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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M207176200 on September 17, 2002
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 47, 44988-44995, November 22, 2002
Activation of Rac1 and the p38 Mitogen-activated Protein
Kinase Pathway in Response to Arsenic Trioxide*
Amit
Verma §,
Mani
Mohindru ,
Dilip K.
Deb§,
Antonella
Sassano §,
Suman
Kambhampati §,
Farhad
Ravandi§,
Saverio
Minucci¶,
Dhananjaya V.
Kalvakolanu , and
Leonidas C.
Platanias §**
From the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
and Section of Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, § Department of Medicine,
Section of Hematology-Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago and
West Side Veterans Affairs Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60607, ¶ Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of
Oncology, Milan 20141, Italy, and Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,
Maryland 21201
Arsenic trioxide induces differentiation
and apoptosis of malignant cells in vitro and in
vivo, but the mechanisms by which such effects occur have not
been elucidated. In the present study we provide evidence that arsenic
trioxide induces activation of the small G-protein Rac1 and the and
isoforms of the p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase in
several leukemia cell lines. Such activation of Rac1 and p38-isoforms
results in downstream engagement of the MAP kinase-activated
protein kinase-2 and is enhanced by pre-treatment of cells with
ascorbic acid. Interestingly, pharmacological inhibition of p38
potentiates arsenic-dependent apoptosis and suppression of
growth of leukemia cell lines, suggesting that this signaling cascade
negatively regulates induction of antileukemic responses by arsenic
trioxide. Consistent with this, overexpression of a dominant-negative
p38 mutant (p38 AGF) enhances the antiproliferative effects
of arsenic trioxide on target cells. To further define the relevance of
activation of the Rac1/p38 MAP kinase pathway in the induction of
arsenic-dependent antileukemic effects, studies were
performed using bone marrows from patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Arsenic trioxide suppressed the growth of leukemic myeloid (CFU-GM) progenitors from such patients, whereas concomitant
pharmacological inhibition of the p38 pathway enhanced its
growth-suppressive effects. Altogether, these data provide evidence for
a novel function of the p38 MAP kinase pathway, acting as a negative
regulator of arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis and inhibition of
malignant cell growth.
*
This work was supported by a Merit Review grant from the
Department of Veterans Affairs (to L. C. P.) and by National
Institutes of Health Grants CA77816 and CA94079 (to L. C. P.) and
CA71401 and CA78282 (to D. V. K.).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.
**
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Robert H. Lurie
Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Olson Pavilion 8250, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel.: 312-503-4267; Fax: 312-908-1372; E-mail:
l-platanias@northwestern.edu.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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