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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is produced in the ovary and influences proliferation of the malignant ovarian surface epithelium (OSE); yet its role in malignancy or in regulating the normal surface epithelium is unclear. In human OSE cells derived from primary cultures of normal tissue transfected with SV40 large T antigen (IOSE cells), EGF promoted survival but not proliferation. This survival effect was reversed by acute treatment with the phorbol ester, 12-0-tetradecanoyl-13-phorbol acetate (TPA) which alone markedly inhibited IOSE proliferation. We tested whether the activities of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (ERK1/2 and JNK1) varied in response to EGF, TPA, or combinations of these agonists and if the same treatments altered patterns of immediate early gene expression. Alone, EGF activated ERK1/2, increased and sustained levels of c-jun mRNA, but had almost no effect on JNK1 activation. Conversely, PKC activation resulted in a rapid, but transient induction of c-fos RNA and of both kinases, JNK1 and ERK2. When combined, EGF and TPA further enhanced the phosphorylation of both enzymes despite inhibiting survival. Though JNKs and ERKs are thought to transduce opposing cellular responses, in IOSE cells, robust costimulation of the JNK and ERK pathways may redirect the survival message.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0014-4827
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
246
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
471-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Genes, Immediate-Early, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate, pubmed-meshheading:9925763-Transforming Growth Factor alpha
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Regulation of proliferation and apoptosis by epidermal growth factor and protein kinase C in human ovarian surface epithelial cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't