title: Platelet-derived growth factor isoforms AA, AB, and BB differentially activate poly r(I):r(C)-induced genes in human fibroblast FS4 cells.
abstract: Polyribocytidylic-polyriboinosinic acid [poly r(I):r(C)]-inducible genes were isolated by a differential screening procedure from a human fibroblast cell (FS-4) cDNA bank. Among yet unidentified genes (gene 274), one codes for a protein with multiple finger motifs and has previously been detected in endothelial cells after tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) treatment (A20; Opipari et al., 1990), the second one codes for a variant of the I kappa B family (Haskill et al., 1991), and a third one for the Ca2+ ATPase (isoform 1). Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) isoforms (AA, AB, and BB) stimulated the expression of these immediate-early genes. But the extent of the respective induction correlated neither with the number of the two receptors alpha or beta nor with the level of PDGF-stimulated receptor autophosphorylation on tyrosine. Although alpha-receptors were less abundant than beta-receptors (12,500 binding sites were estimated for PDGF-AA, KD 0.03 nM; 20,000 for PDGF-AB, KD 0.03 nM; 35,000 for PDGF-BB KD 0.16 nM) and tyrosine phosphorylation induced by PDGF-AA was significantly less than that evoked by PDGF-BB, some of the investigated genes were more strongly induced by PDGF-AA. We discuss how the differences in the biological potency of the PDGF isoforms may reside in different functions of the two receptors by activation of alternative signaling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung Braunschweig, Department of Genetics, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Buwitt
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tatje
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoppe
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D005347:Fibroblasts; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D016899:Interferon-beta / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D011070:Poly I-C / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor; D016899:Interferon-beta; D011070:Poly I-C