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RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

CCK-A receptor activates RhoA through G_12/13 in NIH3T3 cells

Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0622

Submitted 3 March 2003 ; accepted in final form 2 July 2003

Cholecystokinin (CCK) is a major regulator of pancreatic acinar cells and was shown previously to be capable of inducing cytoskeletal changes in these cells. In the present study, using NIH3T3 cells stably transfected with CCK-A receptors as a model cell, we demonstrate that CCK can induce actin stress fibers through a G₁₃- and RhoA-dependent mechanism. CCK induced stress fibers within minutes similar to those induced by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), the active component of serum. The effects of CCK were mimicked by active RhoV14 and blocked by dominant-negative RhoN19, Clostridium botulinum C3 transferase, and the Rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632. CCK rapidly induced active Rho in cells as shown with a pull-down assay using the Rho binding domain of rhotekin and by a serum response element (SRE)-luciferase reporter assay. To evaluate the G protein mediating the action of CCK, cells were transfected with active -subunits; G₁₃ and G₁₂ but not G_q induced stress fibers and in some cases cell rounding. A p115 Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) domain known to interact with G_12/13 inhibited active _12/13-and CCK-induced stress fibers, whereas RGS2 and RGS4, which are known to inhibit G_q, had no effect. Cotransfection with plasmids coding for the G protein -subunit carboxy-terminal peptide from ₁₃ and, to a lesser extent ₁₂, also inhibited the effect of CCK, whereas the peptide from _q did not. These results show that in NIH3T3 cells bearing CCK-A receptors, CCK activates Rho primarily through G₁₃, leading to rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton.

actin; cholecystokinin; Rho; Rho-kinase; stress fibers

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