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(The FASEB Journal. 1999;13:1593-1600.)
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Platelet-derived growth factor-induced activation of sphingosine kinase requires phosphorylation of the PDGF receptor tyrosine residue responsible for binding of PLC{gamma}

ANA OLIVERA, LISA EDSALL, SAMANTHA POULTON, ANDRIUS KAZLAUSKAS* and SARAH SPIEGEL1

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20007, USA; and the
* Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA

1Correspondence: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 353 Basic Science Building, 3900 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. E-mail: spiegel{at}bc.georgetown.edu


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Sphingosine-1-phosphate, a sphingolipid metabolite, is involved in the mitogenic response of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and is formed by activation of sphingosine kinase. We examined the effect of PDGF on sphingosine kinase activation in TRMP cells expressing wild-type or various mutant ßPDGF receptors. Sphingosine kinase was stimulated by PDGF in cells expressing wild-type receptors but not in cells expressing kinase-inactive receptors (R634). Cells expressing mutated PDGF receptors with phenylalanine substitutions at five major tyrosine phosphorylation sites 740/751/771/1009/1021 (F5 mutants), which are unable to associate with PLC{gamma}, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, Ras GTPase-activating protein, or protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2, not only failed to increase DNA synthesis in response to PDGF but also did not activate sphingosine kinase. Moreover, mutation of tyrosine-1021 of the PDGF receptor to phenylalanine, which impairs its association with PLC{gamma}, abrogated PDGF-induced activation of sphingosine kinase. In contrast, PDGF was still able to stimulate sphingosine kinase in cells expressing the PDGF receptor mutated at tyrosines 740/751 and 1009, responsible for binding of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and SHP-2, respectively. In agreement, PDGF did not stimulate sphingosine kinase activity in F5 receptor `add-back' mutants in which association with the Ras GTPase-activating protein, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, or SHP-2 was individually restored. However, a mutant PDGF receptor that was able to bind PLC{gamma} (tyrosine-1021), but not other signaling proteins, restored sphingosine kinase sensitivity to PDGF. These data indicate that the tyrosine residue responsible for binding of PLC{gamma} is required for PDGF-induced activation of sphingosine kinase. Moreover, calcium mobilization downstream of PLC{gamma}, but not protein kinase C activation, appears to be required for stimulation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF.—Olivera, A., Edsall, J., Poulton, S., Kazlauskas, A., Spiegel, S. Platelet-derived growth factor-induced activation of sphingosine kinase requires phosphorylation of the PDGF receptor tyrosine residue responsible for binding of PLC{gamma}.


Key Words: platelet-derived growth factor • SPP • DNA synthesis • DMS


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PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR (PDGF)2 plays an important role in many other physiological processes besides cell growth regulation, including differentiation, chemotaxis, inflammation, wound healing, production of extracellular matrix, and development of placenta and embryo (1 , 2) . The three isoforms of PDGF (PDGF-AA, -BB, or -AB) bind with different affinities to two related tyrosine-kinase receptors, denoted PDGF{alpha} and ß receptors. Dimerization of the receptor leads to activation of the intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity (1 , 2) , resulting in autophosphorylation of the receptor on several tyrosine residues. Phosphorylation of tyrosine-857 located in tyrosine kinase domain 2 regulates the catalytic activity of the receptor. Other phosphorylated tyrosine residues located in the juxtamembrane domain, the kinase insert, and the carboxyl-terminal tail of the PDGF receptor constitute specific binding sites for multiple intracellular targets that initiate, directly or indirectly, distinct downstream signaling cascades (2) . Some of these targets have been identified, such as phospholipase C{gamma} (PLC{gamma}), phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI-3 kinase), Ras GTPase-activating protein, Src family kinases, and Grb2, Nck, Shc adaptor proteins (2) . Each recognizes specific tyrosine-phosphate residues in the context of three adjacent carboxyl-terminal amino acid residues and, in some cases, become tyrosine-phosphorylated and initiate a signal thereafter.

