Skip to main content
The Journal of Clinical Investigation logoLink to The Journal of Clinical Investigation
. 1998 Aug 15;102(4):716–727. doi: 10.1172/JCI1002

Lysophosphatidic acid is a major serum noncytokine survival factor for murine macrophages which acts via the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling pathway.

J S Koh 1, W Lieberthal 1, S Heydrick 1, J S Levine 1
PMCID: PMC508934  PMID: 9710440

Abstract

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is the smallest and structurally simplest of all the glycerophospholipids. It occurs normally in serum and binds with high affinity to albumin, while retaining its biological activity. The effects of LPA are pleiotropic and range from mitogenesis to stress fiber formation. We show a novel role for LPA: as a macrophage survival factor with potency equivalent to serum. Administration of LPA protects macrophages from apoptosis induced by serum deprivation, and protection is equivalent to that with conventional survival factors such as macrophage colony stimulating factor. The ability of LPA to act as a survival factor is mediated by the lipid kinase phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), since LPA activated both the p85-p110 and p110gamma isoforms of PI3K and macrophage survival was blocked completely by wortmannin or LY294002, two mechanistically dissimilar inhibitors of PI3K. pp70(s6k), a downstream kinase activated by PI3K, also contributes to survival, because inhibitors of pp70(s6k), such as rapamycin, blocked macrophage survival in the presence of LPA. Modified forms of LPA and phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, had no survival effect, thereby showing the specificity of LPA. These results show that LPA acts as a potent macrophage survival factor. Based on striking similarities between our LPA and serum data, we suggest that LPA is a major noncytokine survival factor in serum.

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (498.4 KB).

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Akimoto K., Takahashi R., Moriya S., Nishioka N., Takayanagi J., Kimura K., Fukui Y., Osada S. i., Mizuno K., Hirai S. i. EGF or PDGF receptors activate atypical PKClambda through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. EMBO J. 1996 Feb 15;15(4):788–798. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Becker S., Warren M. K., Haskill S. Colony-stimulating factor-induced monocyte survival and differentiation into macrophages in serum-free cultures. J Immunol. 1987 Dec 1;139(11):3703–3709. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Beg A. A., Baltimore D. An essential role for NF-kappaB in preventing TNF-alpha-induced cell death. Science. 1996 Nov 1;274(5288):782–784. doi: 10.1126/science.274.5288.782. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Benton A. M., Gerrard J. M., Michiel T., Kindom S. E. Are lysophosphatidic acids or phosphatidic acids involved in stimulus activation coupling in platelets? Blood. 1982 Sep;60(3):642–649. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Betsholtz C., Johnsson A., Heldin C. H., Westermark B. Efficient reversion of simian sarcoma virus-transformation and inhibition of growth factor-induced mitogenesis by suramin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1986 Sep;83(17):6440–6444. doi: 10.1073/pnas.83.17.6440. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Brown E. J., Beal P. A., Keith C. T., Chen J., Shin T. B., Schreiber S. L. Control of p70 s6 kinase by kinase activity of FRAP in vivo. Nature. 1995 Oct 5;377(6548):441–446. doi: 10.1038/377441a0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Burgering B. M., Coffer P. J. Protein kinase B (c-Akt) in phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase signal transduction. Nature. 1995 Aug 17;376(6541):599–602. doi: 10.1038/376599a0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Burleson R. L., Jones D. B., Yenikomshian A. M., Cornwall C., DeVoe C., DeRito J. Clinical renal preservation by cryoperfusion with an albumin perfusate: renal perfusion with albumin. Arch Surg. 1978 Jun;113(6):688–692. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1978.01370180030003. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. Carpenter C. L., Cantley L. C. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase and the regulation of cell growth. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1996 Aug 8;1288(1):M11–M16. doi: 10.1016/0304-419x(96)00018-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. Chen H. C., Appeddu P. A., Isoda H., Guan J. L. Phosphorylation of tyrosine 397 in focal adhesion kinase is required for binding phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. J Biol Chem. 1996 Oct 18;271(42):26329–26334. doi: 10.1074/jbc.271.42.26329. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. Chong L. D., Traynor-Kaplan A., Bokoch G. M., Schwartz M. A. The small GTP-binding protein Rho regulates a phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase in mammalian cells. Cell. 1994 Nov 4;79(3):507–513. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90259-3. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. Chou M. M., Blenis J. The 70 kDa S6 kinase: regulation of a kinase with multiple roles in mitogenic signalling. