Overexpression of Protein Kinase C α in Swiss/3T3 Cells Reduces The Number of Both High and Low Affinity of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors

1991 ◽  
pp. 271-281
Author(s):  
Hagit Eldar-Finkelman ◽  
Yaffa Zismann ◽  
Axell Ullrich ◽  
Etta Livneh
1986 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 2211-2222 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Zachary ◽  
J W Sinnett-Smith ◽  
E Rozengurt

Addition of bombesin to quiescent cultures of Swiss 3T3 cells caused a rapid increase in the phosphorylation of an Mr 80,000 cellular protein (designated 80k). The effect was both concentration and time dependent; enhancement in 80k phosphorylation could be detected as early as 10 s after the addition of peptide. Recently, a rapid increase in the phosphorylation of an 80k cellular protein after treatment with phorbol esters or diacylglycerol has been shown to reflect the activation of protein kinase C in intact fibroblasts (Rozengurt, E., A. Rodriguez-Pena, and K. A. Smith, 1983, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 80:7244-7248; Rozengurt, E., A. Rodriguez-Pena, M. Coombs, and J. Sinnett-Smith, 1984, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 81:5748-5752). The 80k phosphoproteins generated in response to bombesin and to phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate were identical as judged by one- and two-dimensional PAGE and by peptide mapping after partial proteolysis with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease. In addition, prolonged pretreatment of 3T3 cells with phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate, which leads to the disappearance of protein kinase C activity, blocked the ability of bombesin to stimulate 80k. Bombesin also caused a rapid (1 min) inhibition of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (125I-EGF) binding to Swiss 3T3 cells. The inhibition was both concentration and temperature dependent and resulted from a marked decrease in the affinity of the EGF receptor for its ligand. Peptides structurally related to bombesin, including gastrin-releasing peptide, also stimulated 80k phosphorylation and inhibited 125I-EGF binding; both effects were selectively blocked by a novel bombesin antagonist. These results strongly suggest that these responses are mediated by specific high-affinity receptors that recognize the peptides of the bombesin family in Swiss 3T3 cells. While an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration does not mediate the bombesin inhibition of 125I-EGF binding, the activation of protein kinase C in intact Swiss 3T3 cells by peptides of the bombesin family may lead to rapid inhibition of the binding of 125I-EGF to its cellular receptor.


1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (6) ◽  
pp. C904-C911 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Selinfreund ◽  
P. H. Lin ◽  
J. L. Cooper ◽  
W. Wharton

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) or the functionally related N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalenesulfonamide caused a rapid decrease in binding of 125I-epidermal growth factor (EGF) that was due to a specific decrease in receptor affinity. The decrease in ligand binding was observed when cells were exposed to CPZ at either 4 degrees C or 37 degrees C but a rapid reversal of CPZs effects was observed only during a 37 degrees C incubation. In contrast to the decrease in 125I-EGF binding seen after short (30 min) accumulations at 37 degrees C, the presence of CPZ caused a large increase in the amount of cell-associated radioactivity after longer periods (over 1 h) of accumulation. Although the CPZ-induced effect was similar in extent to that observed after the addition of methylamine, the increased accumulation after CPZ was probably not due to a nonspecific ionic neutralization of the lysosomes. CPZ did not lower EGF binding in cultures chronically treated with a phorbol ester to reduce protein kinase C levels, although the CPZ-induced increases in accumulation were still observed in cells with reduced protein kinase C activity.


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