Normal and mutated PDGF-receptors have been expressed in cells that lack the PDGF receptor, such as the canine kidney epithelial cell line TRMP (3) . By constructing site-directed mutant receptors with phenylalanine residues instead of specific tyrosine residues, it was possible to delineate the involvement of the particular signal transduction molecules that bind to those tyrosine residues and their correlation with cell proliferation. Thus, it was found that Ras activation is insufficient to trigger PDGF-dependent DNA synthesis and that PLC{gamma} and PI-3 kinase are independent downstream mediators of PDGF-induced mitogenesis (4) . However, the precise involvement of each of these pathways remains unresolved, due in part to the redundancy in mitogenic signaling induced by PDGF (2 , 4) .

Data from our laboratory have suggested that sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP), a breakdown product of membrane sphingolipids, is another second messenger involved in the mitogenic response to PDGF (5) . Activation of sphingosine kinase, the enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of sphingosine to SPP, may initiate additional mitogenic signaling pathways, as SPP has been shown to induce calcium release from internal stores in an inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) -independent manner (6) , stimulate phospholipase D (7) , and activate the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) cascade (8 , 9) leading to gene expression (10) . In addition to PDGF, other mitogens, including protein kinase C activators (11 , 12) , the B subunit of cholera toxin (13) , and other physiological stimuli including nerve growth factor F (14 , 15) , vitamin D3 (16) , cross-linking of Fc{varepsilon}RI (17) and Fc{gamma}RI (18) , and binding of carbachol to m2 and m3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (19) , increase cellular levels of SPP by activation of sphingosine kinase. Most important, both D,L-threo-dihydrosphingosine (D,L-threo-DHS) and N,N-dimethylsphingosine (DMS), competitive inhibitors of sphingosine kinase (20) , prevented formation of SPP and not only inhibited cellular proliferation induced by PDGF, but also blocked calcium mobilization (17 , 19) and the cytoprotective effects of survival factors (9 , 20) , further supporting a role for endogenous SPP. D,L-threo-DHS also inhibited the activation of two cyclin-dependent kinases (p34Cdc2 kinase and Cdk2 kinase) induced by PDGF, but not by epidermal growth factor (EGF) (21) . SPP reversed the inhibitory effects of D,L-threo-DHS, demonstrating that its effects were mediated via inhibition of sphingosine kinase. Examination of the early signaling events of PDGF action revealed that D,L-threo-DHS did not affect PDGF-induced autophosphorylation of the growth factor receptor or phosphorylation of the SH2/SH3 adaptor protein Shc and its association with Grb2, but did inhibit PDGF-stimulated, and not EGF-stimulated, Crk phosphorylation and ERK activation (21) . These results suggest that regulation of sphingosine kinase activity and elevation of endogenous SPP define divergence in signal transduction pathways of PDGF and EGF receptors leading to ERK activation.

Despite the importance of sphingosine kinase in cell growth and survival, little is known about its regulation. To study the mechanisms of activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF, we examined PDGF-dependent sphingosine kinase activation in TRMP cells expressing wild-type (WT) or mutant PDGFß receptors (ßPDGFR) lacking specific tyrosine residues and also a series of `add-back' mutants that can selectively couple to PLC{gamma}, PI3K, rasGAP, or the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 (previously called Syp, SH-PTP2, PTP1D). We found that the tyrosine residue responsible for binding of PLC{gamma} (tyrosine-1021) is required for PDGF-induced activation of sphingosine kinase, which occurs in a protein kinase C-independent, calcium mobilization-dependent manner.


