN fragility. In particular, the SN is vulnerable to mutations that compensate for drug action and this may result in a sensitivity-to-resistance transition. The combination of HER2 and PI3K inhibition does not sensitise the SN to internal perturbations (mutations) in the PI3K/PTEN/AKT pathway: this combination treatment provides both synergetic inhibition and may prevent the SN from acquired mutations causing drug resistance. Through combination inhibition treatments, we studied the impact of upstream and downstream interventions to suppress resistance to the HER2 inhibitor in the SN with PTEN loss. Comparison of experimental results of PI3K inhibition in the PTEN upstream pathway with PDK1 inhibition in the PTEN downstream pathway shows that upstream inhibition abrogates resistance to pertuzumab more effectively than downstream inhibition. This difference in inhibition effect arises from the compensatory mechanism of an activation loop induced in the downstream pathway by PTEN loss. We highlight that drug target identification for combination anti-cancer therapy needs to account for the mutation effects on the upstream and downstream pathways.
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- Alexey Goltsov
- Centre for Research in Informatics and Systems Pathology (CRISP), University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, DD1 1HG, United Kingdom.
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- Edinburgh Breakthrough Research Unit and Division of Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Edinburgh Breakthrough Research Unit and Division of Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Edinburgh Breakthrough Research Unit and Division of Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Edinburgh Breakthrough Research Unit and Division of Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research in Informatics and Systems Pathology (CRISP), University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, DD1 1HG, United Kingdom
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Suppression of cellular proliferation and invasion by the concerted lipid and protein phosphatase activities of PTEN. Oncogene 2009; 29:687-97. [PMID: 19915616 PMCID: PMC2816976 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2009.384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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PTEN is a tumour suppressor with phosphatase activity in vitro against both lipids and proteins and other potential non-enzymatic mechanisms of action. Although the importance of PTEN's lipid phosphatase activity in regulating the PI3K signalling pathway is recognized, the significance of PTEN's other mechanisms of action is currently unclear. In this study, we describe the systematic identification of a PTEN mutant, PTEN Y138L, with activity against lipid, but not soluble substrates. Using this mutant, we provide evidence for the interfacial activation of PTEN against lipid substrates. We also show that when re-expressed at physiological levels in PTEN null U87MG glioblastoma cells, the protein phosphatase activity of PTEN is not required to regulate cellular PtdInsP(3) levels or the downstream protein kinase Akt/PKB. Finally, in three-dimensional Matrigel cultures of U87MG cells similarly re-expressing PTEN mutants, both the protein and lipid phosphatase activities were required to inhibit invasion, but either activity alone significantly inhibited proliferation, albeit only weakly for the protein phosphatase activity. Our data provide a novel tool to address the significance of PTEN's separable lipid and protein phosphatase activities and suggest that both activities suppress proliferation and together suppress invasion.
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Riley AM, Trusselle M, Kuad P, Borkovec M, Cho J, Choi JH, Qian X, Shears SB, Spiess B, Potter* BVL. scyllo-inositol pentakisphosphate as an analogue of myo-inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate: chemical synthesis, physicochemistry and biological applications. Chembiochem 2006; 7:1114-22. [PMID: 16755629 PMCID: PMC1892220 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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myo-Inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate (Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5)), an inositol polyphosphate of emerging significance in cellular signalling, and its C-2 epimer scyllo-inositol pentakisphosphate (scyllo-InsP(5)) were synthesised from the same myo-inositol-based precursor. Potentiometric and NMR titrations show that both pentakisphosphates undergo a conformational ring-flip at higher pH, beginning at pH 8 for scyllo-InsP(5) and pH 9 for Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5). Over the physiological pH range, however, the conformation of the inositol rings and the microprotonation patterns of the phosphate groups in Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) and scyllo-InsP(5) are similar. Thus, scyllo-InsP(5) should be a useful tool for identifying biologically relevant actions of Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5), mediated by specific binding sites, and distinguishing them from nonspecific electrostatic effects. We also demonstrate that, although scyllo-InsP(5) and Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) are both hydrolysed by multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase (MINPP), scyllo-InsP(5) is not dephosphorylated by PTEN or phosphorylated by Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) 2-kinases. This finding both reinforces the value of scyllo-InsP(5) as a biological control and shows that the axial 2-OH group of Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) plays a part in substrate recognition by PTEN and the Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) 2-kinases.
