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Functional role for protein kinase Cbeta as a regulator of stress-activated protein kinase activation and monocytic differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells.

Human myeloid leukemia cells respond to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and other activators of protein kinase C (PKC) with induction of monocytic differentiation. The present studies demonstrated that treatment of U-937 and HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells with TPA, phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate, or bryostatin 1 was associated with the induction of stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK). In contrast, TPA-resistant TUR and HL-525 cell variants deficient in PKCbeta failed to respond to activators of PKC with the induction of SAPK. A direct role for PKCbeta in TPA- induced SAPK activity in TUR and HL-525 cells that stably express PKCbeta was confirmed. We showed that TPA induced the association of PKCbeta with MEK kinase 1 (MEKK-1), an upstream effector of the SAPK/ERK kinase 1 (SEK1)-->SAPK cascade. The results also demonstrated that PKCbeta phosphorylated and activated MEKK-1 in vitro. The functional role of MEKK-1 in TPA- induced SAPK activity was further supported by the demonstration that the expression of a dominant negative MEKK-1 mutant abrogated this response. These findings indicate that PKCbeta activation is necessary for activation of the MEKK-1-->SEK1-->SAPK cascade in the TPA response of myeloid leukemia cells.[1]

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  1. Functional role for protein kinase Cbeta as a regulator of stress-activated protein kinase activation and monocytic differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells. Kaneki, M., Kharbanda, S., Pandey, P., Yoshida, K., Takekawa, M., Liou, J.R., Stone, R., Kufe, D. Mol. Cell. Biol. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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