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Materials
PDGF-BB was from Upstate Biotechnology Inc. (Lake Placid, N.Y.). SPP, sphingosine, DMS, PLC inhibitor U73122 (1-[6-(17ß-3-methoxyestra-1,3,5 (10) -trien-17-yl)amino)hexyl]-1H-pyrrole-2,5-dione) were from Biomol Research Laboratory Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.). [{gamma}-32P]ATP (3000 Ci/mmol) was purchased from Amersham (Arlington Heights, Ill.). 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and essentially fatty acid-free bovine serum albumin (BSA) were obtained from Sigma (St. Louis, Mo.). Thapsigargin, BAPTA-AM, and bisindolylmaleimide were from Calbiochem (San Diego, Calif.). Anti-phosphotyrosine antibody was obtained from Transduction Laboratories (Lexington, Ky.).

Cells
TRMP canine kidney epithelial cells were infected with a virus harboring a vector (pLXSN) carrying wild-type ßPDGFR, receptors mutated at specific tyrosine residues to phenylalanine, or a kinase-defective PDGF receptor mutant and selected in G418 (1 mg/ml) medium as described previously (3 , 4) . This study is restricted to ßPDGFR, which dimerizes in response to binding PDGF-BB. Parental TRMP cells do not express detectable levels of the PDGFß subunit receptor, and cells carrying wild-type ßPDGFR express ~6 x 106 receptors/cell as determined by quantitative Western immunoblotting (3) . TRMP cells express very low levels of {alpha}PDGFR. We also used a previously characterized series of PDGFR phosphorylation site mutants that included F5 (containing tyrosine to phenylalanine substitutions at positions 740, 751, 771,1009, and 1021) and four `add-back' constructs in which the binding site for one of the receptor-associated proteins was added back to the F5 receptor. These mutants are designated Y740/51, Y771, Y1009, and Y1021, and selectively associate with PI3K, RasGAP, SHP-2, and PLC{gamma}, respectively. Cells were cultured in DMEM supplemented with 4 mM L-glutamine, 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 µg/ml streptomycin and incubated at 37°C in a humidified, 5% CO2-controlled incubator (4) .

DNA synthesis
TRMP cells were seeded in 24-well plates at 3 x 104 cells per well, cultured for 24 h, and then growth-arrested for 48 h by replacement of the culture medium with medium containing 2% horse serum. Cells were stimulated with PDGF or SPP for 18 h and pulsed with 1 µCi of [3H]thymidine for 2 h (3) . Incorporation of radioactivity into trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material was measured as described (5) . Values are the means of triplicate determinations and standard deviations were routinely less than 10% of the mean.

Sphingosine kinase activity
Sphingosine kinase activity in the cytosol was measured as described previously (5) . Briefly, TRMP cells (6 x 105 cells per 100 mm dish) were washed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), serum-starved for 2 days, preincubated with 50 µM sodium orthovanadate for 30 min, and stimulated with PDGF for various periods. Cells were washed with PBS, lysed by freeze-thawing, and cytosolic fractions were prepared by ultracentrifugation at 105,000 x g for 90 min. Sphingosine kinase activity was measured by incubating cytosolic extracts (30 µg) with [{gamma}32P]ATP (0.5 µCi, 1 mM) containing MgCl2 (10 mM) and 50 µM sphingosine (BSA complex) in buffer A (20 mM Tris (pH 7.4), 20% glycerol, 1 mM mercaptoethanol, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM sodium orthovanadate, 40 mM ß-glycero-phosphate, 15 mM NaF, 10 µg/ml leupeptin, aprotinin and soybean trypsin inhibitor, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), and 0.5 mM 4-deoxypyridoxine) and incubated for 15 min at 37°C. Labeled lipids were extracted and resolved by thin-layer chromatography (TLC); [32P]SPP was excised from the TLC plate and counted by liquid scintillation spectrometry or, alternatively, quantified with a Molecular Dynamics Storm PhosphorImager (Sunnyvale, Calif.). Sphingosine kinase specific activity is expressed as pmol of SPP formed per min/mg protein. Values are the means of triplicate determinations and standard deviations were routinely less than 10% of the mean.

