Role of phospholipase C-γ1 in insulin-like growth factor I-induced muscle differentiation of H9c2 cardiac myoblasts

  • Feng Hong
  • , Keun ai Moon
  • , Sam Soo Kim*
  • , Young Seol Kim
  • , Young Kil Choi
  • , Yun Soo Bae
  • , Pann Ghill Suh
  • , Sung Ho Ryu
  • , Eui Ju Choi
  • , Joohun Ha
  • , Sung Soo Kim*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) regulates muscle differentiation through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase). Also it was recently reported that PI 3-kinase is involved in the activation of phospholipase C-γ1 (PLC-γ1). We investigated whether PLC-γ1 therefore plays a role in IGF-I-induced muscle differentiation using H9c2 rat cardiac myoblasts as a model. IGF-I was able to activate PLC-γ1 via both PI 3-kinase-dependent and tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent mechanisms in this model. However, PI 3-kinase appeared to play a more important role than tyrosine phosphorylation in IGF-I activation of PLC-γ1. In addition, PLC-γ1 activation was independent of Akt/protein kinase B (Akt/PKB). Importantly, PLC-γ1 was involved in IGF-I-induced muscle differentiation in parallel with Akt/PKB. Taken together, these results suggest that IGF-I regulation of muscle differentiation is dependent on the activation of PLC-γ1 and Akt/PKB, both of which are downstream mediators of PI 3-kinase.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)816-822
Number of pages7
JournalBiochemical and biophysical research communications
Volume282
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are very grateful to Dr. Julian Downward at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, United Kingdom, and Dr. Masato Kasuga at Kobe University, Japan, for providing us with vectors encoding a constitutively active (p110*) and a dominant negative (Δp85) form of PI3-kinase. Dr. Feng Hong is a recipient of fellowship provided by Korea United Pharmaceutical Inc.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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