Abstract:
:Staurosporine is one of the most potent and well known inhibitors of protein kinases, and it is often used to study the involvement of protein kinases in signal transduction pathways. We now report that staurosporine can induce the production of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) independently of protein kinase inhibition. Staurosporine markedly stimulated the production of HGF in various cell types, including human skin fibroblasts. Its effect was accompanied by up-regulation of HGF gene expression. The inhibition of protein kinases appears not to be involved in staurosporine-induced HGF production, because other protein kinase inhibitors, K-252a, H-7, GF 109203X and genistein, had no HGF-inducing activity. UCN-01, 7-hydroxystaurosporine, which differs from staurosporine only in its aglycone moiety, also showed HGF-inducing activity, and inactive K-252a differs from staurosporine only in its sugar moiety. These results indicate that the sugar moiety, a six-atom ring structure, is important in the HGF-inducing activity of staurosporine. Experiments were then carried out to determine whether the characteristics of staurosporine-induced HGF production have similarities to those of HGF production stimulated by other HGF inducers. The effect of staurosporine like that of 8-bromo-cAMP and that of cholera toxin was marked in human skin fibroblasts from all four different sources, whereas the effects of epidermal growth factor and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate were variable depending on cells. The net increase in HGF production induced by staurosporine was not reduced in protein kinase C-depleted human skin fibroblasts. Moreover, synergistic induction of HGF was detected between staurosporine and interferon-gamma as well as between 8-bromo-cAMP and interferon-gamma. Staurosporine, however, did not increase intracellular cAMP levels in human skin fibroblasts. These results indicate that staurosporine induced HGF in different cell types via a signaling pathway similar to the cAMP-mediated pathway without increasing cAMP levels.
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Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Yagi Y,Sotani T,Nagao T,Horio T,Yamamoto I,Gohda Edoi
10.1016/s0006-2952(03)00547-1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-11-01 00:00:00pages
1797-808issue
9eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
S0006295203005471journal_volume
66pub_type
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