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Analysis of Cell Cycle Position in Mammalian Cells
Published on: January 21, 2012
Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor abrogates transforming growth factor-beta 1-mediated cell cycle
F Ohtsuki1, M Yamamoto, T Nakagawa
1Department of Paediatrics, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan.
Abstract:
The role of positive and negative cytokine interactions in G1 cell cycle regulation of haemopoietic cells was analysed by determination of the expression patterns of D-type cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) in SKM-1 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) cells incubated with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and/or transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1). TGF-beta 1 inhibited SKM-1 cell proliferation due to the cell cycle arrest in G1 phase. GM-CSF abrogated the TGF-beta 1-mediated G1 arrest in these cells. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis indicated that TGF-beta 1-mediated G1 arrest correlated with the down-regulation of cdk4, cdk6 and cyclin D2, and that abrogation of TGF-beta 1-mediated G1 arrest by GM-CSF correlated with the constitutive over-expression of cyclin D2 and cdk6 but not cdk4. These results suggest the importance of cyclin D2/cdk6 levels in abrogating G1 arrest in cells exposed to TGF-beta 1, and raise the possibility that the GM-CSF-mediated up-regulatory pathway of signal transduction through cyclin D2/cdk6 differs from the TGF-beta 1-cdk4-mediated pathway in SKM-1 cells. This signal transduction pathway through cyclin D2/cdk6 might play an important role in haemopoietic regulation by the cytokine network.
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