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. 1993 Apr;12(4):1647–1656. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1993.tb05810.x

The human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor is capable of initiating signal transduction in NIH3T3 cells.

M Eder 1, J D Griffin 1, T J Ernst 1
PMCID: PMC413379  PMID: 7682177

Abstract

The ability of the receptor for the hematopoietic cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to function in non-hematopoietic cells is unknown. NIH3T3 fibroblasts were transfected with cDNAs encoding the alpha and beta subunit of the human GM-CSF receptor and a series of stable transformants were isolated that bound GM-CSF with either low (KD = 860 - > 1000 pM) or high affinity (KD = 20-80 pM). Low affinity receptors were not functional. However, the reconstituted high affinity receptors were found to be capable of activating a number of signal transduction pathways, including tyrosine kinase activity, phosphorylation of Raf-1, and the transient induction of c-fos and c-myc mRNAs. The activation of protein tyrosine phosphorylation by GM-CSF in NIH3T3 cells was rapid (< 1 min) and transient (peaking at 5-20 min) and resulted in the phosphorylation of proteins of estimated molecular weights of 42, 44, 52/53 and 58-60 kDa. Some of these proteins co-migrated with proteins from myeloid cells that were phosphorylated on tyrosine residues in response to GM-CSF. In particular, p42 and p44 were identified as mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAP kinases), and the phosphorylation on tyrosine residues of p42 and p44 MAP kinases occurred at the same time as the phosphorylation of Raf-1. However, despite evidence for activation of many mitogenic signal transduction molecules, GM-CSF did not induce significant proliferation of transfected NIH3T3 cells. These results suggest that murine fibroblasts contain signal transducing molecules that can effectively interact with the human GM-CSF receptor, and that are sufficient to activate at least some of the same signal transduction pathways this receptor activates in myeloid cells, including activation of one or more tyrosine kinase(s). However, the level of activation of signal transduction is either below a threshold of necessary activity or at least one mitogenic signal necessary for proliferation is missing.

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