期刊
FASEB JOURNAL
卷 17, 期 9, 页码 1576-+出版社
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.03-0037fje
关键词
signal transduction; kidney cells; collagen; fibrogenesis
资金
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK049362] Funding Source: Medline
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) stimulates renal cell fibrogenesis by a poorly understood mechanism. Previously, we suggested a synergy between TGF-beta1 activated extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) and Smad signaling in collagen production by human glomerular mesangial cells. In a heterologous DNA binding transcription assay, biochemical or dominant-negative ERK blockade reduced TGF-beta1 induced Smad3 activity. Total serine phosphorylation of Smad2/3, but not phosphorylation of the C-terminal (SSXSP)-X-P motif, was de creased by pretreatment with the MEK/ERK inhibitors, PD98059 (10 muM) or U0126 (25 muM). This effect was not seen in the mouse mammary epithelial NMuMG cell line, indicating that ERK-dependent activation of Smad2/3 occurs only in certain cell types. TGF-beta stimulated phosphorylation of an expressed S m ad 3 A construct, wit h a mutated C-terminal (SSXSP)-X-P motif, was reduced by a MEK/ERK inhibitor. In contrast, MEK/ERK inhibition did not affect phosphorylation of a Smad3 construct mutated at consensus phosphorylation sites in the linker region (Smad3EPSM). Constitutively active MEK (caMEK) induced alpha2(I) collagen promoter activity, an effect blocked by co-transfected Smad3EPSM, but not Smad3A. The effects of caMEK and TGF-alpha1 on collagen promoter activity were additive. These results indicate that ERK-dependent R-Smad linker region phosphorylation enhances collagen I synthesis and imply positive cross talk between the ERK and Smad pathways in human mesangial cells.
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