title: Insulin-like growth factor induces phosphorylation of immunoreactive insulin receptor substrate and its association with phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase in human thymocytes.
abstract: Insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) is the principle cellular substrate for insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptor signaling. After phosphorylation of tyrosine residues within the YMXM or YXXM motifs, IRS-1 associates with phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K). This signaling pathway and the presence of an IRS-1-like molecule have been demonstrated in IRS-1-transfected and in nontransfected hematopoietic cell lines, respectively. IGF-I has been implicated in lymphocyte development and function, and recently, we showed that functional type-I IGF receptors are present on human thymocytes and peripheral T cells. In this study, we addressed IGF-I signal transduction in nontransformed, freshly isolated, human thymocytes, as well as in blood T cells. Using Western blot analysis, we found that IGF-I induced phosphorylation of a 160-180-kD protein (pp170) in human thymocytes and that phosphorylated pp170 becomes associated with PI3K and is recognized by anti-IRS-1. In blood T cells, this immunoreactive IRS-1 (irIRS-1) is less abundantly expressed than in thymocytes, as assessed with immunoblotting. As a consequence, phosphorylated pp170 was not or hardly detectable after stimulation with IGF-I, and irIRS-1 was not detected in PI3K immunoprecipitates from lysates of IGF-I-stimulated T cells. However, IGF-I induced the tyrosine phosphorylation of other cellular proteins, indicating that differential expression of irIRS-1 contributes to a distinct signaling pathway in T cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, University Hospital for Children and Youth Het Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kooijman
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Lauf
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Kappers
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Rijkers
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / Q000378:metabolism*; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D017526:Receptor, IGF Type 1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000166:cytology*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C526292:IRS1 protein, human; D055504:Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D014443:Tyrosine; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); D017526:Receptor, IGF Type 1