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  • Title: Activated Gq-alpha potentiates platelet-derived growth factor-stimulated mitogenesis in confluent cell cultures.
    Author: De Vivo M, Iyengar R.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1994 Aug 05; 269(31):19671-4. PubMed ID: 8051041.
    Abstract:
    We studied the effects of activation of the Gq-alpha signaling pathway on mitogenesis by expressing a mutant (Q209L), activated alpha-subunit of Gq (alpha q*) in NIH-3T3 cells. A clonal NIH-3T3 cell line expressing alpha q* in an inducible manner was isolated. Expression of alpha q* is induced with dexamethasone, allowing the use of non-induced cells as controls for the effects of alpha q* expression. We found that, by itself, expression of alpha q* did not increase either DNA synthesis or mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activity in serum-starved cells. Because alpha q* transforms cells grown in the presence of serum (De Vivo M., Chen, J., Codina, J., and Iyengar, R. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 18263-18266), we tested whether growth factor-stimulated signaling and mitogenesis were affected by expression of alpha q*. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulated thymidine incorporation modestly (50%) in contact-inhibited, confluent cell cultures. In cells expressing alpha q*, PDGF stimulated DNA synthesis up to 3-fold over basal. Concomitant with the potentiation of PDGF-stimulated DNA synthesis, expression of alpha q* potentiated PDGF-stimulated p44 MAP kinase activity. PDGF was much more effective in stimulating both DNA synthesis and p44 MAP kinase activity in subconfluent cell cultures and expression of alpha q* exerted little or no effect on PDGF-stimulated effects in subconfluent cells. These data show that cooperation between signaling pathways may occur in a cell state-specific fashion. Such cooperation in part may be responsible for the triggering of complex cellular responses such as cell transformation.
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