Western blot analysis
Tyrosine receptor phosphorylation was analyzed by immunoblotting with an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody (4) . Briefly, serum-starved confluent and quiescent cells were treated with PDGF for 5 min. Cells were then washed and lysed with a buffer consisting of 1% Triton X-100 in 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.9), 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM EDTA, and a mixture of phosphatase and protease inhibitors (10 mM NaF, 2 mM sodium orthovanadate, 4 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 1 mM PMSF, 5 µg/ml aprotinin, and leupeptin). Lysed cells were harvested by scraping and centrifuging at 14,500 x g for 10 min at 4°C. The lysates were boiled in 1x Laemmli sample buffer and equal amounts of protein separated by SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) on 7.5% gels. After electrophoretic transfer to nitrocellulose membranes (MSI, Inc.) using a Bio-Rad transblot apparatus, the phosphotyrosine containing proteins were detected by Western blotting using an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (RC20H) and visualized using enhanced chemiluminescence reagents.

PKC assay
Cells were washed twice with PBS, scraped from dishes in buffer A, and lysed by freeze-thawing three times. After centrifugation at 14,000 x g for 20 min, supernatant was saved as the cytosolic fraction and the pellet was resuspended by passing through a 27-gauge needle 10 times in buffer A containing 0.1% Triton X-100; protein kinase C (PKC) activity in both fractions was measured using a PKC assay kit (Upstate Biotechnology, Inc., Lake Placid, N.Y.) as described previously (20) .


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Role of autophosphorylation of the PDGF receptor in activation of sphingosine kinase
To delineate a role for PDGF receptor tyrosine phosphorylation and examine the importance of known signal transduction pathways in the activation of sphingosine kinase by PGDF, we used TRMP cells expressing ßPDGFR mutants impaired in their ability to associate with and activate specific signaling components (3 , 4) . The advantage of TRMP cells is that though they lack ßPDGFR, exogenously added SPP can stimulate their growth, suggesting that they contain the machinery necessary to respond to SPP (Table 1 ). As expected, PDGF did not stimulate DNA synthesis or sphingosine kinase activity in cells carrying an empty viral vector. However, when these cells were infected with virus encoding the wild-type ßPDGFR (WT), PDGF stimulated proliferation and concomitantly activated sphingosine kinase (Table 1) . The increase in sphingosine kinase activity induced by PDGF was transient, reaching a maximum within 5–10 min; it remained elevated for 30 min and declined thereafter (Fig. 1A ). This time course of activation was similar to that previously observed in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts (5) , which express endogenous ßPDGFR. In more than 20 experiments, basal activity was in the range of 15–30 pmol/(pmol·min-1·mg-1). Although PDGF always stimulated sphingosine kinase activity within 10 min in WT cells, the magnitude of the response varies between 1.4- and 1.7-fold stimulation among the different experiments. This is probably due to slight differences in culture conditions, cell density, and passage number.


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Table 1. Comparison of PDGF- and SPP-induced mitogenic response and stimulation of sphingosine kinase activity in PDGFR-expressing TRMP cellsa



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Figure 1. PDGF transiently stimulates sphingosine kinase activity in TRMP cells expressing wild-type PDGFR. A) Vector and wild-type (WT) ßPDGFR-expressing TRMP cells were stimulated with PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml) for the times indicated or for 10 min (inset) and sphingosine kinase activity was determined. Open bars, unstimulated; filled bars, PDGF treated. Data are expressed as fold stimulation and are the means from three independent experiments, each done in triplicate. Values at 5, 10, 15, and 30 min were significantly different from control as determined by Student's t test (P<0.01). B) N,N-Dimethylsphingosine inhibits the mitogenic effect of PDGF. Vector and WT PDGFR-expressing TRMP cells were stimulated with PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml) in the absence or presence of the indicated concentrations of DMS. After 18 h, cells were pulsed with 1 µCi of [3H]thymidine for 2 h and the incorporation of radioactivity into trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material was measured as described in Materials and Methods.

