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12(S)‐hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid increases the actin microfilament content in B16a melanoma cells: A protein kinase‐dependent process
Author(s) -
Rice Renee L.,
Tang Dean G.,
Haddad Maher,
Honn Kenneth V.,
Taylor John D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19980717)77:2<271::aid-ijc17>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid , microfilament , actin , protein kinase a , microbiology and biotechnology , chemistry , protein kinase c , process (computing) , kinase , biology , biochemistry , cytoskeleton , enzyme , cell , arachidonic acid , computer science , operating system
12(S)‐hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid [12(S)‐HETE], a lipoxygenase metabolite of arachidonic acid, has been shown to be involved in a wide variety of cellular activities ( i.e., adhesion, spreading, motility, invasion) which promote metastasis to occur in tumor cells. In this study, several techniques (Western blotting, flow cytometry and DNase I assay) were performed to examine the alterations in the distribution of G‐ and F‐actin expressed in B16a melanoma cells. Each of these methods independently revealed that 12(S)‐HETE treatment (0.1 mM, 15 min) resulted in an increase in the F‐actin content in the cytoskeletal preparations. Since the integrity of cytoskeletal networks ( i.e., actin filaments) can be dynamically regulated through protein phosphorylation, we investigated the potential role of several protein kinases in the 12(S)‐HETE‐induced actin polymerization. By flow cytometric analysis, 12(S)‐HETE was found to increase the actin filament contents. This effect could be inhibited by protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors (calphostin C and staurosporine) as well as by protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) inhibitor (genistein) but not by protein kinase A inhibitor (H8), suggesting that the 12(S)‐HETE effect involves PKC and PTK. This conclusion is consistent with the observations that phorbol 12‐myristate‐13‐acetate (PMA) mimics the biological effect of 12(S)‐HETE in promoting the F‐actin formation in B16a cells. As a final analysis, direct protein phosphorylation studies indicate that 12(S)‐HETE treatment led to enhanced phosphorylation of myosin light chain, which may contribute to the increased stress fiber formation following 12(S)‐HETE stimulation. Int. J. Cancer 77:271–278, 1998.© 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.