Title |
Proliferative Defect and Embryonic Lethality in Mice Homozygous for a Deletion in the p110α Subunit of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase*
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Published in |
Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 1999
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DOI | 10.1074/jbc.274.16.10963 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Lei Bi, Ichiro Okabe, David J. Bernard, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Robert L. Nussbaum |
Abstract |
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate is a phospholipid signaling molecule involved in many cellular functions including growth factor receptor signaling, cytoskeletal organization, chemotaxis, apoptosis, and protein trafficking. Phosphorylation at the 3 position of the inositol ring is catalyzed by many different 3-kinases (classified as types IA, IB, II, and III), but the physiological roles played by each of the different 3-kinase isozymes during embryonic development and in homeostasis in animals is incompletely understood. Mammalian type IA kinase isozymes are heterodimers that are active at 37 degrees C when the catalytic 110-kDa subunit interacts through an amino-terminal binding domain with a regulatory 85- or 55-kDa subunit. Using gene targeting in embryonic stem cells, we deleted this binding domain in the gene encoding the alpha isoform of the 110-kDa catalytic subunit (Pik3ca) of the alpha isozyme of the type IA kinases, leading to loss of expression of the p110 catalytic subunit. We show that Pik3cadel/del embryos are developmentally delayed at embryonic day (E) 9.5 and die between E9.5 and E10.5. E9. 5 Pik3cadel/del embryos have a profound proliferative defect but no increase in apoptosis. A proliferative defect is supported by the observation that fibroblasts from Pik3cadel/del embryos fail to replicate in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium and fetal calf serum, even with supplemental growth factors. |
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