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Enhanced Nuclear Diacylglycerol Kinase Activity in Response to a Mitogenic Stimulation of Quiescent Swiss 3T3 Cells with Insulin-like Growth Factor I¹

Dipartimento di Morfologia Umana Normale, Università di Trieste, 34138 Trieste, Italy [A. M. M., G. T., R. Bo., R. Ba., G. B., V. G., M. Z., P. N.], and Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale, Cellular Signalling Laboratory, 40126 Bologna, Italy [L. M., L. C.]

Results from several laboratories have established the existence in the nucleus of an autonomous polyphosphoinositide cycle, which is involved in both cell proliferation and differentiation. A key step of intranuclear polyphosphoinositide metabolism is the phospholipase C-mediated generation of diacylglycerol (DAG). In insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I-stimulated Swiss 3T3 cells, a transient elevation of intranuclear DAG levels is essential for attracting the isoform of protein kinase C (PKC) to the nucleus. Previous evidence has shown that the nucleus also contains DAG kinase, i.e., the enzyme that yields phosphatidic acid from DAG, thus terminating PKC-mediated signaling events. Here we show that IGF-I treatment of quiescent Swiss 3T3 cells results in the stimulation of nuclear DAG kinase activity. Time course analysis showed an inverse relationship between nuclear DAG mass and DAG kinase activity levels. After IGF-I treatment, maximal enhancement of DAG kinase activity was measured in the internal matrix domain of the nucleus. PKC- remained within the nuclear compartment, even when nuclear DAG mass returned to basal levels. This was conceivably due to interactions with specific nuclear PKC-binding proteins, some of which were identified as lamins A, B, and C and protein C23/nucleolin. Treatment of cells with two DAG kinase inhibitors, R59022 and R59949, blocked the IGF-I-dependent rise in nuclear DAG kinase activity and maintained elevated intranuclear levels of DAG. The two inhibitors also markedly potentiated the mitogenic effect of IGF-I. These results suggest that nuclear DAG kinase plays a key role in regulating the levels of DAG present in the nucleus and that DAG is a key molecule for the mitogenic effect that IGF-I exerts on Swiss 3T3 cells.

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