Dedifferentiation of adenocarcinomas by activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
Dedifferentiation of adenocarcinomas by activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.96.9.4874
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发表时间:
1999-04-27
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Fukui, Y
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作者:
Kobayashi, M;Nagata, S;Fukui, Y
Signet ring cell carcinoma is a malignant type of poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas in stomach, which is characterized by the occasional presence of signet ring like cancer cells. We found that expression of constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) in well differentiated adenocarcinoma cell lines induced the loss of cell-cell contact and some of the cells changed their shapes to signet ring cell-like, characterized by appearance of mucus droplets in the cytoplasm with well developed endplasmic reticulum and Golgi complexes. The active PI 3-kinase-expressing cells formed poorly differentiated tumors in nude mice? which were clearly different from those of the original cell lines. The PI 3-kinase activities detected in antiphosphotyrosine immunoprecipitates were higher in several signet ring cell carcinoma-derived cell lines than in other adenocarcinoma cell lines. In addition, PI 3-kinase was found to be associated with a 200-kDa protein phosphorylated in tyrosine in 4 of 6 signet ring cells but not in other cell lines, suggesting that PI 3-kinase is possibly activated in these cells by binding to the 200-kDa protein. The 200-kDa protein-PI 3-kinase complex was exclusively fractionated in the membrane fractions. The specific activity of the PI 3-kinase immunoprecipitated with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody was approximate to 3-fold higher than that with anti-PI 3-kinase antibody. These results suggest that PI 3-kinase in signet ring cell carcinoma is recruited to the membrane and activated by the binding to the 200-kDa protein.