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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 9, Pages 593-600Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/35023536
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Activation of the canonical mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade by soluble mitogens is blocked in nonadherent cells. It is also blocked in cells in which the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is activated. Here we show that inhibition of PKA allows anchorage-independent stimulation of the MAPK cascade by growth factors. This effect is transient, and its duration correlates with sustained tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin and focal-adhesion kinase (FAK) in non-adherent cells. The effect is sensitive to cytochalasin D, implicating the actin cytoskeleton as an important factor in mediating this anchorage-independent signalling. Interestingly, constitutively active p21-activated kinase (PAK) also allows anchorage-independent MAPK signalling. Furthermore, PKA negatively regulates PAK in vivo, and whereas the induction of anchorage-independent signaling resulting from PKA suppression is blocked by dominant negative PAK, it is markedly prolonged by constitutively active PAK, These observations indicate that PKA and PAK are important regulators of anchorage-dependent signal transduction.
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