Similar to our previous studies (5 , 20 , 21) , inhibition of sphingosine kinase with DMS partially inhibited the proliferative effect of PDGF in PDGFR-transfected TRMP cells, suggesting that PDGF stimulates DNA synthesis by a mechanism that depends in part on sphingosine kinase activation (Fig. 1B ).

TRMP cells that express ßPDGFR with arginine at position 635 (R635) and are tyrosine kinase defective (KD-PDGFR) (22) failed to stimulate sphingosine kinase or DNA synthesis in response to PDGF. The kinase inactive receptor is able to dimerize upon binding of PDGF-BB but is not able to autophosphorylate (Fig. 2 B). These results suggest that the tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor is essential for sphingosine kinase activation by PDGF. In agreement, genistein, a general inhibitor of tyrosine phosphorylation that greatly inhibits the tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor, completely abolished the activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF-BB in wild-type ßPDGFR-expressing cells (data not shown). Sphingosine kinase activation by a nongrowth factor receptor, Fc{gamma}RI, is also tyrosine kinase dependent (18) .



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Figure 2. Requirement of specific PDGFR tyrosine residues for activation of sphingosine kinase. A)TRMP cells expressing the indicated PDGFR were stimulated for 10 min without (empty bars) or with (filled bars) PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml) and sphingosine kinase activity was measured. Data are the means ± SD of triplicate determinations. Similar results were obtained in at least five additional experiments. The effects of PDGF on sphingosine kinase activity were significantly different from unstimulated cells in WT, F740/751, and F1009 cells, but not in KD and F1021 cells, as determined by Student's t test (P<0.01). B) In duplicate cultures, cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-ßPDGFR antibody; proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to nitrocelullose, blotted with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody, and visualized by enhanced chemiluminescence. ßPDGFR is indicated by an arrow.

TRMP cells expressing mutated PDGFR (F5 mutants) with phenylalanine substitutions at five major tyrosine phosphorylation sites (740/751/771/1009/1021), which are therefore unable to associate with PLC{gamma}, PI3K, Ras-GAP, or SHP-2, also failed to increase DNA synthesis (4) and activate sphingosine kinase in response to PDGF (Table 1) . It should be noted that the F5 mutant is efficiently phosphorylated in response to PDGF (Fig. 2B ). This has been observed in TRMP and other cell types (4 , 22 23 24) , and may reflect the fact that this receptor retains a number of phosphorylation sites, including a major one at Y857. Moreover, the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase Src is able to associate with the juxtamembrane domain, tyrosine residues 579/581 (25) present in all of the PDGFR described here. Our results suggest that activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF depends on the phosphorylation of one or more of the specific tyrosines mutated in the F5 PDGFR mutants and might be downstream of PLC{gamma}, PI3K, Ras-GAP, and/or SHP-2 signaling.

To determine which tyrosine residue is responsible for the activation of sphingosine kinase, we used PDGFR selectively mutated in only one or two tyrosines. Cells expressing PDGFR mutated in positions 740/751 (F740/751) and 1009 (F1009), which fail to associate with PI3K and SHP-2, respectively, still retained the ability to stimulate sphingosine kinase when activated by PDGF-BB (Fig. 2A ). In contrast, F1021, which is impaired in its association with PLC{gamma}, was unable to activate sphingosine kinase (Fig. 2A ). These mutants all had intact PDGFR tyrosine kinase activity because they were phosphorylated to a similar extent as the wild-type receptor (Fig. 2B ). Thus, it seems that the tyrosine kinase activity of the PDGFR per se is not sufficient for activation of sphingosine kinase and that autophosphorylation of the receptor on the specific tyrosine residue responsible for its association with PLC{gamma} is critical.

