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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 145, Issue 8 2571-2580, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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Analysis of the primary signals required for activation of the mitogenic pathway in murine thymocytes from protein phosphorylation patterns

R Hesketh, TA Moore, SR Pennington, GA Smith and JC Metcalfe
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K.

It has been proposed that phorbol esters and the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 are effective comitogens for some species of lymphocytes because together they mimic the normal secondary signals for cell activation by mitogens that cause phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdInsP2) breakdown (e.g., anti-TCR and anti-Thy-1 antibodies and Con A). To test whether activation of protein kinase C and an increase in [Ca2+]i account for the activation of the mitogenic pathway in murine thymocytes by the mitogens that cause PtdInsP2 breakdown, the two- dimensional phosphorylation patterns generated by the three classes of mitogens (protein kinase C activator, Ca2+ ionophore, and activator of PtdInsP2 breakdown) and by activators of cAMP-dependent kinases have been compared. From the phosphorylation patterns, by which each mitogen could be distinguished reproducibly, it was concluded that: 1) The phosphorylation patterns generated by the mitogens that activate PtdInsP2 breakdown are only slightly affected by the removal of extracellular Ca2+ under conditions that abolish the normal rise in [Ca2+]i and do not therefore depend on the activation of Ca2(+)- dependent protein kinases. In contrast, the phosphorylation pattern generated by A23187 is totally dependent on extracellular Ca2+. 2) Neither A23187 nor the mitogens that activate PtdInsP2 breakdown nor activators of cAMP-dependent kinases caused significant activation of protein kinase C assayed by phosphorylation of the diagnostic proteins 80b and 78a. Consistent with this conclusion, only the phorbol esters or oleoyl acyl glycerol caused translocation of protein kinase C activity from the cytosolic to the membrane fraction. 3) Neither A23187 nor the mitogens that cause PtdInsP2 breakdown activated cAMP-dependent kinases. Taken together the data imply that the mitogens that cause PtdInsP2 breakdown must generate an additional, independent primary mitogenic signal. It is suggested that this signal may be the activation of tyrosine kinases (e.g., p56lck) via the TCR and working hypotheses for effective combinations of primary mitogenic signals that will activate DNA synthesis are developed.


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