title: Protein kinase C activity during sphinganine potentiation of retinoic acid-induced differentiation in a human leukemia cell line (HL-60).
abstract: The differentiation of HL-60 promyelocytic cells toward mature granulocytic cells induced by retinoic acid (RA) was accompanied by a decrease in protein kinase C (PKC) activity. The enhancement of RA-induced differentiation and the potentiation of the decrease of PKC activity by sphinganine (SP) seemed to correlate with each other. Kinetically, PKC activity during RA-induced differentiation without SP decreased to its lowest (75% of the control) after 48h; about 50% of the reduction was observed at 24h. In the presence of SP, PKC activity decreased more rapidly to its lowest (60% of the control) within 24h of incubation of RA. SP, added 24h before or concomitantly with the addition of RA, could potentiate the RA-induced differentiation and the reduction of PKC activity. Our results indicate that the effect of SP and the role of PKC during RA-induced differentiation may be critical at the early stages of induction of differentiation (within 24h of RA exposure).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Chang Gung Medical College, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Hui
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Yung
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D004357:Drug Synergism; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism*; D013110:Sphingosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D014212:Tretinoin; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013110:Sphingosine; C005682:safingol