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M Nishimura, K Kaku, Y Azuno, K Okafuji, Y Inoue and T Kaneko
Third Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of
Yamaguchi, Japan.
Phosphoinositol turnover, diacylglycerol generation, protein kinase C
(PK-C) activity, and intracellular cyclic nucleotides were studied in an
established human leukemia cell line, HL-60, in response to one of the
hematopoietic cytokines, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
(GM-CSF). Continuous exposure of HL-60 cells to GM-CSF induced the cell
differentiation that was evaluated by the nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT)
reducing activity. GM-CSF also exhibited a proliferative effect on HL-60
cells. GM-CSF at 1 nmol/L, an optimal concentration for cell growth and
cell differentiation, induced significant changes in the intracellular
inositoltriphosphate (IP3). Diacylglycerol generation was also stimulated
by GM-CSF treatment. GM- CSF increased the membrane PK-C activity by
10-fold of the control, whereas no measurable change in cyclic nucleotides
was observed. These data indicated that phosphoinositol turnover and the
activation of PK-C were included in the GM-CSF signal transducing pathway
in HL-60 cell. Phosphoinositol response leading to PK-C activation may act
as a trigger signal of cell differentiation by GM-CSF.
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