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Title: | Calmodulin prevents activation of Ras by PKC in 3T3 fibroblasts |
Author: | Villalonga, Priam López Alcalá, Cristina Chiloeches, Antonio Gil i Santano, Joan Marais, Richard Bachs Valldeneu, Oriol Agell i Jané, Neus |
Keywords: | Calmodulina Farmacologia Metabolisme Proteïnes quinases Calmodulin Pharmacology Metabolism Protein kinases |
Issue Date: | 4-Oct-2002 |
Publisher: | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Abstract: | We have shown previously (Villalonga, P., López- Alcalá, C., Bosch, M., Chiloeches, A., Rocamora, N., Gil, J., Marais, R., Marshall, C. J., Bachs, O., and Agell, N. (2001) Mol. Cell. Biol. 21, 7345-7354) that calmodulin negatively regulates Ras activation in fibroblasts. Hence, anti-calmodulin drugs (such as W13, trifluoroperazine, or W7) are able to induce Ras/ERK pathway activation under low levels of growth factors. We show here that cell treatment with protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors abolishes W13-induced activation of Ras, Raf-1, and ERK. Consequently, PKC activity is essential for achieving the synergism between calmodulin inhibition and growth factors to activate Ras. Furthermore, whereas the activation of PKC by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) does not induce Ras activation in 3T3 cells, activation is observed if calmodulin is simultaneously inhibited. This indicates that calmodulin is preventing Ras activation by PKC. Treatment of cells with epidermal growth factor receptor or platelet-derived growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors does not abrogate the activation of Ras by calmodulin inhibition. This implies that epidermal growth factor receptor and platelet-derived growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase activities are dispensable for the activation of Ras by TPA plus W13, and, therefore, Ras activation is not a consequence of the transactivation of those receptors by the combination of the anti-calmodulin drug plus TPA. Furthermore, K-Ras, the isoform previously shown to bind to calmodulin, is the only one activated by TPA when calmodulin is inhibited. These data suggest that direct interaction between K-Ras and calmodulin may account for the inability of PKC to activate Ras in 3T3 fibroblasts. In vitro experiments showed that the phosphorylation of K-Ras by PKC was inhibited by calmodulin, suggesting that calmodulin-dependent modulation of K-Ras phosphorylation by PKC could be the mechanism underlying K-Ras activation in fibroblasts treated with TPA plus W13. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M202245200 |
It is part of: | Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002, vol. 277, num. 40, p. 37927-37935 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/176995 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M202245200 |
ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (IDIBAPS: Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer) Articles publicats en revistes (Ciències Fisiològiques) Articles publicats en revistes (Biomedicina) |
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