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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2001, p. 3325-3335, Vol. 21, No. 10
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.10.3325-3335.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Transcriptional Repression by Rb-E2F and Regulation of Anchorage-Independent Survival

Jennifer T. Yu, Rosalinda G. Foster, and Douglas C. Dean*

Division of Molecular Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Received 19 December 2000/Returned for modification 1 February 2001/Accepted 14 February 2001

Mutations that lead to anchorage-independent survival are a hallmark of tumor cells. Adhesion of integrin receptors to extracellular matrix activates a survival signaling pathway in epithelial cells where Akt phosphorylates and blocks the activity of proapoptotic proteins such as the BCL2 family member Bad, the forkhead transcription factor FKHRL-1, and caspase 9. Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is a well-established epithelial cell survival factor that also triggers activation of Akt and can maintain Akt activity after cells lose matrix contact. It is not until IGF-1 expression diminishes (~16 h after loss of matrix contact) that epithelial cells deprived of matrix contact undergo apoptosis. This suggests that IGF-1 expression is linked to cell adhesion and that it is the loss of IGF-1 which dictates the onset of apoptosis after cells lose matrix contact. Here, we examine the linkage between cell adhesion and IGF-1 expression. While IGF-1 is able to maintain Akt activity and phosphorylation of proapoptotic proteins in cells that have lost matrix contact, Akt is not able to phosphorylate and inactivate another of its substrates, glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3beta ), under these conditions. The reason for this appears to be a rapid translocation of active Akt away from GSK-3beta when cells lose matrix contact. One target of GSK-3beta is cyclin D, which is turned over in response to this phosphorylation. Therefore, cyclin D is rapidly lost when cells are deprived of matrix contact, leading to a loss of cyclin-dependent kinase 4 activity and accumulation of hypophosphorylated, active Rb. This facilitates assembly of a repressor complex containing histone deacetylase (HDAC), Rb, and E2F that blocks transcription of the gene for IGF-1, leading to loss of Akt activity, accumulation of active proapoptotic proteins, and apoptosis. This feedback loop containing GSK-3beta , cyclin D, HDAC-Rb-E2F, and IGF-1 then determines how long Akt will remain active after cells lose matrix contact, and thus it serves to regulate the onset of apoptosis in such cells.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Campus Box 8069, Division of Molecular Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110. Phone: (314) 362-8989. Fax: (314) 747-2797. E-mail: ddean{at}im.wustl.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2001, p. 3325-3335, Vol. 21, No. 10
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.10.3325-3335.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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