Insulin stimulation of gene expression mediated by p21ras activation.
AUTOR(ES)
Burgering, B M
RESUMO
In fibroblasts, insulin is a weak mitogen and does not induce expression of c-fos, c-jun or p33. However, increasing the expression levels of either normal p21Hras or the insulin receptor, but not mutant p21Hras, enables insulin to induce the expression of these genes. In cells expressing elevated levels of insulin receptor, this process involves a rapid increase in p21rasGTP levels (from 20% to 70% GTP as a percentage of total guanine nucleotides). No increase in p21rasGTP levels was observed after PDGF and EGF stimulation of cells expressing high levels of the cognate receptor, stressing the specificity of the insulin-induced increase. We conclude that in fibroblasts, p21ras is an intermediate of the insulin signal transduction pathway involved in the regulation of gene expression and mitogenicity.
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