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Hundle B, McMahon T, Dadgar J, Chen CH, Mochly-Rosen D, Messing RO. An inhibitory fragment derived from protein kinase Cepsilon prevents enhancement of nerve growth factor responses by ethanol and phorbol esters. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:15028-35. [PMID: 9169479 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.23.15028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We have studied nerve growth factor (NGF)-induced differentiation of PC12 cells to identify PKC isozymes important for neuronal differentiation. Previous work showed that tumor-promoting phorbol esters and ethanol enhance NGF-induced mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activation and neurite outgrowth by a PKC-dependent mechanism. Ethanol also increases expression of PKCdelta and PKCepsilon, suggesting that one these isozymes regulates responses to NGF. To examine this possibility, we established PC12 cell lines that express a fragment encoding the first variable domain of PKCepsilon (amino acids 2-144), which acts as an isozyme-specific inhibitor of PKCepsilon in cardiac myocytes. Phorbol ester-stimulated translocation of PKCepsilon was markedly reduced in these PC12 cell lines. In addition, phorbol ester and ethanol did not enhance NGF-induced MAP kinase activation or neurite outgrowth in these cells. In contrast, phorbol ester and ethanol increased neurite outgrowth and MAP kinase phosphorylation in cells expressing a fragment derived from the first variable domain of PKCdelta. These results demonstrate that PKCepsilon mediates enhancement of NGF-induced signaling and neurite outgrowth by phorbol esters and ethanol in PC12 cells.
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- B Hundle
- Department of Neurology and Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
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Li Y, Davis KL, Sytkowski AJ. Protein Kinase C-ε Is Necessary for Erythropoietin's Up-regulation of c-myc and for Factor-dependent DNA Synthesis. J Biol Chem 1996. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.43.27025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hundle B, McMahon T, Dadgar J, Messing RO. Overexpression of epsilon-protein kinase C enhances nerve growth factor-induced phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinases and neurite outgrowth. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:30134-40. [PMID: 8530420 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.50.30134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Protein kinase C (PKC) activation enhances neurite outgrowth in several cell lines and primary neurons. The PKC isozymes that mediate this response are unknown. One clue to their identity has come from studies using PC12 cells treated with ethanol. In these cells, ethanol increases levels of delta-PKC and epsilon-PKC and markedly enhances nerve growth factor (NGF)-induced neurite outgrowth and activation of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases by a PKC-dependent mechanism. Since these findings suggest that delta-PKC or epsilon-PKC can promote neural differentiation, we studied neurite outgrowth in stably transfected PC12 cell lines that overexpress these isozymes. Overexpression of epsilon-PKC markedly increased NGF-induced neurite outgrowth. This effect was blocked by down-regulating PKC or by treating cells with the PKC inhibitor GF 109203X. In addition, overexpression of epsilon-PKC enhanced NGF-induced phosphorylation of MAP kinases. In contrast, overexpression of delta-PKC did not alter responses to NGF. These results demonstrate that epsilon-PKC promotes NGF-induced neurite outgrowth by enhancing NGF signal transduction. These findings suggest a role for epsilon-PKC in neural differentiation and plasticity.
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- B Hundle
- Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94110, USA
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Vijayasaradhi S, Doskoch PM, Wolchok J, Houghton AN. Melanocyte differentiation marker gp75, the brown locus protein, can be regulated independently of tyrosinase and pigmentation. J Invest Dermatol 1995; 105:113-9. [PMID: 7615964 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12313414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Human melanoma arises from epidermal melanocytes and displays remarkable phenotypic heterogeneity. This heterogeneity in part reflects the ability of melanoma cells to undergo differentiation along a pathway parallel to differentiation of normal melanocytes. Tyrosinase, encoded by the albino (c), and the tyrosinase-related protein-1 or gp75, encoded by the brown (b) locus, are two of the best-characterized markers for melanocyte differentiation. Both molecules are glycoproteins expressed in melanosomes, the site of pigment synthesis. We studied the regulation of these proteins in human melanoma cells induced by the polar-planar compound hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA). In well-differentiated melanoma cell lines, HMBA induced dendritic morphology and specifically regulated the expression of melanosomal glycoproteins (but not a panel of other molecules expressed by melanoma cells). HMBA specifically down-regulated gp75 expression by rapidly decreasing the steady-state level of gp75 mRNA and gp75 synthesis. HMBA was able to down-regulate gp75 expression even in the presence of cholera toxin, which when added alone induced a two- to threefold increase in gp75 expression. In contrast to uniform down-regulation of gp75 expression, HMBA could either up-regulate or down-regulate tyrosinase expression and pigmentation. Based on the differential regulation of gp75 and tyrosinase, melanoma cells could be classified into two groups. In one group, gp75 expression was coordinately regulated with tyrosinase activity and pigmentation. In the other group, gp75 expression and tyrosinase activity and pigmentation were dissociated (with pigmentation coupling to tyrosinase activity, not to gp75 expression). These results show that in mature melanocytic cells, regulation of gp75 expression follows a pattern that can be independent of regulation of tyrosinase and pigmentation.
