title: Sustained tyrosine phosphorylation of p140trkA in PC12h-R cells responding rapidly to NGF.
abstract: The PC12h cell, a subclone of PC12 cells, has considerable activities of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and shows an NGF-induced increase in both enzyme activities. The TH activity and its inducibility by NGF in PC12h cells were stably maintained in the passage of > 200 generations whereas the ChAT activity was not. We isolated a new cell line, PC12h-R (originally clone 8), from a long-term culture of PC12h cells. PC12h-R cells still showed the considerable TH activity, but not the ChAT activity, and maintained the inducibility of TH activity by NGF. Thus, the responses of PC12h-R cells to NGF were similar to those of chromaffin cells and sympathetic neurons. PC12h-R cells were found to extend neurites and differentiate into sympathetic neuron-like cells in response to NGF much more rapidly than PC12h cells. In addition, PC12h-R cells showed sustained NGF-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of p140trkA and several cellular proteins, including 42-, 44- and 54-kDa proteins, in comparison with PC12h cells. We suggest that the NGF-induced sustained tyrosine phosphorylation signal in PC12h-R cells may be correlated closely with their rapid NGF-induced differentiation into neuron-like cells.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Protein Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeuchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsukui
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aimoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hatanaka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002795:Choline O-Acetyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D002999:Clone Cells; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D015151:Immunoblotting; D007700:Kinetics; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016501:Neurites / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D016716:PC12 Cells; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D020917:Receptor, trkA; D017475:Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D017475:Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D014443:Tyrosine; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase; D002795:Choline O-Acetyltransferase; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D020917:Receptor, trkA