Volume 272, Number 18,
Issue of May 2, 1997
pp. 11968-11974
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
CSF-1 Receptor/Insulin Receptor Chimera Permits
CSF-1-dependent Differentiation of 3T3-L1
Preadipocytes
(Received for publication, January 17, 1997, and in revised form, February 21, 1997)
Oleg V.
Chaika
,
Nina
Chaika
,
Deanna J.
Volle
,
Peter A.
Wilden
§
,
Samuel J.
Pirrucello
¶
and
Robert E.
Lewis
¶
From the
Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and
Allied Diseases, Departments of
Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology and ¶ Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska
Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6805 and § Department
of Pharmacology, University of Missouri School of Medicine,
Columbia, Missouri 65212
A chimeric growth factor receptor (CSF1R/IR) was
constructed by splicing cDNA sequences encoding the extracellular
ligand binding domain of the human colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) receptor to sequences encoding the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of the human insulin receptor. The addition of CSF-1 to cells
transfected with the CSF1R/IR chimera cDNA stimulated the tyrosine
phosphorylation of a protein that was immunoprecipitated by an antibody
directed against the carboxyl terminus of the insulin receptor.
Phosphopeptide maps of the 32P-labeled CSF1R/IR
protein revealed the same pattern of phosphorylation observed in
32P-labeled insulin receptor
subunits. CSF-1 stimulated
the tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1)
and Shc in cells expressing the CSF1R/IR chimera. Lipid accumulation
and the expression of a differentiation-specific marker demonstrated that 3T3-L1 preadipocytes undergo CSF-1-dependent
differentiation when transfected with the CSF1R/IR chimera cDNA but
not when transfected with the expression vector alone. A 12-amino acid
deletion within the juxtamembrane region of the CSF1R/IR
(CSF1R/IR
960) blocked CSF-1-stimulated phosphorylation of IRS-1 and
Shc but did not inhibit CSF-1-mediated differentiation of 3T3-L1
preadipocytes. These observations indicate that adipocyte
differentiation can be initiated by intracellular pathways that do not
require tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 or Shc.