Abstract
Using cultured airway smooth muscle cells, we showed previously that the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor uses the G-protein, Gi, to stimulate Grb-2-associated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activity. We also showed that this was an intermediate step in the activation of p42/p44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p42/p44 MAPK) by PDGF. We now present two lines of evidence that provide further support for this model. First, we report that PDGF stimulates the Gi-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of the Grb-2 adaptor protein, Gab1. This phosphorylation appears to be necessary for association of PI3K1a with the Gab1-Grb-2 complex. Second, PI3K appears to promote the subsequent association of dynamin II (which is involved in clathrin-mediated endocytic processing) with the complex. Furthermore, inhibitors of PI3K and clathrin-mediated endocytosis reduced the PDGF-dependent activation of p42/p44 MAPK, suggesting a role for PI3K in the endocytic signaling process leading to stimulation of p42/p44 MAPK. Together, these results begin to define a common signaling model for certain growth factor receptors (e.g., PDGF, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, and fibroblast growth factor) which use Gi to transmit signals to p42/p44 MAPK.
Footnotes
- Received December 30, 1999.
- Accepted May 8, 2000.
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Send reprint requests to: Dr. Nigel Pyne and Dr. Susan Pyne, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 27 Taylor St., Glasgow G3 0NR, UK. E-mail: n.j.pyne{at}strath.ac.uk andsusan.pyne{at}strath.ac.uk
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This study was supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. S.P. is a Wellcome Trust Senior Biomedical Research Fellow.
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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