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Increased constitutive activity of mitogen-activated protein kinase and renaturable 85 kDa kinase in human-colorectal cancer.

Abstract：

:Protein kinases play a key role in intracellular signalling, participating at multiple levels along the transduction cascades that trigger mitogenic response. Because protein kinases are involved in mitogenic pathways, they are likely to play a role in the abnormal proliferation of malignant cells. In this study we compared activity of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase and several renaturable kinases in homogenates of 30 surgically resected colorectal cancers and their adjacent normal tissues. Using sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and membrane autophosphorylation assay on homogenates obtained from normal colon mucosa and adenocarcinoma, we identified at least four renaturable kinases (50, 55, 85, 200 kDa). Compared with adjacent tissue, in most of the cancer samples only the 85-kDa kinase exhibited a higher level of autophosphorylation activity than those in normal matched tissue (P < 0.001). Moreover, the 85-kDa kinase from nearly all cancer homogenates showed faster electrophoretic mobility than the 85-kDa kinase from normal tissue homogenates. Interestingly, the 50-kDa kinase had significantly lower autophosphorylation activity in cancer tissues than those of normal tissue (P< 0.05). To assess p42-p44 MAP kinase activity, proteins were immunoprecipitated from adjacent colon mucosa and adenocarcinoma with anti-extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) 1/2 antibodies, and MAP kinase activity was measured using MBP as a substrate. These studies revealed that MAP kinase activity in colorectal cancer was significantly higher (P < 0.001) than that in adjacent mucosa. Thus, the constitutive activity of MAP kinase and autophosphorylation activity of 85-kDa kinase are increased, whereas the autophosphorylation activity of another kinase, 50 kDa, is decreased in colorectal adenocarcinoma. However, although signal transduction pathways are markedly altered in this cancer, neither p42/p44 MAP kinase activity nor 85-kDa autokinase activity could be correlated with the established prognostic indicators.

journal_name

Br J Cancer

journal_title

British journal of cancer

authors

Ostrowski J,Trzeciak L,Kołodziejski J,Bomsztyk K

doi

10.1038/bjc.1998.675

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1301-6

issue

eissn

0007-0920

issn

1532-1827

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Increased constitutive activity of mitogen-activated protein kinase and renaturable 85 kDa kinase in human-colorectal cancer.