Transformation by a nucleotide-activated P2Y receptor is mediated by activation of Galphai, Galphaq and Rho-dependent signaling pathways.

Journal of Molecular Signaling
Anurag SinghIrene E Zohn

Abstract

Nucleotide-actived P2Y receptors play critical roles in the growth of tumor cells by regulating cellular proliferation, differentiation and survival. Here we demonstrate that an avian P2Y purinoceptor (tP2YR) with unique pharmacological and signal transduction properties induces morphologic and growth transformation of rodent fibroblasts. tP2YR induced a transformed phenotype similar to the mas oncogene, a G protein-coupled receptor which causes transformation by activation of Rac-dependent pathways. tP2YR-transformed cells exhibited increased steady-state activation of Rac1 and RhoA. Like activated Rho GTPases, tP2YR cooperated with activated Raf and caused synergistic transformation of NIH3T3 cells. Our data indicate that the ability of tP2YR to cause transformation is due to its unique ability among purinergic receptors to simultaneously activate Galphaq and Galphai. Co-expression of constitutively activated mutants of these two Galpha subunits caused the same transformed phenotype as tP2YR and Mas. Furthermore, transformation by both tP2YR and Mas was blocked by pharmacological inhibition of GalphaI by pertussis toxin (PTX) indicating an essential role for Galphai in transformation by these G-protein coupled receptors. Our ...Continue Reading

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