Discordant signal transduction and growth inhibition of small cell lung carcinomas induced by expression of GTPase-deficient G alpha(16)
Discordant signal transduction and growth inhibition of small cell lung carcinomas induced by expression of GTPase-deficient G alpha(16)
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.271.1.349
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发表时间:
1996-01-05
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Johnson, GL
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作者:
Heasley, LE;Zamarripa, J;Johnson, GL
Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) accounts for 20-25% of primary lung cancers and is rapidly growing, widely metastatic, and rarely curable, Autocrine stimulation of multiple G protein-coupled neuropeptide receptor systems contributes to the transformed growth of SCLC, The ability of neuropeptide receptors to stimulate phospholipase C and mobilize intracellular Ca2+ indicates that G(q) family members of heterotrimeric G proteins are a convergence point mediating autocrine signaling by multiple neuropeptides in SCLC, Expression of a GTPase-deficient, constitutive active form of an alpha(q) family member, alpha(16)Q212L, in SCLC markedly inhibited growth of the cells in soft agar and tumor formation in nude mice, SCLC lines expressing alpha(16)Q212L exhibited 2-4-fold elevated basal phospholipase C activity, but neuropeptide and hormone-regulated intracellular Ca2+ mobilization was nearly abolished, The data suggest that Ca2+ mobilization is an obligatory signal in neuropeptide-stimulated growth of SCLC, In addition, the proline-directed c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases/stress-activated protein kinases, which are members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family, were stimulated similar to-2-fold in parental SCLC in response to exogenous neuropeptides and muscarinic agonists and were constitutively activated to the same degree in alpha(16)Q212L-expressing SCLC, Thus, alpha(16)Q212L expression induced desensitization of neuropeptide stimulated Ca2+ signaling and persistent activation of the c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase pathway, We propose that the induction of discordant signaling by selective perturbation of receptor-regulated effector systems leads to the inhibition of SCLC cell growth.