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Phosphoinositide-3 kinase-PKB/Akt pathway activation is involved in fibroblast Rat-1 transformation by human T-cell leukemia virus type I tax

Phosphoinositide-3 kinase-PKB/Akt pathway activation is involved in fibroblast Rat-1... Activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and its downstream target Akt are essential for the fibroblast transformation induced by many viral products. Tax, encoded by human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I), has been demonstrated to induce the transformation of rat fibroblast Rat-1 cell through NF-κB activation. By stable transfection of Rat-1 cells with expressing constructs of Tax and its mutant M47, which is defective in HTLV-I LTR transactivation, we selected their transformed clones, which have characteristics of NF-κB activation and colony formation beyond the cell monolayer (a malignant phenotype). However, these two characteristics in the transformed clones of Tax and M47 disappear after these cells have been treated with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of PI3K. Further, increased activity of the PI3K/Akt is observed in the transformed clones of Tax and M47 as compared to the clones of empty vector Neo and the M148, which is defective in NF-κB activation and cell transformation. Increased activity of PI5K is present in the transformed clones of both Tax and M47 and in the M148 clone as compared to that in the Neo cell. It is known that the efficiency of Tax-induced cell transformation is not high; a minority of Tax-expressing clones show transformation, although the majority of Tax-expressing clones show activated NF-κB. A Tax-expressing, nontransformed clone after transfection with an active form of the catalytic subunit of PI3K, p110α, becomes transformed. Consistent with these results, a Tax highly-expressing human T-cell line MT2 exhibits both higher polyphosphoinositide turnover and higher activities of PI3K and PI5K than those of Jurkat or MT1 and HTLV-I-negative and a Tax-unexpressing cell line, respectively. These results demonstrate that the activation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, excepting for the NF-κB, is also required for the cell transformation induced by Tax. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oncogene Springer Journals

Phosphoinositide-3 kinase-PKB/Akt pathway activation is involved in fibroblast Rat-1 transformation by human T-cell leukemia virus type I tax

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2001 by Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Medicine & Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Internal Medicine; Cell Biology; Human Genetics; Oncology; Apoptosis
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0950-9232
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1476-5594
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10.1038/sj.onc.1204364
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Abstract

Activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and its downstream target Akt are essential for the fibroblast transformation induced by many viral products. Tax, encoded by human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I), has been demonstrated to induce the transformation of rat fibroblast Rat-1 cell through NF-κB activation. By stable transfection of Rat-1 cells with expressing constructs of Tax and its mutant M47, which is defective in HTLV-I LTR transactivation, we selected their transformed clones, which have characteristics of NF-κB activation and colony formation beyond the cell monolayer (a malignant phenotype). However, these two characteristics in the transformed clones of Tax and M47 disappear after these cells have been treated with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of PI3K. Further, increased activity of the PI3K/Akt is observed in the transformed clones of Tax and M47 as compared to the clones of empty vector Neo and the M148, which is defective in NF-κB activation and cell transformation. Increased activity of PI5K is present in the transformed clones of both Tax and M47 and in the M148 clone as compared to that in the Neo cell. It is known that the efficiency of Tax-induced cell transformation is not high; a minority of Tax-expressing clones show transformation, although the majority of Tax-expressing clones show activated NF-κB. A Tax-expressing, nontransformed clone after transfection with an active form of the catalytic subunit of PI3K, p110α, becomes transformed. Consistent with these results, a Tax highly-expressing human T-cell line MT2 exhibits both higher polyphosphoinositide turnover and higher activities of PI3K and PI5K than those of Jurkat or MT1 and HTLV-I-negative and a Tax-unexpressing cell line, respectively. These results demonstrate that the activation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, excepting for the NF-κB, is also required for the cell transformation induced by Tax.

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Oncogene – Springer Journals

Published: May 10, 2001

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