Rapid mitogen-activated protein kinase activation by transforming growth factor α in wounded rat intestinal epithelial cells
1998
Abstract Background & Aims: To define signaling events initiating healing after intestinal epithelial injury, activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways was assessed after wounding using an in vitro model. Methods: Proteins isolated from wounded monolayers of nontransformed intestinal epithelial cells (IEC-6) were analyzed for tyrosine phosphorylation and MAPK expression by Western blot. Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1, ERK2, and Raf-1 activities were assessed by immune complex kinase assays. Results: Tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins including ERK1 was substantially increased 5 minutes after injury. Another MAPK, c-Jun-N-terminal protein kinase (JNK), was also activated after wounding. Conditioned medium from wounded but not intact IEC-6 monolayers resulted in increased activity of ERK1, ERK2, and Raf-1 kinase. Wound-conditioned medium stimulated proliferation of subconfluent IEC-6 cells compared with conditioned medium from intact IEC-6 cultures and contained higher amounts of transforming growth factor (TGF)-α than supernatants of confluent IEC-6 cultures. Activation of ERK1 and ERK2 was partially inhibited by neutralizing anti–TGF-α. Conclusions: Wounding of intestinal epithelial cells results in activation of Raf-1, ERK1, ERK2, and JNK1 MAPKs and subsequent cell proliferation in vitro. Activation of ERK1 and ERK2 is mediated in part by TGF-α. GASTROENTEROLOGY 1998;114:697-705
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- Protein kinase A
- Mitogen-activated protein kinase
- Epidermal growth factor
- Growth factor
- Tyrosine phosphorylation
- MAPK/ERK pathway
- Transforming growth factor
- Kinase
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- Biochemistry
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3
- Cell biology
- General surgery
- intestinal mucosa
- Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase
- TGF alpha
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