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- Andrew M. Riley
- Dr. A. M. Riley, Dr. M. Trusselle, Prof. Dr. B. V. L. Potter, Wolfson Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY (UK), Fax: (+44) 1225-386114, E-mail:
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- Dr. A. M. Riley, Dr. M. Trusselle, Prof. Dr. B. V. L. Potter, Wolfson Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY (UK), Fax: (+44) 1225-386114, E-mail:
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- Dr. P. Kuad, Prof. Dr. B. Spiess, Département de Pharmacochimie de la Communication Cellulaire, UMR 7175-LC1 du CNRS-ULP, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74, route du Rhin, B. P. 24, 67401 Illkirch Cedex (France.)
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- Dr. M. Borkovec, Department of Inorganic, Analytical, and Applied Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
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- Dr. J. Cho, Dr. J. H. Choi, Dr. X. Qian, Dr. S. B. Shears, Inositide Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (USA)
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- Dr. J. Cho, Dr. J. H. Choi, Dr. X. Qian, Dr. S. B. Shears, Inositide Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (USA)
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- Dr. J. Cho, Dr. J. H. Choi, Dr. X. Qian, Dr. S. B. Shears, Inositide Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (USA)
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- Dr. J. Cho, Dr. J. H. Choi, Dr. X. Qian, Dr. S. B. Shears, Inositide Signaling Group, Laboratory of Signal Transduction and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (USA)
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- Dr. P. Kuad, Prof. Dr. B. Spiess, Département de Pharmacochimie de la Communication Cellulaire, UMR 7175-LC1 du CNRS-ULP, Faculté de Pharmacie, 74, route du Rhin, B. P. 24, 67401 Illkirch Cedex (France.)
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- Dr. A. M. Riley, Dr. M. Trusselle, Prof. Dr. B. V. L. Potter, Wolfson Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY (UK), Fax: (+44) 1225-386114, E-mail:
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Casaravilla C, Brearley C, Soulé S, Fontana C, Veiga N, Bessio MI, Ferreira F, Kremer C, Díaz A. Characterization of myo-inositol hexakisphosphate deposits from larval Echinococcus granulosus. FEBS J 2006; 273:3192-203. [PMID: 16792701 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05328.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The abundant metabolite myo-inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6) can form vesicular deposits with cations, a widespread phenomenon in plants also found in the cestode parasite, Echinococcus granulosus. In this organism, the deposits are exocytosed, accumulating in a host-exposed sheath of extracellular matrix termed the laminated layer. The formation and mobilization of InsP6 deposits, which involve precipitation and solubilization reactions, respectively, cannot yet be rationalized in quantitative chemical terms, as the solids involved have not been formally described. We report such a description for the InsP6 deposits from E. granulosus, purified as the solid residue left by mild alkaline digestion of the principal mucin component of the laminated layer. The deposits are largely composed of the compound Ca5H2L.16H2O (L representing fully deprotonated InsP6), and additionally contain Mg2+ (6-9% molar ratio with respect to Ca2+), but not K+. Calculations employing recently available chemical constants show that the precipitation of Ca5H2L.16H2O is predicted by thermodynamics in secretory vesicle-like conditions. The deposits appear to be similar to microcrystalline solids when analysed under the electron microscope; we estimate that each crystal comprises around 200 InsP6 molecules. We calculate that the deposits increase, by three orders of magnitude, the surface area available for adsorption of host proteins, a salient ability of the laminated layer. The major inositol phosphate in the deposits, other than InsP6, is myo-inositol (1,2,4,5,6) pentakisphosphate, or its enantiomer, inositol (2,3,4,5,6) pentakisphosphate. The compound appears to be a subproduct of the intracellular pathways leading to the synthesis and vesicular accumulation of InsP6, rather than arising from extracellular hydrolysis of InsP6.
