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Blood, 1 November 2003, Vol. 102, No. 9, pp. 3186-3195. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on July 10, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-02-0567.
HEMATOPOIESIS Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-3 induce cell cycle progression through the synthesis of c-Myc protein by internal ribosome entry sitemediated translation via phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway in human factordependent leukemic cellsFrom the Department of Hematology, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo.
To investigate the roles of c-myc during hematopoietic proliferation induced by growth factors, we used factor-dependent human leukemic cell lines (MO7e and F36P) in which proliferation, cell cycle progression, and c-Myc expression were strictly regulated by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-3 (IL-3). In these cell lines, both c-myc mRNA and c-Myc protein stability were not affected by GM-CSF and IL-3, suggesting a regulation of c-Myc protein at the translational level. However, rapamycin, an inhibitor of cap-dependent translation, did not block c-myc induction by GM-CSF and IL-3. Thus, we studied the cap-independent translation, the internal ribosome entry site (IRES), during c-Myc protein synthesis using dicistronic reporter gene plasmids and found that GM-CSF and IL-3 activated c-myc IRES to initiate translation. c-myc IRES activation, c-Myc protein expression, and cell cycle progression were all blocked by a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, LY294002
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