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Growth Hormone Stimulation of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway Is Cell Type Specific¹

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia (D.W.L., C.M.S.), Charlottesville, Virginia 22908; and the Endocrine Sciences Research Division, Department of Medicine, University of Manchester (P.E.C., A.J.W.), Manchester, United Kingdom M13 9PT

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Corinne M. Silva, Box 511, Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908. E-mail: cms3e{at}virginia.edu

The GH receptor is a member of the cytokine receptor superfamily. Studies in the 3T3-F442A mouse preadipocyte have shown that GH activates the Janus kinase (JAK2), the signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT1, -3, and -5), and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase. Our previous studies in the human IM-9 lymphocyte have shown that GH activates JAK2 and only STAT5 (not STAT1 or -3). In the studies presented here, we have investigated activation of the MAP kinase (MAPK) pathway in the IM-9 lymphocyte. Western blotting with antiphosphotyrosine-, anti-MAPK-, and anti-phospho-MAPK-specific antibodies as well in vitro kinase assays using a synthetic peptide substrate demonstrate that although GH (200 ng/ml) activates MAPK in 3T3-F442A cells (at 5 and 10 min of treatment), it does not activate MAPK in IM-9 lymphocytes at time points ranging from 5–60 min. Nevertheless, the phorbol ester phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (50 ng/ml) does activate MAPK in the IM-9 cell, and immunoprecipitation with specific antibodies indicates that this activation occurs through c-Raf-1. Although the 52- and 66-kDa forms of the adapter protein Shc are tyrosine phosphorylated in response to GH treatment in 3T3-F442A cells, we demonstrate that the predominant forms in IM-9 cells are the 52- and 46-kDa forms, and neither is tyrosine phosphorylated in response to GH. These studies further elucidate the differential signaling by GH in two cell types.

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