Transforming growth factor type beta (TGFbeta) is a pleiotropic factor that regulates different cellular activities including cell growth, differentiation, and extracellular matrix deposition. All the known effects of TGFbeta appear to be mediated by its interaction with cell surface receptors that possess a serine/threonine kinase activity. However, the intracellular signals that follow receptor activation and lead to the different cellular responses to TGFbeta are still largely unknown. On the basis of the different sensitivity to the protein kinase inhibitor 2-aminopurine and the phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, we identified two distinct pathways through which TGFbeta activates a genomic response. Consistently, 2-aminopurine prevented and okadaic acid potentiated the induction of JE by TGFbeta. The induction of PAI-1 and junB was instead potentiated by 2-aminopurine, after a transient inhibition and was unaffected by okadaic acid. The superinducing effect of 2-aminopurine required the presence of a functional RB protein since it was abolished in SV40 large T antigen-transfected cells, absent in the BT549 and Saos-2 RB-defective cell lines, and restored in BT549 and Saos-2 cells after reintroduction of pRB. The effects of 2-aminopurine on the TGFbeta inducible junB expression occur in all the cell lines examined suggesting that junB, and possibly other genes, can be regulated by TGFbeta through a distinct pRB-dependent pathway.

Giannini, G., Marcotullio, L.D., Zazzeroni, F., Alesse, E., Zani, M., T'Ang, A., et al. (1997). 2-Aminopurine unravels a role for pRB in the regulation of gene expression by transforming growth factor beta. THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 272(8), 5313-5319 [10.1074/jbc.272.8.5313].

2-Aminopurine unravels a role for pRB in the regulation of gene expression by transforming growth factor beta

Sorrentino, V.;
1997-01-01

Abstract

Transforming growth factor type beta (TGFbeta) is a pleiotropic factor that regulates different cellular activities including cell growth, differentiation, and extracellular matrix deposition. All the known effects of TGFbeta appear to be mediated by its interaction with cell surface receptors that possess a serine/threonine kinase activity. However, the intracellular signals that follow receptor activation and lead to the different cellular responses to TGFbeta are still largely unknown. On the basis of the different sensitivity to the protein kinase inhibitor 2-aminopurine and the phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, we identified two distinct pathways through which TGFbeta activates a genomic response. Consistently, 2-aminopurine prevented and okadaic acid potentiated the induction of JE by TGFbeta. The induction of PAI-1 and junB was instead potentiated by 2-aminopurine, after a transient inhibition and was unaffected by okadaic acid. The superinducing effect of 2-aminopurine required the presence of a functional RB protein since it was abolished in SV40 large T antigen-transfected cells, absent in the BT549 and Saos-2 RB-defective cell lines, and restored in BT549 and Saos-2 cells after reintroduction of pRB. The effects of 2-aminopurine on the TGFbeta inducible junB expression occur in all the cell lines examined suggesting that junB, and possibly other genes, can be regulated by TGFbeta through a distinct pRB-dependent pathway.
1997
Giannini, G., Marcotullio, L.D., Zazzeroni, F., Alesse, E., Zani, M., T'Ang, A., et al. (1997). 2-Aminopurine unravels a role for pRB in the regulation of gene expression by transforming growth factor beta. THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 272(8), 5313-5319 [10.1074/jbc.272.8.5313].
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