title: Effect of epidermal growth factor on sodium-dependent L-alanine transport in LLC-PK1 cells.
abstract: We evaluated the role of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the regulation of L-alanine transport in LLC-PK1 renal epithelia. After 2 h of incubation, EGF had no significant effect on L-alanine uptake by LLC-PK1 cells. However, prolonged (16 h) incubation with 2 and 20 ng/ml of EGF resulted in significant increases in sodium-dependent L-alanine uptake as compared with controls. Treatment with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA; 20 ng/ ml) caused a marked increase in sodium-dependent L-alanine uptake after both 2 and 16 h of incubation, and the treatment with TPA (20 ng/ml) EGF (20 ng/ml) for 16 h resulted in significant acceleration of the TPA-stimulated increase in L-alanine uptake by LLC-PK1 cells. Coincubation with H-7 (20 microM) inhibited both EGF- and TPA-stimulated increases in L-alanine uptake, and genistein (20 microg/ml) blocked the stimulatory effect of EGF in L-alanine transport to the control level. Furthermore, coincubation with cycloheximide (20 microg/ml) for 16 h inhibited both EGF- and TPA-stimulated increases in L-alanine transport to a great extent. The sodium- independent L-alanine uptake was not affected by treatment with either EGF or TPA. These results suggest that the activation of protein kinase C through tyrosine kinase activation plays a role in the EGF effect of stimulating L-alanine transport in LLC-PK1 cells and that the effect is mainly due to increased protein de novo synthesis which occurs after protein kinase C activation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. mnishida@ped.kpu-m.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawakatsu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishiwari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sawada
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000187:drug effects; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D018374:LLC-PK1 Cells; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D012964:Sodium / Q000502:physiology*; D013552:Swine; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D012964:Sodium; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D000409:Alanine