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- S Vijayasaradhi
- Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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Kindregan HC, Rosenbaum SE, Ohno S, Niles RM. Characterization of conventional protein kinase C (PKC) isotype expression during F9 teratocarcinoma differentiation. Overexpression of PKC alpha alters the expression of some differentiation-dependent genes. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47050-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Bareggi R, Neri LM, Grill V, Cocco L, Martelli AM. An immunohistochemical study of protein kinase C distribution in fetal mouse vertebral column. ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY 1994; 190:47-54. [PMID: 7985811 DOI: 10.1007/bf00185845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Using polyclonal antibodies we have studied the distribution of protein kinase C in fetal mouse low thoracic vertebrae. By means of a pan protein kinase C antiserum recognizing the catalytic domain of the enzyme, we show that protein kinase C is markedly expressed in chondrocytes before birth. The enzyme seems to be very abundant in the more mature cells that are close to ossification centres as well as the periphery of the intervertebral disc, although it can also be detected in chondrocytes. In order to establish which protein kinase C isoenzyme(s) the chondrocytes produce, we employed polyclonal isoenzyme-specific antisera developed against three calcium-dependent isoforms (alpha, beta, gamma) and three calcium-independent isoforms (delta, epsilon, zeta). Secondary antibody conjugated to alkaline phosphatase revealed that chondrocytes markedly express the beta-isoform. Cells were also weakly stained by the anti-epsilon serum. The immunostaining was completely abolished by pre-incubating primary antibodies with the peptide antigens to which they were raised. These results suggest that protein kinase C (and particularly the beta isoform) could play an important role in mouse fetal chondrogenesis of the vertebral column.
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- R Bareggi
- Dipartimento di Morfologia Umana Normale, Trieste, Italy
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Patrone M, Pessino A, Passalacqua M, Sparatore B, Melloni E, Pontremoli S. Protein kinase C isoforms in murine erythroleukemia cells and their involvement in the differentiation process. FEBS Lett 1994; 344:91-5. [PMID: 8181571 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00359-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In addition to alpha, delta and epsilon-protein kinase C, murine erythroleukemia cells contain zeta-PKC and also a c-PKC isoform, named alpha 1, which shows cross-reactivity with an anti-alpha-PKC antipeptide antibody. In a C44 MEL cell clone, characterized by a high rate of differentiation, both c-PKC forms are expressed at a level higher than that of the N23 MEL cell clone which differentiates at a low rate and contains higher levels of epsilon-PKC and particularly of the delta-PKC isozyme. In the course of MEL cell differentiation, delta-PKC in N23 cells and alpha 1-PKC in C44 cells are rapidly down-regulated and the overall process is almost completed before cell commitment. Of the other three PKC isozymes present in both clones, only alpha-PKC is down-regulated to a significant extent. It is proposed that modulation of the signal delivered by each PKC isozyme is one of the biochemical mechanisms involved in MEL cell differentiation.
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- M Patrone
- Institute of Biochemistry, University of Genoa, Italy
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Stanwell C, Gescher A, Bradshaw TD, Pettit GR. The role of protein kinase C isoenzymes in the growth inhibition caused by bryostatin 1 in human A549 lung and MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells. Int J Cancer 1994; 56:585-92. [PMID: 8112895 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910560420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Bryostatin I is a natural product currently under clinical evaluation as an antitumor agent. Like the tumor-promoting phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) it activates protein kinase C (PKC). Bryostatin I inhibits the growth of the human-derived A549 lung and MCF-7 adenocarcinoma cell lines, but much more weakly than TPA. The hypotheses were tested that differences between cell lines in their response to bryostatin I are related to cellular PKC isotype content, and that differences between TPA and bryostatin I in their effects on cell growth are associated with differential abilities to modulate specific PKC isoenzymes. PKC isozyme profiles were studied by Western-blot analysis in the cytosol, particulate and nuclear fractions of A549 and MCF-7 cells. PKCs-alpha, -epsilon and -zeta were detected in both cell types with predominant location in the cytosol. Separation of cytosolic PKC isoenzymes in A549 cells by hydroxylapatite column chromatography and determination of PKC activity in fractions yielded a major peak which contained PKC-alpha. Exposure of cells to bryostatin I or TPA for 30 min caused the redistribution of PKCs-alpha and -epsilon from the cytosol to the particulate and nuclear fractions in a concentration-dependent fashion. PKC-epsilon was completely down-regulated by exposure to 10 nM bryostatin I for 18 hr or to TPA for 24 hr. Down-regulation of PKC-alpha was partial at 10 nM and complete at 1 microM of either agent. Bryostatin I inhibited incorporation of [3H]-labelled thymidine into cells only transiently, whereas TPA arrested growth for several days in A549 cells and irreversibly in MCF-7 cells. A549 cells, in which PKC was depleted by exposure to phorbol ester for 9 weeks, were resistant towards bryostatin-induced inhibition of DNA synthesis. The results suggest that the susceptibility of adenocarcinoma cells towards bryostatin-induced growth delay are determined by cellular levels of PKCs-alpha and/or -epsilon. However, differences between bryostatin I and TPA in their abilities to inhibit cell growth do not seem to be intrinsically related to differences in redistribution or down-regulation of specific PKC isoenzymes.
