title: PI3-kinase in concert with Src promotes the S-phase entry of oestradiol-stimulated MCF-7 cells.
abstract: The p85-associated phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase/Akt pathway mediates the oestradiol-induced S-phase entry and cyclin D1 promoter activity in MCF-7 cells. Experiments with Src, p85alpha and Akt dominant-negative forms indicate that in oestradiol-treated cells these signalling effectors target the cyclin D1 promoter. Oestradiol acutely increases PI3-kinase and Akt activities in MCF-7 cells. In NIH 3T3 cells expressing ERalpha, a dominant-negative p85 suppresses hormone stimulation of Akt. The Src inhibitor, PP1, prevents hormone stimulation of Akt and PI3-kinase activities in MCF-7 cells. In turn, stimulation of Src activity is abolished in ERalpha-expressing NIH 3T3 fibroblasts by co-transfection of the dominant-negative p85alpha and in MCF-7 cells by the PI3-kinase inhibitor, LY294002. These findings indicate a novel reciprocal cross-talk between PI3-kinase and Src. Hormone stimulation of MCF-7 cells rapidly triggers association of ERalpha with Src and p85. In vitro these proteins are assembled in a ternary complex with a stronger association than that of the binary complexes composed by the same partners. The ternary complex probably favours hormone activation of Src- and PI3-kinase-dependent pathways, which converge on cell cycle progression.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Patologia Generale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, II Università di Napoli, Via L. De Crecchio, 7, 80138 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Castoria
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Migliaccio
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bilancio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Domenico
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Falco
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lombardi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fiorentino
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Varricchio
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Barone
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Auricchio
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D019938:Cyclin D1 / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D004958:Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D047628:Estrogen Receptor alpha; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D021122:Protein Subunits; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D016196:S Phase / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D019061:src-Family Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D019938:Cyclin D1; D004958:Estradiol; D047628:Estrogen Receptor alpha; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D021122:Protein Subunits; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen; D019061:src-Family Kinases; C494918:AKT1 protein, human