Epidermal growth factor stimulation of stromelysin mRNA in rat fibroblasts requires induction of proto-oncogenes c-fos and c-jun and activation of protein kinase C.
AUTOR(ES)
McDonnell, S E
RESUMO
Stromelysin (transin) is a secreted metalloprotease that is transcriptionally induced by a variety of growth factors and oncogenes. We examined the necessity of specific secondary (protein kinase C) and tertiary (c-fos and c-jun protein products) messengers in the transactivation of stromelysin gene expression by epidermal growth factor (EGF). Rat-1 fibroblasts exposed to antisense c-fos DNA or RNA demonstrated that c-fos expression was necessary for complete EGF induction of stromelysin expression. Similar results demonstrating the necessity of c-jun protein in the EGF induction of stromelysin were obtained. We also demonstrated that protein kinase C activation is required for the EGF induction of stromelysin, since phorbol ester desensitization of C kinase proteins abolished the ability of EGF to induce stromelysin mRNA, protein, and promoter activity. In reconstitution experiments, neither c-fos, c-jun, nor C kinase activation alone induced significant stromelysin expression. Overexpression of c-fos and c-jun was able to induce stromelysin to a level similar to that of the growth factor, and stimulation of protein kinase C activity augmented this induction. The data suggest that the EGF induction of stromelysin in rat fibroblasts procedes through a pathway involving c-fos, c-jun, and protein kinase C.
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