The PLC{gamma} binding site of PDGFR is required for stimulation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF
To further assess the role of tyrosine-1021 in activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF-BB and to study whether cross talk with other signaling pathways also contributes to its activation, we used `add back' mutants (4) , another series of mutants that are obtained by restoring individual tyrosine residues of the F5 mutant (4) . We found that replacement of only phenylalanine in position 1021 by tyrosine is sufficient to restore most of the activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF, indicating that the absence of the remainder of the other signals is not crucial for this response (Fig. 3 ). In agreement with previous reports (4 , 22 , 23) , mutation of tyrosine-1021 greatly impaired the ability of PDGF to induce proliferation (data not shown). Although phosphorylation of tyrosine-1021 is specifically required for association with PLC{gamma}, it is also possible that other proteins bind to the same site on the receptor. Thus, if sphingosine kinase associates directly or indirectly with phosphorylated tyrosine-1021 upon activation, it should coimmunoprecipitate with PDGFR. However, immunoprecipitation of lysates from cells expressing wild-type PDGFR with phospho-tyrosine antibody did not coprecipitate sphingosine kinase activity after treatment of the cells with PDGF, suggesting that sphingosine kinase may not be a substrate of the PDGFR tyrosine kinase and that its activation does not involve physical association with PDGFR.



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Figure 3. Effect of PDGF on sphingosine kinase activity in TRMP cells expressing `add-back' PDGFR mutants. TRMP cells expressing wild-type PDGFR (WT), PDGFR with five point mutations (F5), or the `add-back' mutants were incubated for 10 min without (empty bars) or with (filled bars) PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml) and sphingosine kinase activity was determined. Data are the means ± SD of triplicate determinations from a representative experiment. Similar results were obtained in at least three additional experiments. The effects of PDGF on sphingosine kinase activity were significantly different from unstimulated cells only in WT and Y1021 cells, as determined by Student's t test (P<0.01). The lower panel is a schematic representation of the `add-back' mutants. The signal transduction enzymes that bind to the phosphorylated receptor are indicated. The filled circles represent tyrosine to phenylalanine mutations and intact phosphorylation sites are represented by open circles. WT, wild-type ßPDGFR, F5 contains tyrosine to phenylalanine substitutions at tyrosines 740, 751, 771, 1009, and 1021. The names of the members of the mutant series designate which of the phosphorylation sites have been repaired. Y740/751 contains tyrosines at positions 740 and 751 but phenylalanines at the other three phosphorylation sites, whereas Y771 contains tyrosine at position 771 but phenylalanines at the other four phosphorylation sites, etc.

Calcium mobilization but not activation of PKC is required for PDGF-induced stimulation of sphingosine kinase
Another possibility is that activation of sphingosine kinase occurs as a consequence of a downstream signal of PLC{gamma}. PLC{gamma} activation results in the formation of the second messenger InsP3, which mobilizes calcium from internal sources, and diacylglycerol (DAG), which activates PKC. U73122 is generally used as a selective inhibitor of PLC and the related rise in cytosolic free Ca2+. Pre-exposure of cells to U73122 abolished activation of sphingosine kinase induced by PDGF (Fig. 4 A), suggesting that PLC{gamma} activity may be required. Surprisingly, U73343, an inactive analog, also inhibited PDGF-stimulated sphingosine kinase activity (data not shown). Similarly, it has recently been shown that U73122 and U73343 inhibit receptor-mediated PLD activation downstream of PLC in CHO cells (26) . Moreover, it has been suggested that the effect of U73122 may be mediated by effects on calcium, since U73122 is more potent in antagonizing Ca2+ channels: intracellular channels, which are activated by formation of InsP3, and those present on the plasma membrane (27) .



