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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 150, Issue 1, Pages 83-93Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvr037
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Akt; IGF-1; Pharbin; PI3 kinase; protein synthesis
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan
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Pharbin, a 5-phosphatase that induces arborization, is one of the phosphoinositide 5-phosphatases that is highly mutated in patients with Joubert syndrome. Pharbin can hydrolyse PI(4,5)P-2 and PI(3,4,5)P-3 and has the same substrate specificity as SHIP2 and SKIP, which negatively regulate PI3K signalling. Here, we investigated the role of pharbin in IGF-1/PI3K signalling. Ectopic expression of pharbin markedly suppressed the IGF-1-induced activation of Akt without affecting p42/44 MAP kinase phosphorylation. In contrast, pharbin silencing by RNA interference increased the IGF-1-induced phosphorylation of Akt, suggesting that pharbin negatively regulates PI3K/Akt signalling. Pharbin expression also inhibited the phosphorylation of p70 S6 kinase and 4E-BP1 as well as the subsequent protein synthesis in response to IGF-1 treatment. Taken together, these results indicate that pharbin is an important negative regulator of IGF-1/PI3K/Akt signalling and protein synthesis.
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