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Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases Erk-1 and Erk-2 by cell swelling in H4IIE hepatoma cells.

ABSTRACT: Hepatic metabolism and gene expression are among the factors controlled by the cellular hydration state, which changes within minutes in response to aniso-osmotic environments, cumulative substrate uptake, oxidative stress and under the influence of hormones such as insulin. The signalling events coupling cell-volume changes to altered cell function were studied in H4IIE rat hepatoma cells. Hypo-osmotic cell swelling resulted within 1 min in a tyrosine kinase-mediated activation of the extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases Erk-1 and Erk-2, which was independent of protein kinase C and cytosolic calcium. Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases was followed by an increased phosphorylation of c-Jun, which may explain our recently reported finding of an about 5-fold increase in c-jun mRNA level in response to cell swelling. Pretreatment of cells with pertussis or cholera toxin abolished the swelling-induced activation of Erk-1 and Erk-2, suggesting the involvement of G-proteins. Thus, a signal-transduction pathway resembling growth factor signalling is activated already by osmotic water shifts across the plasma membrane, thereby providing a new perspective for adaption of cell function to alterations of the environment.

SUBMITTER: Schliess F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1135793 | biostudies-other | 1995 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:Human intestine 407 cells respond to hypo-osmotic stress by the rapid release of ATP into the extracellular medium. A difference in the time course of activation as well as in the sensitivity to cytochalasin B treatment and BAPTA-AM [1,2-bis-(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetra-acetic acid acetoxymethyl ester] loading suggests that ATP leaves the cell through a pathway distinct from volume-regulated anion channels. To evaluate a putative role for nucleotides as autocrinic/paracrinic factors in osmotic signalling, the effects of extracellular ATP on the regulation of volume-sensitive anion channels as well as on the hypotonicity-induced activation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (Erk-1/2) were investigated. Micromolar concentrations of ATP were unable to elicit an isotope efflux from (125)I(-)-loaded cells by itself, but strongly potentiated the hypotonicity-provoked anion efflux through a Ca(2+)-dependent mechanism. The order of potency of nucleotides (ATP = UTP = ATP[S] > ADP = AMP >> adenosine = cAMP) indicated the involvement of P2Y(2) receptors. In contrast, millimolar concentrations of ATP markedly inhibited both the osmotically induced isotope efflux and whole-cell Cl(-) currents. Inhibition of whole-cell Cl(-) currents, not only by millimolar ATP but also by the purinoceptor antagonists suramin and reactive blue, was observed most prominently at depolarizing holding potentials, suggesting a direct interaction with volume-sensitive Cl(-) channels rather than interaction with purinoceptors. Both ATP and UTP, at submicromolar levels, were found to act as potent activators of Erk-1/2 in intestine 407 cells. Addition of the ATP hydrolase apyrase to the bath greatly reduced the hypotonicity-induced Erk-1/2 activation, but did not affect the swelling-induced isotope efflux or whole-cell Cl(-) currents. Furthermore, pre-treatment with suramin or reactive blue almost completely prevented the hypo-osmotic activation of Erk-1/2. The results indicate that extracellularly released ATP functions as an autocrinic/paracrinic factor that mediates hypotonicity-induced Erk-1/2 activation but does not serve as an activator of volume-sensitive compensatory Cl(-) currents.

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Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases Erk-1 and Erk-2 by cell swelling in H4IIE hepatoma cells.

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