title: Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B regulates TGF beta 1-induced Smad2 activation through PI3 kinase-dependent pathway.
abstract: Insulin is known to modulate transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta) signaling. In this report, by using the IN Cell Analyzer 1000, the fluorescence cell imaging instrument, we demonstrated that protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) could regulate TGFbeta1-induced Smad2 activation in a PI3 kinase-dependent manner. By using the CHO cells stably expressing EGFP-Smad2, we showed that TGFbeta1 effectively stimulated Smad2 nuclear translocation in CHO cells. When pretreated with insulin, TGFbeta1-induced Smad2 nuclear entry was dramatically decreased. Furthermore, both the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 and the dominant negative AKT (DN-AKT) abolished the inhibitory effects of insulin, demonstrating that the inhibition of Smad2 activation by insulin was PI3K/AKT dependent. Since PTP1B negatively modulates insulin signaling, we further addressed the effects of PTP1B on insulin-mediated inhibition of Smad2 activation. Our data showed that overexpression of PTP1B effectively attenuated insulin-induced inhibition of Smad2 stimulation. Moreover, the PTP1B inhibitor, 3-(3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxy-benzoyl)-2-ethyl-benzofuran-6-sulfonicacid-(4-(thiazol-2-ylsulfamyl)-phenyl)-amide (Compound-2), recovered insulin inhibition of Smad2 activation. In conclusion, our data revealed the insulin inhibitory effects on TGFbeta1-induced Smad2 activation and the regulation role of PTP1B in the inhibition events.
authors.affiliation: Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Kaixian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hualiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016466:CHO Cells; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000502:physiology; D008024:Ligands; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D054562:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D051899:Smad2 Protein / Q000378:metabolism*; D053773:Transforming Growth Factor beta1 / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D008024:Ligands; C497782:SMAD2 protein, human; D051899:Smad2 Protein; D053773:Transforming Growth Factor beta1; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; C516607:PTPN1 protein, human; D054562:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases