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Induction of apoptosis by stomach cancer-associated protein-tyrosine phosphatase-1.

Stomach cancer-associated protein-tyrosine phosphatase-1 (SAP-1), a transmembrane-type protein-tyrosine phosphatase, is thought to inhibit integrin signaling by mediating the dephosphorylation of focal adhesion-associated proteins. Adenovirus-mediated overexpression of wild-type SAP-1, but not that of a catalytically inactive mutant of this enzyme, has now been shown to induce apoptosis in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. This effect of SAP-1 was dependent on cellular caspase activities and was preceded by inactivation of two serine-threonine protein kinases, Akt and integrin-linked kinase ( ILK), both of which function downstream of phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase to promote cell survival. Coexpression of constitutively active forms of PI 3-kinase or Akt (which fully restored Akt and ILK activities) resulted in partial inhibition of SAP-1-induced cell death. Furthermore, expression of a dominant negative mutant of PI 3-kinase did not induce cell death as efficiently as did SAP-1, although this mutant inhibited Akt and ILK activities more effectively than did SAP-1. Overexpression of SAP-1 had no substantial effect on Ras activity. These results suggest that SAP-1 induces apoptotic cell death by at least two distinct mechanisms: inhibition of cell survival signaling mediated by PI 3-kinase, Akt, and ILK and activation of a caspase-dependent proapoptotic pathway.[1]

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  1. Induction of apoptosis by stomach cancer-associated protein-tyrosine phosphatase-1. Takada, T., Noguchi, T., Inagaki, K., Hosooka, T., Fukunaga, K., Yamao, T., Ogawa, W., Matozaki, T., Kasuga, M. J. Biol. Chem. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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