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Figure 4. Inhibition of PLC and calcium mobilization block PDGF-stimulated sphingosine kinase activity. TRMP cells expressing wild-type ßPDGFR were incubated with A) 5 µM U73122 for 10 min, B) 2 µM thapsigargin in the presence of 2.5 mM EGTA or 20 µM BAPTA-AM for 30 min, then stimulated for 10 min with vehicle (open bars) or PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml) (filled bars), and sphingosine kinase activity was determined. Data are the means ± SD of triplicate determinations. Similar results were obtained in at least three additional experiments. U73122 and BAPTA-AM had no significant effect on basal activity but inhibited the PDGF-stimulated increase in sphingosine kinase activity as determined by Student's t test (P<0.05 and P<0.05, respectively), whereas thapsigargin alone significantly stimulated sphingosine kinase activity (P<0.01) .

A useful approach to study the involvement of intracellular calcium sources is to deplete the pools by a mechanism independent of receptor activation and the generation of InsP3, such as inhibiting calcium-sequestering ATPases. Thapsigargin is an irreversible inhibitor of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase, but does not inhibit the plasmalemmal enzyme and is frequently used to deplete select intracellular calcium pools (28) . Thapsigargin itself stimulated sphingosine kinase activity, probably due to its ability to induce a slow increase in [Ca2+]i (6) . However, there was no further increase in sphingosine kinase activity in the presence of PDGF (Fig. 4B ). The binding of intracellular free Ca2+ by BAPTA-AM inhibited PDGF-stimulated sphingosine kinase activity (Fig. 4B ), suggesting that a rapid rise in cytosolic free calcium plays an important role in stimulation of sphingosine kinase activity. In agreement, calcium ionophores stimulate sphingosine kinase activity (data not shown).

Calcium mobilization, together with DAG, contributes to the activation of cPKC (29) . PKC has been shown to activate sphingosine kinase with concomitant increases in SPP levels in a number of cell systems (9 , 11 , 12 , 16 , 20) . Moreover, inhibition of PKC markedly reduced sphingosine kinase activity and the apoptosis-sparing effect of vitamin D3 (16) . Therefore, activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF might also involve PKC. Prolonged exposure of cells to TPA, a functional analog of DAG, down-regulates the PKC isoforms that are stimulated by DAG while having a much smaller effect on DAG-insensitive PKC family members (29) . Chronic treatment with TPA had only a small effect on the ability of PDGF to stimulate sphingosine kinase (Fig. 5 A), but completely eliminated the ability of TPA to activate sphingosine kinase (data not shown). In contrast, it has previously been shown that TPA pretreatment in these cells led to a complete loss of PDGF-activated phospholipase D activity (30) . We also used a panel of commercially available inhibitors of PKC, including the bisindolylmaleimide GF 109203X, 1-(5-isoquinolinysulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H7), chelerythrine chloride, and calphostin C. When cells were treated with these inhibitors before PDGF stimulation, sphingosine kinase was still activated (Fig. 5B ), whereas they blocked sphingosine kinase activation induced by TPA (data not shown). Although H7 inhibits other kinases as well as PKC, the other inhibitors appear to be more specific for PKC. Moreover, bisindolylmaleimide, which shows high selectivity for calcium- and DAG-dependent PKCs (cPKC), did not impair the activation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF, but completely blocked the activation of sphingosine kinase by TPA (Fig. 5C ) and TPA-induced activation of PKC (Fig. 5D ). Thus, activation of cPKC may not be required for PDGF to stimulate sphingosine kinase.



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Figure 5. Effect of PKC on PDGF-induced activation of sphingosine kinase. A) TRMP cells expressing wild-type ßPDGFR were incubated for 24 h in the absence (none) or presence of 1 µM TPA. Cells were washed thoroughly, stimulated for 10 min with vehicle (open bars) or PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml, filled bars), and sphingosine kinase activity was determined. B) Cells were treated for 10 min with the indicated PKC inhibitors, H7 (10 µM), chelerythrine chloride (5 µM), or calphostin C (0.2 µM), treated for 10 min with vehicle (open bars) or PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml, filled bars), and sphingosine kinase activity was measured. C) Cells were incubated for 10 min with bisindoylmaleimide (0.5 µM, filled bars) prior to stimulation with vehicle (open bars), PDGF-BB (50 ng/ml), or TPA (100 nM) for 10 min and cytosolic sphingosine kinase activity was measured. D) Cells were incubated for 10 min with bisindoylmaleimide (0.5 µM, filled bars) prior to stimulation with vehicle (open bars) or TPA (100 nM) for 10 min and membrane-associated PKC activity was determined.


