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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M203870200 on May 8, 2002
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 29, 26335-26339, July 19, 2002
Deregulated MAPK Activity Prevents Adipocyte Differentiation
of Fibroblasts Lacking the Retinoblastoma Protein*
Jacob B.
Hansen §¶,
Rasmus K.
Petersen ¶ ,
Claus
Jørgensen , and
Karsten
Kristiansen **
From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Center for Experimental BioInformatics, University of
Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark and Rheoscience
A/S, DK-2610 Rødovre, Denmark
A functional retinoblastoma protein (pRB) is
required for adipose conversion of preadipocyte cell lines and primary
mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) in response to treatment with standard adipogenic inducers. Interestingly, lack of functional pRB in MEFs was
recently linked to elevated Ras activity. Ras-dependent signaling plays a significant, although incompletely understood, role
in adipocyte differentiation, because activated Ras has been reported
to either promote or inhibit adipogenesis depending on the
cellular context. In various cell types activation of Ras leads to
activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2), and protein kinase B (PKB)/Akt, which exert opposing effects on
adipogenesis, with ERK1/2 inhibiting and PKB/Akt promoting terminal
differentiation. Here we report that the levels of activated ERK1/2 and
PKB/Akt are significantly increased in pRB-deficient MEFs both before and after the addition of adipogenic inducers. Consistently, we detected higher levels of activated Ras in MEFs lacking pRB.
Suppression of ERK1/2 activation by the MEK inhibitor UO126 restored
the ability of pRB-deficient MEFs to undergo adipocyte differentiation,
as manifested by expression of adipocyte marker genes and lipid
accumulation. Furthermore and reflecting the elevated levels of
activated PKB/Akt in the pRB-deficient MEFs, differentiation proceeded
in an insulin-independent manner. In conclusion, we suggest that pRB
plays a pivotal role in adipogenesis by suppressing MAPK activity.
*
This work was supported by the Danish Biotechnology Program,
the Danish Cancer Society, the Danish Natural Science Research Council,
and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
§
Present address: The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of
Molecular Biology, Plesmanlaan 121, NL-1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¶
These authors contributed equally to this work.
**
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark,
Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark. Tel.: 45-65502408;
Fax: 45-65502467; E-mail: kak@bmb.sdu.dk.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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