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Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2006, p. 4934-4948, Vol. 26, No. 13
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.02477-05
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Platelet-Derived Growth Factor BB Induces Nuclear Export and Proteasomal Degradation of CREB via Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Akt Signaling in Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells

Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center,¹ Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research,² Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,³ Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262⁴

Received 28 December 2005/ Returned for modification 1 February 2006/ Accepted 14 April 2006

Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) content is diminished in smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in remodeled pulmonary arteries from animals with pulmonary hypertension and in the SMC layers of atherogenic systemic arteries and cardiomyocytes from hypertensive individuals. Loss of CREB can be induced in cultured SMCs by chronic exposure to hypoxia or platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB). Here we investigated the signaling pathways and mechanisms by which PDGF elicits depletion of SMC CREB. Chronic PDGF treatment increased CREB ubiquitination in SMCs, while treatment of SMCs with the proteasome inhibitor lactacystin prevented decreases in CREB content. The nuclear export inhibitor leptomycin B also prevented depletion of SMC CREB alone or in combination with lactacystin. Subsequent studies showed that PDGF activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase, Jun N-terminal protein kinase, and phosphatidylinositol 3 (PI3)-kinase pathways in SMCs. Inhibition of these pathways blocked SMC proliferation in response to PDGF, but only inhibition of PI3-kinase or its effector, Akt, blocked PDGF-induced CREB loss. Finally, chimeric proteins containing enhanced cyan fluorescent protein linked to wild-type CREB or CREB molecules with mutations in several recognized phosphorylation sites were introduced into SMCs. PDGF treatment reduced the levels of each of these chimeric proteins except for one containing mutations in adjacent serine residues (serines 103 and 107), suggesting that CREB loss was dependent on CREB phosphorylation at these sites. We conclude that PDGF stimulates nuclear export and proteasomal degradation of CREB in SMCs via PI3-kinase/Akt signaling. These results indicate that in addition to direct phosphorylation, proteolysis and intracellular localization are key mechanisms regulating CREB content and activity in SMCs.

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