Cs. Levy et al., LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR INDUCES MITOGENESIS IN SWISS 3T3 CELLS ANDSELECTIVE ENHANCEMENT VIA A VARIETY OF SIGNALING EVENTS, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 236(3), 1997, pp. 814-818
Leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) stimulates cellular DNA synthesis in
confluent quiescent Swiss 3T3 cells. Insulin and prostaglandin E-1 (P
GE(1)), which fail tea stimulate DNA synthesis alone, potentiate this
effect. Prostaglandin F-2 alpha (PGF(2 alpha)), which is mitogenic in
these cells, enhances the effect of LIF on DNA synthesis. TGF beta(1)
increases the effect of PGF(2 alpha) but not that of LIF, R-59022, a d
iacylglycerol kinase inhibitor which increases protein kinase C (PKC)
activity, enhances only the PGF(2 alpha) response. 13-Tetradecanoyl-12
-phorbolacetate-mediated PKC depletion prevents the action of PGF(2 al
pha) but not that of LIF, nor the PGF(2 alpha) potentiation of LIF-sti
mulated DNA synthesis. 1-Oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol, a PKC and tyrosine k
inase (TK) activator which mimics some of the PGF(2 alpha), effects, e
nhances only LIF-induced DNA synthesis in cells possessing intact PKC
activity. These results suggest that stimulation of DNA synthesis by L
IF, as well as its enhancement by PGF(2 alpha), may occur via a signal
ling pathway independent of PKC activation. (C) 1997 Academic Press.