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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 97, 期 2, 页码 835-840出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.2.835
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Overexpression of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) type I isozyme is associated with cell proliferation and neoplastic transformation. The presence of PKA on the external surface of LS-174T human colon carcinoma cells has been shown. Here, we show that cancer cells of various cell types excrete PKA into the conditioned medium. This extracellular PKA (ECPKA) is present in active, free catalytic subunit (C subunit) form, and its activity is specifically inhibited by PKA inhibitory protein, PKI. Overexpression of the CLY or RI alpha subunit gene of PKA in an expression vector, which upregulates intracellular PKA type I, markedly up-regulates ECPKA expression. In contrast, overexpression of the RII beta subunit, which eliminates PKA type I, up-regulates PKA type II, and reverts the transformed phenotype, down-regulates ECPKA. A mutation in the C alpha gene that prevents myristylation allows the intracellular PKA up-regulation but blocks the ECPKA increase, suggesting that the NH2-terminal myristyl group of C alpha is required for the ECPKA expression. In serum of cancer patients, the ECPKA expression is up-regulated 10-fold as compared with normal serum. These results indicate that the ECPKA expression is an ordered cellular response of a living cell to actively exclude excess intracellular PKA molecules from the cell. This phenomenon is up-regulated in tumor cells and has an inverse relationship with the hormone dependency of breast cancer. Thus, the extracellular PKA may serve as a potential diagnostic and prognostic marker for cancer.
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