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Mol. Cell. Biol., 10 1997, 5784-5790, Vol 17, No. 10
SK Logan, M Falasca, P Hu and J Schlessinger
The signaling events which mediate activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase
(JNK) are not yet well characterized. To broaden our understanding of
upstream mediators which link extracellular signals to the JNK pathway, we
investigated the role of phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase in epidermal
growth factor (EGF)-mediated JNK activation. In this report we demonstrate
that a dominant negative form of PI 3-kinase as well as the inhibitor
wortmannin blocks EGF-induced JNK activation dramatically. However,
wortmannin does not have an effect on JNK activation induced by UV
irradiation or osmotic shock. In addition, a membrane-targeted,
constitutively active PI 3-kinase (p110beta) was shown to produce in vivo
products and to activate JNK, while a kinase- mutated form of this protein
showed no activation. On the basis of these experiments, we propose that PI
3-kinase activity plays a role in EGF-induced JNK activation in these
cells.
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase mediates epidermal growth factor-induced activation of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling pathway
Department of Pharmacology, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016, USA.
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