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- Cecilia Casaravilla
- Cátedra de Inmunología, Facultad de Química/Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Cho J, Choi K, Darden T, Reynolds PR, Petitte JN, Shears SB. Avian multiple inositol polyphosphate phosphatase is an active phytase that can be engineered to help ameliorate the planet's "phosphate crisis". J Biotechnol 2006; 126:248-59. [PMID: 16759730 PMCID: PMC1892222 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2006.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2006] [Revised: 03/24/2006] [Accepted: 04/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Contemporary phytase research is primarily concerned with ameliorating the problem of inadequate digestion of inositol hexakisphosphate (phytate; InsP6) in monogastric farm animal feed, so as to reduce the pollution that results from the high phosphate content of the manure. In the current study we pursue a new, safe and cost-effective solution. We demonstrate that the rate of hydrolysis of InsP6 by recombinant avian MINPP (0.7 micromol/mg protein/min) defines it as by far the most active phytase found to date in any animal cell (the corresponding activity of recombinant mammalian MINPP is only 0.006 micromol/mg protein/min). Although avian MINPP has less than 20% sequence identity with microbial phytases, we create a homology model of MINPP in which it is predicted that the structure of the phytase active site is well-conserved. This model is validated by site-directed mutagenesis and by use of a substrate analogue, scyllo-InsP6, which we demonstrate is only a weak MINPP substrate. In a model chicken cell line, we overexpressed a mutant form of MINPP that is secretion-competent. This version of the enzyme was actively secreted without affecting either cell viability or the cellular levels of any inositol phosphates. Our studies offer a genetic strategy for greatly improving dietary InsP6 digestion in poultry.
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- Jaiesoon Cho
- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, P.O. Box 12233, NC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, P.O. Box 12233, NC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, P.O. Box 12233, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, 3343 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- College of Agriculture and Life Science, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, P.O. Box 12233, NC 27709, USA
- * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 919 541 0793; fax: +1 919 541 0559. E-mail address: (S.B. Shears)
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Yang L, Reece J, Gabriel SE, Shears SB. Apical localization of ITPK1 enhances its ability to be a modifier gene product in a murine tracheal cell model of cystic fibrosis. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:1320-8. [PMID: 16537650 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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A new aspect of research into the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetics-based search for ;modifier genes' that may affect the severity of CF lung disease. Using an alternative, cell biological approach, we show that ITPK1 should be considered a modifier gene. ITPK1 synthesizes an intracellular signal, inositol (3,4,5,6)-tetrakisphosphate [Ins(3,4,5,6)P4]. A bio-activatable, cell-permeable analogue of Ins(3,4,5,6)P4 inhibited Ca2+-dependent secretion of Cl- from polarized monolayers of immortalized mouse tracheal epithelial cells (MTEs). Analysis by high-pressure liquid chromatography showed endogenous Ins(3,4,5,6)P4 levels in CF MTEs were approximately 60% below those in wild-type MTEs (P<0.03). This adaptation, which improves purinergic activation of Ca2+-dependent Cl- secretion in CF MTEs, was exceptionally specific; there was no effect upon the cellular levels of all the other inositol phosphate signals. Real-time PCR provided the explanation: the level of ITPK1 expression in wild-type MTEs was twice as high as that in CF MTEs (P<0.002). The biological impact of this differential gene expression is amplified by ITPK1 being concentrated at the apical membrane of MTEs, which we discovered following confocal immunofluorescence microscopy. Compartmentalization of Ins(3,4,5,6)P4 synthesis adjacent to its site of action will enhance its regulatory capacity.
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- Ling Yang
- Inositol Signaling Section, and N.I.E.H.S. / N.I.H. / D.H.S.S., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Deleu S, Choi K, Reece JM, Shears SB. Pathogenicity of Salmonella: SopE-mediated membrane ruffling is independent of inositol phosphate signals. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:1709-15. [PMID: 16500648 PMCID: PMC1892211 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2006] [Accepted: 02/03/2006] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Studies [Zhou, D., Chen, L.-M., Hernandez, L., Shears, S.B., and Galán, J.E. (2001) A Salmonella inositol polyphosphatase acts in conjunction with other bacterial effectors to promote host-cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and bacterial internalization. Mol. Microbiol. 39, 248-259] with engineered Salmonella mutants showed that deletion of SopE attenuated the pathogen's ability to deplete host-cell InsP5 and remodel the cytoskeleton. We pursued these observations: In SopE-transfected host-cells, membrane ruffling was induced, but SopE did not dephosphorylate InsP5, nor did it recruit PTEN (a cytosolic InsP5 phosphatase) for this task. However, PTEN strengthened SopE-mediated membrane ruffling. We conclude SopE promotes host-cell InsP5 hydrolysis only with the assistance of other Salmonella proteins. Our demonstration that Salmonella-mediated cytoskeletal modifications are independent of inositolphosphates will focus future studies on elucidating alternate pathogenic consequences of InsP5 metabolism, including ion channel conductance and apoptosis.
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- Sandrine Deleu
- Inositol Signaling Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Inositol Signaling Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Inositol Signaling Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
- Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
- *Corresponding author. Fax: +919 541 0559, E-mail address: (S.B. Shears)
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