title: Hepatocyte growth factor induced human trophoblast motility involves phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and inducible nitric oxide synthase.
abstract: Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) increases human trophoblast motility and invasion, an effect which is abrogated when inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is inhibited. In this study we have investigated the pathways involved in the regulation of trophoblast motility. Both basal and HGF-stimulated motility of the extravillous trophoblast cell line, SGHPL-4, were inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3-kinase) inhibitor, LY294002. HGF-stimulated iNOS expression was also inhibited by LY294002 and direct activation of PI3-kinase, using the peptide 740Y-P, led to an increase in iNOS expression and cell motility. Pretreatment with rapamycin, which acts at a point distal to PI3-kinase activation, also inhibited basal and HGF-stimulated motility. Inhibition of the p42/p44 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway but not the p38 MAPK pathway had significant inhibitory effects on HGF-stimulated but not basal trophoblast motility. Inhibition of p42/p44 MAPK also inhibited HGF-induced iNOS expression. This data demonstrate that the PI3-kinase signaling pathway is involved in basal trophoblast motility and that both MAPK and PI3-kinase signaling pathways are important in HGF-stimulated motility and iNOS expression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 ORE, United Kingdom. jcartwright@sghms.ac.uk
authors.forename: Judith E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Cartwright
authors.forename: Wai Kwan
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Tse
authors.forename: Guy StJ
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Whitley
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects*; D002867:Chromones / Q000494:pharmacology; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D009025:Morpholines / Q000494:pharmacology; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000378:metabolism*; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000081082:Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors; D021122:Protein Subunits; D020123:Sirolimus / Q000494:pharmacology; D014327:Trophoblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002867:Chromones; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D009025:Morpholines; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D010455:Peptides; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D000081082:Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors; D021122:Protein Subunits; D020123:Sirolimus; C085911:2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; C496319:NOS2 protein, human