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T1 - Bcr-Abl-mediated molecular mechanism for apoptotic suppression in multipotent haemopoietic cells: a role for PKCβII.
AU - Xenaki, Dia
AU - Pierce, Andrew
AU - Underhill-Day, Nick
AU - Whetton, Anthony D.
AU - Owen-Lynch, P. Jane
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - Bcr-Abl protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity is a feature of chronic myeloid leukaemia and confers a survival advantage on haemopoietic progenitor cells. We have expressed conditional mutant of the Bcr-Abl PTK in the FDCP-Mix A4 multipotent haematopoietic cell line in order to examine the molecular mechanisms whereby Bcr-Abl PTK leads to enhanced cell survival under conditions in which normal cells die. Activation of Bcr-Abl PTK does not phosphorylate or activate either ERK-1/2 or JAK-2/STAT-5b, suggesting that these signal transduction pathways are not involved in Abl PTK-mediated suppression of apoptosis in FDCP-Mix cells. However, protein kinase C (PKC) does have a role to play. Inhibition of PKC results in a reversal of Bcr-Abl PTK-mediated survival in the absence of growth factor and Bcr-Abl stimulates translocation of the PKCβII isoform to the nucleus. Furthermore, expression of a constitutively activated PKCβII in haemopoietic progenitor FDCP-Mix cells stimulates enhanced cell survival when IL-3 is withdrawn. However, expression of this constitutively activated PKC isoform does not suppress cytotoxic drug-induced apoptosis. Thus Bcr-Abl PTK has pleiotropic effects which can suppress cell death induced by a number of stimuli.
AB - Bcr-Abl protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity is a feature of chronic myeloid leukaemia and confers a survival advantage on haemopoietic progenitor cells. We have expressed conditional mutant of the Bcr-Abl PTK in the FDCP-Mix A4 multipotent haematopoietic cell line in order to examine the molecular mechanisms whereby Bcr-Abl PTK leads to enhanced cell survival under conditions in which normal cells die. Activation of Bcr-Abl PTK does not phosphorylate or activate either ERK-1/2 or JAK-2/STAT-5b, suggesting that these signal transduction pathways are not involved in Abl PTK-mediated suppression of apoptosis in FDCP-Mix cells. However, protein kinase C (PKC) does have a role to play. Inhibition of PKC results in a reversal of Bcr-Abl PTK-mediated survival in the absence of growth factor and Bcr-Abl stimulates translocation of the PKCβII isoform to the nucleus. Furthermore, expression of a constitutively activated PKCβII in haemopoietic progenitor FDCP-Mix cells stimulates enhanced cell survival when IL-3 is withdrawn. However, expression of this constitutively activated PKC isoform does not suppress cytotoxic drug-induced apoptosis. Thus Bcr-Abl PTK has pleiotropic effects which can suppress cell death induced by a number of stimuli.
KW - Bcr-Abl
KW - Cell survival
KW - Protein kinase CβII
KW - ERK
KW - STAT-5b
KW - Chronic myeloid leukaemia
U2 - 10.1016/S0898-6568(03)00101-3
DO - 10.1016/S0898-6568(03)00101-3
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 145
EP - 156
JO - Cellular Signalling
JF - Cellular Signalling
SN - 0898-6568
IS - 2
ER -