期刊
STEROIDS
卷 69, 期 8-9, 页码 591-597出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2004.05.008
关键词
PKC alpha; membranes; rapid actions; vitamin D; estrogen; matrix vesicles
资金
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE-05937, DE-08603] Funding Source: Medline
Our work is based on the hypothesis that steroid hormones regulate cells through traditional cytoplasmic and nuclear receptor-mediated mechanisms, as well as-by rapid effects that are mediated by membrane-associated pathways. We have used the rat costochondral growth plate chondrocyte culture model to study the signaling mechanisms used by steroid hormones to elicit rapid responses and to modulate gene expression in target cells. Our studies show that the secosteroids 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1alpha,25(OH)(2)D-3] and 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [24R,25(OH)(2)D-3], and the steroid hormone 17beta-estradiol, cause rapid increases in protein kinase C alpha (PKCalpha) activity, and many of the physiological responses of the cells to these regulators are PKC-dependent. Target cell specificity and the mechanisms by which PKCalpha is activated vary with each hormone. PKC activation initiates a signaling cascade that results in activation of the ERK1/2 family of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK), providing an alternate method for the steroids to modulate gene expression other than by traditional steroid hormone receptor-mediated pathways. In addition to their effects on growth plate chondrocytes, steroid hormones secreted by the cells also control events in the extracellular matrix through direct non-genomic regulation of matrix vesicles. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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