Differential effect of phorbol esters and interleukin-3 on protein kinase C
isoform content and kinase activity in the FDC-P1 cell line
DK Ways, W Qin, RS Riddle, TD Garris, TE Bennett, LS Steelman and JA McCubrey
Department of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine,
Greenville, NC 27858-4354.
FD/PMA is a subclone of the interleukin-3 (IL-3)-dependent, FDC-P1 cell
line, which proliferates in response to either 12-O-
tetradecanoylphorbol-13 acetate (PMA) or IL-3. While several endogenous
substrates were phosphorylated in response to protein kinase C (PKC)
activation in FDC-P1, phospholipid-dependent phosphorylation in the FD/PMA
grown in PMA was not observed. Basal, phosphatidylserine- independent, and
diolein-independent phosphorylation of cytosolic substrates with molecular
weights of 17, 52, 57, and 105 Kd were enhanced in FD/PMA cells grown in
PMA as compared with FDC-P1 cells cultured in IL-3. Phosphorylation of a
105-Kd substrate was enhanced in the particulate fraction of FD/PMA cells
maintained in PMA. The 17-Kd substrate in FD/PMA cells comigrated with a
substrate phosphorylated in a PKC-dependent manner in FDC-P1 cells.
Phosphorylation of the 52- and 57-Kd substrates, but not of the 17-Kd
substrate, was inhibited by H-7 and staurosporine. A portion of the
PMA-induced cytosolic kinase activity coeluted with PKC on diethyl
aminoethyl chromatography. While FD/PMA cells cultured in PMA contained
negligible PKC-dependent phosphorylation of endogenous substrates or
histone, alpha and epsilon PKC isoforms were detected by Western blot
analysis. PKC phosphotransferase activity was observed in FD/PMA cells
grown in PMA when peptides corresponding to residues 720 to 737 of
PKC-epsilon or residues 4 to 14 of myelin basic protein were used as
substrates. These data indicate that maintenance of FD/PMA cells in PMA
stimulates proliferation and markedly alters PKC substrate specificity.
Generation of at least two phospholipid-independent kinases occurs in
PMA-treated cells.
Volume 78,
Issue 10,
pp. 2633-2641,
11/15/1991
Copyright © 1991 by The American Society of Hematology