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  • Title: Protein kinase C down-regulation enhances cAMP-mediated induction of urokinase-type plasminogen activator mRNA in LLC-PK1 cells.
    Author: Ziegler A, Knesel J, Fabbro D, Nagamine Y.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1991 Nov 05; 266(31):21067-74. PubMed ID: 1718970.
    Abstract:
    Expression of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) gene in LLC-PK1 cells can be induced by signals mediated by both cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (PKC). We have utilized the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) to down-regulate PKC, in order to test for an effect on the PKA-mediated induction of the uPA gene expression. Incubation of cells for 24 h with 100 ng/ml TPA caused a marked decrease of PKC protein, both in cytosolic and particulate fractions, and an 85% reduction of total PKC activity. After down-regulation of PKC, uPA mRNA accumulation induced by 8-Br-cAMP was 5-10-fold higher than in control cells. Both uPA mRNA stability and uPA gene transcription rates induced by 8-Br-cAMP were increased by PKC down-regulation (6- and 1.8-fold, respectively). Although total PKA activity was reduced by 20% in extracts from PKC-depleted cells, activation of PKA by 8-Br-cAMP was 2.5-fold higher than in control cells. This enhanced activation of PKA in PKC-depleted cells also occurred in response to other cAMP derivatives and to cAMP induced endogenously by the activation of adenylate cyclase with forskolin, but was not due to down-regulation-associated changes in the rate of cAMP synthesis. Our results demonstrate that in LLC-PK1 cells, down-regulation of PKC results in an enhanced induction of uPA gene expression by cAMP-mediated signals without alterations in adenylate cyclase activity, suggesting a mechanism distal to adenylate cyclase.
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