title: Oxytocin receptor elicits different EGFR/MAPK activation patterns depending on its localization in caveolin-1 enriched domains.
abstract: We have recently shown that oxytocin inhibits cell proliferation when the vast majority of oxytocin receptors are excluded from caveolin-1-enriched microdomains, and that, on the contrary, it has a mitogenic effect when the receptors are targeted to these plasma membrane domains. In this study, we investigated whether the receptors located inside and outside caveolar microdomains initiate different signalling pathways and how this may lead to opposite effects on cell proliferation. Our data indicate that, depending on their localization, oxytocin receptors transactivate EGFR and activate ERK1/2 using different signalling intermediates. The final outcome is a different temporal pattern of EGFR and ERK1/2 phosphorylation, which is more persistent when the receptors are located outside caveolar microdomains and inhibit cell growth, and very transient when they are located in caveolar microdomains and stimulate cell growth. Finally, only the activation of receptors located outside caveolar microdomains correlates with the activation of the cell cycle inhibitor p21(WAF1/CIP1), thus suggesting that the antiproliferative OTR effects may, in this case, be achieved by a sustained activation of EGFR and MAPK leading to the induction of this cell cycle regulator.
authors.affiliation: CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Section, Via Vanvitelli 32, 20129 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rimoldi
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reversi
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Taverna
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.forename: Maura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Francolini
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cassoni
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parenti
authors.forename: Bice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chini
mesh_terms: D021941:Caveolae / Q000378:metabolism; D051242:Caveolin 1; D051243:Caveolin 2; D022461:Caveolins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D050759:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21; D016213:Cyclins / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000378:metabolism*; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D021962:Membrane Microdomains / Q000378:metabolism*; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D018045:Receptors, Oxytocin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C495540:CAV1 protein, human; C493956:CDKN1A protein, human; D051242:Caveolin 1; D051243:Caveolin 2; D022461:Caveolins; D050759:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21; D016213:Cyclins; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D008164:Luminescent Proteins; D018045:Receptors, Oxytocin; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D014443:Tyrosine; D066246:ErbB Receptors; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases