Endocrinology, Vol 137, 3832-3841, Copyright © 1996 by Endocrine Society

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Involvement of Raf-1 kinase and protein kinase C zeta in insulin-like growth factor I-induced brown adipocyte mitogenic signaling cascades: inhibition by cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate

AM Valverde, T Teruel, M Lorenzo and M Benito
Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

In the present study we have examined the signaling cascades involved in insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I)-induced mitogenesis in fetal rat brown adipocyte primary cultures, a model that constitutively expresses a high number of IGF-I receptors, where IGF-I is a complete mitogen at physiological concentrations. IGF-I rapidly stimulated beta- chain IGF-I receptor autophosphorylation, which peaked at a physiological/mitogenic concentration (1.4 nM) and also stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1). Tyrosine-phosphorylated IRS-1 bound and subsequently activated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase by 3.5-fold, whereas the tyrosine- phosphorylated IGF-I receptor was not directly associated with the p85 subunit of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. Moreover, mitogenic concentrations of IGF-I enhanced glucose transport by 2.5-fold. In addition, tyrosine phosphorylation of the 46- and 52-kDa SHC proteins was high in the basal state and doubled after IGF-I treatment, whereas IGF-I enhanced by 4-fold tyrosine phosphorylation of the 66-kDa SHC band. Furthermore, a 2-fold increase in the Ras. GTP active form was induced upon IGF-I stimulation. Downstream from Ras, IGF-I increased both Raf kinase and protein kinase C (PKC) zeta activities by 3.5-fold. (Bu)2cAMP, an inhibitor of IGF-I-induced mitogenesis in fetal brown adipocyte primary cultures, did not block the very early steps of the IGF-I-induced mitogenic cascade, such as IGF-I receptor autophosphorylation, IRS-1 or SHC tyrosine phosphorylation, and Ras activation to its GTP active form. However, (Bu)2cAMP disrupted IGF-I- Raf and IGF-I-PKC zeta signaling pathways by preventing IGF-I-induced Raf-1 kinase and PKC zeta enzymatic activities, respectively. Our results show the first characterization in situ of an IGF-I mitogenic signaling cascade that downstream Ras diverges to the nucleus through two different serine/threonine kinases (Raf-1 kinase and PKC zeta) in mammalian fetal primary cells under physiological conditions. Both kinases represent a point of regulation primarily described for IGF-I- induced, cAMP-inhibited mitogenic pathways.

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