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- C Stanwell
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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Goodnight J, Mischak H, Mushinski JF. Selective involvement of protein kinase C isozymes in differentiation and neoplastic transformation. Adv Cancer Res 1994; 64:159-209. [PMID: 7879658 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60838-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J Goodnight
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Chang ZL, Beezhold DH. Protein kinase C activation in human monocytes: regulation of PKC isoforms. Immunology 1993; 80:360-6. [PMID: 8288312 PMCID: PMC1422221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The distribution of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-induced activation of PKC in human monocytes was investigated. Using Western blot analysis, PKC beta was found to be the most abundant isoform in monocytes. PKC beta was equally distributed in the cytosol and membrane. PKC-alpha was readily detectable and found predominantly in the cytosol. Little to no PKC-epsilon, gamma, delta, and zeta were observed. Following the treatment of monocytes with PMA, the physical translocation of PKC alpha from the cytosol to the membrane occurred over 60 min. PMA-induced translocation of PKC-beta was difficult to detect by Western blot. Fura-2 analysis demonstrated that PMA-induced PKC translocation was not accompanied by a net change in cytosolic calcium levels. Using histone as a substrate for PKC activity, an extremely rapid translocation of PKC-dependent histone phosphorylation (PKC-DHP) was induced by PMA. Cytosolic PKC-DHP activity decreased to undetectable levels within 8 min. In contrast, analysis of PKC-dependent endogenous substrate phosphorylation (PKC-DESP) showed a pattern with a time-course similar to that observed with Western blot. Thus, translocation of PKC-DESP but not PKC-DHP activity correlated with PKC-alpha as determined by Western blot. The data support the concept that PKC activity is substrate dependent and suggest that using one assay for the measurement of PKC activity may lead to erroneous conclusions.
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- Z L Chang
- Laboratory of Macrophage Biology, Guthrie Research Institute, Sayre, Pennsylvania 18840
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Affiliation(s)
- H Hug
- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Lee H, Ghose-Dastidar J, Winawer S, Friedman E. Signal transduction through extracellular signal-regulated kinase-like pp57 blocked in differentiated cells having low protein kinase C beta activity. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53527-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A rise and fall in 1,2-diacylglycerol content signal hexamethylene bisacetamide-induced erythropoiesis. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35859-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Protein kinase C represents a structurally homologous group of proteins similar in size, structure and mechanism of activation. They can modulate the biological function of proteins in a rapid and reversible manner. Protein kinase C participates in one of the major signal transduction systems triggered by the external stimulation of cells by various ligands including hormones, neurotransmitters and growth factors. Hydrolysis of membrane inositol phospholipids by phospholipase C or of phosphatidylcholine, generates sn-1,2-diacylglycerol, considered the physiological activator of this kinase. Other agents, such as arachidonic acid, participate in the activation of some of these proteins. Activation of protein kinase C by phorbol esters and related compounds is not physiological and may be responsible, at least in part, for their tumor-promoting activity. The cellular localization of the different calcium-activated protein kinases, their substrate and activator specificity are dissimilar and thus their role in signal transduction is unlike. A better understanding of the exact cellular function of the different protein kinase C isoenzymes requires the identification and characterization of their physiological substrates.
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- A Azzi
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland
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Lin N, Bazan HE. Protein kinase C subspecies in rabbit corneal epithelium: increased activity of alpha subspecies during wound healing. Curr Eye Res 1992; 11:899-907. [PMID: 1330442 DOI: 10.3109/02713689209033487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Protein kinase C (PKC) has been implicated in cell proliferation and differentiation. Multiple forms of PKC have been isolated, principally from the brain where PKC is most abundant. In rabbit corneal epithelium, two distinct major peaks of PKC activity were resolved by hydroxyapatite column chromatography. Peak 2, with 65% of the total PKC activity, corresponds to alpha-PKC, based on its mobility in the column and Western blot analysis using specific monoclonal antibodies. Peak 1 did not react with either polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies to PKC alpha-, beta-, and gamma-isoforms suggesting the presence of isoforms specific to the corneal epithelium, or of another member of the PKC family. To investigate possible changes in the amounts of the various PKC subspecies during wound healing, the enzyme activities of the isolated subspecies were assayed 2, 5, and 7 days after corneal de-epithelialization. Two days after wounding, by which time the migratory limbal epithelium had covered the denuded area, total PKC activity was unchanged but alpha-PKC activity had increased to 77% of the total activity, compared with 65% in non-wounded epithelium. An increased proportion of alpha-PKC activity was also observed 5 and 7 days after wounding, during which time proliferation of epithelium continued. We hypothesize that alpha-PKC plays a role in long-term responses after injury such as gene expression and corneal epithelial proliferation. Moreover, these studies indicate that the cornea provides a good model of in vivo wound healing for PKC studies.
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- N Lin
- Department of Ophthalmology, LSU Eye Center, Louisiana State University Medical Center School of Medicine, New Orleans 70112
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