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Our data suggest that the tyrosine residue responsible for binding of PLC{gamma} (tyrosine-1021) to ßPDGFR is required for PDGF-induced activation of sphingosine kinase, the enzyme that regulates the levels of the intracellular second messenger SPP. Downstream of PLC-{gamma}, calcium mobilization (but not PKC activation) appears to be required for stimulation of sphingosine kinase by PDGF. Tyrosine-1021 has also been shown to be required for PDGF-induced activation of PLD leading to formation of another lipid second messenger, phosphatidic acid; but in contrast to sphingosine kinase activation, phosphatidic acid formation was dependent on PKC activation (30) . Thus, it is not surprising that this residue is critically important for cellular proliferation and transformation induced by PDGF (22 , 23) , since it is important for formation of a myriad of second messengers. Although PLC{gamma} activation is sufficient by itself to induce cellular proliferation, PKC might not be involved since TPA does not stimulate proliferation of TRMP cells, yet markedly stimulates PKC (4) . The results presented here suggest that SPP might be the missing link between activation of PLC{gamma} and cellular proliferation induced by PDGF. Since SPP itself can release calcium from intracellular sources, leading to an influx of extracellular calcium, sphingosine kinase activation may represent a mechanism of amplification of calcium-related signals to ensure long-term cell proliferation. SPP induces calcium release from both InsP3-sensitive and -insensitive pools (6) , thereby further enhancing calcium mobilization in response to PDGF. In support of this conclusion, a recent study demonstrated that PDGF-induced calcium entry does not require InsP3-mediated release of intracellular calcium stores and that PDGF causes substantially more calcium entry than InsP3 alone (31) . Both calcium entry and intracellular calcium release were absent in Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing a PDGFR mutant that fails to bind PLC{gamma} (31) . These results suggest the existence of a second messenger downstream of PLC{gamma} other than InsP3 that probably plays a role in PDGF-mediated calcium entry. It is tempting to speculate that SPP might be this additional second messenger. Furthermore, a recent study demonstrated that sphingosine directly blocks calcium release-activated calcium current (ICRAC) (32) , and it has been suggested that upon mobilization of internal calcium stores, conversion of sphingosine to SPP by activation of sphingosine kinase lowers sphingosine levels and leads to the disinhibition of ICRAC. The recent cloning of sphingosine kinase (33) should help in understanding cross talk between different signaling pathways regulated by PDGF that are important for calcium homeostasis and cellular proliferation.


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This work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (CA61774) and from the American Cancer Society (BE-275) to S.S. A.O. was supported in part by a grant in add from the Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area.


   FOOTNOTES
 
2 Abbreviations: BSA, bovine serum albumin; DAG, diacylglycerol; D,L-threo-DHS, D,L-threo-dihydrosphingosine; DMS, N,N-dimethylsphingosine; EDTA, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; EGF, epidermal growth factor; EGTA, ethylene glycol-bis(b-aminoethyl ether) N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid; ERK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase; InsP3, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate; ICRAC, calcium release-activated calcium current; PBS, phosphate-buffered saline; Sph, sphingosine; SPP, sphingosine-1-phosphate; PDGF, platelet-derived growth factor; ßPDGFR, platelet-derived growth factor ß receptor; PI-3 kinase, phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase; PKC, protein kinase C; PLC, phospholipase C; PMSF, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride; TLC, thin-layer chromatography; TPA, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate; WT, wild-type.

Received for publication December 16, 1998. Revised for publication March 29, 1999.


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