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1995 Dec;7(6):806–814. doi: 10.1016/0955-0674(95)80064-6. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  13. Chung J., Kuo C. J., Crabtree G. R., Blenis J. Rapamycin-FKBP specifically blocks growth-dependent activation of and signaling by the 70 kd S6 protein kinases. Cell. 1992 Jun 26;69(7):1227–1236. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90643-q. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  14. Datta S. R., Dudek H., Tao X., Masters S., Fu H., Gotoh Y., Greenberg M. E. Akt phosphorylation of BAD couples survival signals to the cell-intrinsic death machinery. Cell. 1997 Oct 17;91(2):231–241. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80405-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  15. Dudek H., Datta S. R., Franke T. F., Birnbaum M. J., Yao R., Cooper G. M., Segal R. A., Kaplan D. R., Greenberg M. E. Regulation of neuronal survival by the serine-threonine protein kinase Akt. Science. 1997 Jan 31;275(5300):661–665. doi: 10.1126/science.275.5300.661. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  16. Duke R. C., Cohen J. J. IL-2 addiction: withdrawal of growth factor activates a suicide program in dependent T cells. Lymphokine Res. 1986 Fall;5(4):289–299. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  17. Eichholtz T., Jalink K., Fahrenfort I., Moolenaar W. H. The bioactive phospholipid lysophosphatidic acid is released from activated platelets. Biochem J. 1993 May 1;291(Pt 3):677–680. doi: 10.1042/bj2910677. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  18. Evan G. I., Wyllie A. H., Gilbert C. S., Littlewood T. D., Land H., Brooks M., Waters C. M., Penn L. Z., Hancock D. C. Induction of apoptosis in fibroblasts by c-myc protein. Cell. 1992 Apr 3;69(1):119–128. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90123-t. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  19. Franke T. F., Yang S. I., Chan T. O., Datta K., Kazlauskas A., Morrison D. K., Kaplan D. R., Tsichlis P. N. The protein kinase encoded by the Akt proto-oncogene is a target of the PDGF-activated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. Cell. 1995 Jun 2;81(5):727–736. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90534-0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  20. Frisch S. M., Ruoslahti E. Integrins and anoikis. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1997 Oct;9(5):701–706. doi: 10.1016/s0955-0674(97)80124-x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  21. Goldstein J. L., Basu S. K., Brown M. S. Receptor-mediated endocytosis of low-density lipoprotein in cultured cells. Methods Enzymol. 1983;98:241–260. doi: 10.1016/0076-6879(83)98152-1. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  22. Grammer T. C., Blenis J. The serine protease inhibitors, tosylphenylalanine chloromethyl ketone and tosyllysine chloromethyl ketone, potently inhibit pp70s6k activation. J Biol Chem. 1996 Sep 27;271(39):23650–23652. doi: 10.1074/jbc.271.39.23650. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  23. Guilbert L. J., Iscove N. N. Partial replacement of serum by selenite, transferrin, albumin and lecithin in haemopoietic cell cultures. Nature. 1976 Oct 14;263(5578):594–595. doi: 10.1038/263594a0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  24. Guo Z., Liliom K., Fischer D. J., Bathurst I. C., Tomei L. D., Kiefer M. C., Tigyi G. Molecular cloning of a high-affinity receptor for the growth factor-like lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid from Xenopus oocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Dec 10;93(25):14367–14372. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.25.14367. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  25. Hecht J. H., Weiner J. A., Post S. R., Chun J. Ventricular zone gene-1 (vzg-1) encodes a lysophosphatidic acid receptor expressed in neurogenic regions of the developing cerebral cortex. J Cell Biol. 1996 Nov;135(4):1071–1083. doi: 10.1083/jcb.135.4.1071. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  26. Jalink K., Hordijk P. L., Moolenaar W. H. Growth factor-like effects of lysophosphatidic acid, a novel lipid mediator. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1994 Dec 30;1198(2-3):185–196. doi: 10.1016/0304-419x(94)90013-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  27. Jalink K., van Corven E. J., Moolenaar W. H. Lysophosphatidic acid, but not phosphatidic acid, is a potent Ca2(+)-mobilizing stimulus for fibroblasts. Evidence for an extracellular site of action. J Biol Chem. 1990 Jul 25;265(21):12232–12239. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  28. Jefferies H. B., Reinhard C., Kozma S. C., Thomas G. Rapamycin selectively represses translation of the "polypyrimidine tract" mRNA family. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 May 10;91(10):4441–4445. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.10.4441. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  29. Khwaja A., Rodriguez-Viciana P., Wennström S., Warne P. H., Downward J. Matrix adhesion and Ras transformation both activate a phosphoinositide 3-OH kinase and protein kinase B/Akt cellular survival pathway. EMBO J. 1997 May 15;16(10):2783–2793. doi: 10.1093/emboj/16.10.2783. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  30. Kumagai N., Morii N., Fujisawa K., Nemoto Y., Narumiya S. ADP-ribosylation of rho p21 inhibits lysophosphatidic acid-induced protein tyrosine phosphorylation and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation in cultured Swiss 3T3 cells. J Biol Chem. 1993 Nov 25;268(33):24535–24538. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  31. Levine J. S., Pugh B. J., Hartwell D., Fitzpatrick J. M., Marshak-Rothstein A., Beller D. I. Interleukin-1 dysregulation is an intrinsic defect in macrophages from MRL autoimmune-prone mice. Eur J Immunol. 1993 Nov;23(11):2951–2958. doi: 10.1002/eji.1830231134. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  32. Lieberthal W., Levine J. S. Mechanisms of apoptosis and its potential role in renal tubular epithelial cell injury. Am J Physiol. 1996 Sep;271(3 Pt 2):F477–F488. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.1996.271.3.F477. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  33. Lin T. H., Chen Q., Howe A., Juliano R. L. Cell anchorage permits efficient signal transduction between ras and its downstream kinases. J Biol Chem. 1997 Apr 4;272(14):8849–8852. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  34. Lopez-Ilasaca M., Crespo P., Pellici P. G., Gutkind J. S., Wetzker R. Linkage of G protein-coupled receptors to the MAPK signaling pathway through PI 3-kinase gamma. Science. 1997 Jan 17;275(5298):394–397. doi: 10.1126/science.275.5298.394. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  35. Lornage J., Guerin J. F., Czyba J. C., Menezo Y. Influence of cations and albumin on human spermatozoa. Arch Androl. 1983 May;10(2):119–125. doi: 10.3109/01485018308987552. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  36. Majno G., Joris I. Apoptosis, oncosis, and necrosis. An overview of cell death. Am J Pathol. 1995 Jan;146(1):3–15. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  37. Mangan D. F., Welch G. R., Wahl S. M. Lipopolysaccharide, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and IL-1 beta prevent programmed cell death (apoptosis) in human peripheral blood monocytes. J Immunol. 1991 Mar 1;146(5):1541–1546. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  38. McNamee H. P., Ingber D. E., Schwartz M. A. Adhesion to fibronectin stimulates inositol lipid synthesis and enhances PDGF-induced inositol lipid breakdown. J Cell Biol. 1993 May;121(3):673–678. doi: 10.1083/jcb.121.3.673. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  39. Minshall C., Arkins S., Freund G. G., Kelley K. W. Requirement for phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase to protect hemopoietic progenitors against apoptosis depends upon the extracellular survival factor. J Immunol. 1996 Feb 1;156(3):939–947. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  40. Moolenaar W. H. Lysophosphatidic acid signalling. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1995 Apr;7(2):203–210. doi: 10.1016/0955-0674(95)80029-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  41. Moolenaar W. H. Lysophosphatidic acid, a multifunctional phospholipid messenger. J Biol Chem. 1995 Jun 2;270(22):12949–12952. doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.22.12949. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  42. Naito M., Umeda S., Yamamoto T., Moriyama H., Umezu H., Hasegawa G., Usuda H., Shultz L. D., Takahashi K. Development, differentiation, and phenotypic heterogeneity of murine tissue macrophages. J Leukoc Biol. 1996 Feb;59(2):133–138. doi: 10.1002/jlb.59.2.133. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  43. Price B. E., Rauch J., Shia M. A., Walsh M. T., Lieberthal W., Gilligan H. M., O'Laughlin T., Koh J. S., Levine J. S. Anti-phospholipid autoantibodies bind to apoptotic, but not viable, thymocytes in a beta 2-glycoprotein I-dependent manner. J Immunol. 1996 Sep 1;157(5):2201–2208. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  44. Raff M. C. Social controls on cell survival and cell death. Nature. 1992 Apr 2;356(6368):397–400. doi: 10.1038/356397a0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  45. Ridley A. J., Hall A. The small GTP-binding protein rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in response to growth factors. Cell. 1992 Aug 7;70(3):389–399. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90163-7. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  46. Rodriguez-Viciana P., Warne P. H., Dhand R., Vanhaesebroeck B., Gout I., Fry M. J., Waterfield M. D., Downward J. Phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase as a direct target of Ras. Nature. 1994 Aug 18;370(6490):527–532. doi: 10.1038/370527a0. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  47. Savill J., Fadok V., Henson P., Haslett C. Phagocyte recognition of cells undergoing apoptosis. Immunol Today. 1993 Mar;14(3):131–136. doi: 10.1016/0167-5699(93)90215-7. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  48. Shi Y., Frankel A., Radvanyi L. G., Penn L. Z., Miller R. G., Mills G. B. Rapamycin enhances apoptosis and increases sensitivity to cisplatin in vitro. Cancer Res. 1995 May 1;55(9):1982–1988. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  49. Steller H. Mechanisms and genes of cellular suicide. Science. 1995 Mar 10;267(5203):1445–1449. doi: 10.1126/science.7878463. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  50. Stephens L., Smrcka A., Cooke F. T., Jackson T. R., Sternweis P. C., Hawkins P. T. A novel phosphoinositide 3 kinase activity in myeloid-derived cells is activated by G protein beta gamma subunits. Cell. 1994 Apr 8;77(1):83–93. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90237-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  51. Stoyanov B., Volinia S., Hanck T., Rubio I., Loubtchenkov M., Malek D., Stoyanova S., Vanhaesebroeck B., Dhand R., Nürnberg B. Cloning and characterization of a G protein-activated human phosphoinositide-3 kinase. Science. 1995 Aug 4;269(5224):690–693. doi: 10.1126/science.7624799. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  52. Thomason P. A., James S. R., Casey P. J., Downes C. P. A G-protein beta gamma-subunit-responsive phosphoinositide 3-kinase activity in human platelet cytosol. J Biol Chem. 1994 Jun 17;269(24):16525–16528. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  53. Thompson E. B. Apoptosis and steroid hormones. Mol Endocrinol. 1994 Jun;8(6):665–673. doi: 10.1210/mend.8.6.7935482. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  54. Thomson F. J., Perkins L., Ahern D., Clark M. Identification and characterization of a lysophosphatidic acid receptor. Mol Pharmacol. 1994 Apr;45(4):718–723. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  55. Thumser A. E., Voysey J. E., Wilton D. C. The binding of lysophospholipids to rat liver fatty acid-binding protein and albumin. Biochem J. 1994 Aug 1;301(Pt 3):801–806. doi: 10.1042/bj3010801. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  56. Tigyi G., Dyer D. L., Miledi R. Lysophosphatidic acid possesses dual action in cell proliferation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 Mar 1;91(5):1908–1912. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.5.1908. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  57. Tigyi G., Miledi R. Lysophosphatidates bound to serum albumin activate membrane currents in Xenopus oocytes and neurite retraction in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. J Biol Chem. 1992 Oct 25;267(30):21360–21367. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  58. Toker A., Cantley L. C. Signalling through the lipid products of phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase. Nature. 1997 Jun 12;387(6634):673–676. doi: 10.1038/42648. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  59. Toker A., Meyer M., Reddy K. K., Falck J. R., Aneja R., Aneja S., Parra A., Burns D. J., Ballas L. M., Cantley L. C. Activation of protein kinase C family members by the novel polyphosphoinositides PtdIns-3,4-P2 and PtdIns-3,4,5-P3. J Biol Chem. 1994 Dec 23;269(51):32358–32367. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  60. Tokumura A., Iimori M., Nishioka Y., Kitahara M., Sakashita M., Tanaka S. Lysophosphatidic acids induce proliferation of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells from rat aorta. Am J Physiol. 1994 Jul;267(1 Pt 1):C204–C210. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.1994.267.1.C204. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  61. Ui M., Okada T., Hazeki K., Hazeki O. Wortmannin as a unique probe for an intracellular signalling protein, phosphoinositide 3-kinase. Trends Biochem Sci. 1995 Aug;20(8):303–307. doi: 10.1016/s0968-0004(00)89056-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  62. Van Antwerp D. J., Martin S. J., Kafri T., Green D. R., Verma I. M. Suppression of TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis by NF-kappaB. Science. 1996 Nov 1;274(5288):787–789. doi: 10.1126/science.274.5288.787. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  63. Vlahos C. J., Matter W. F., Hui K. Y., Brown R. F. A specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, 2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one (LY294002). J Biol Chem. 1994 Feb 18;269(7):5241–5248. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  64. Wang C. Y., Mayo M. W., Baldwin A. S., Jr TNF- and cancer therapy-induced apoptosis: potentiation by inhibition of NF-kappaB. Science. 1996 Nov 1;274(5288):784–787. doi: 10.1126/science.274.5288.784. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  65. Weng Q. P., Andrabi K., Klippel A., Kozlowski M. T., Williams L. T., Avruch J. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signals activation of p70 S6 kinase in situ through site-specific p70 phosphorylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Jun 6;92(12):5744–5748. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.12.5744. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  66. Yao R., Cooper G. M. Requirement for phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase in the prevention of apoptosis by nerve growth factor. Science. 1995 Mar 31;267(5206):2003–2006. doi: 10.1126/science.7701324. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  67. Zamorano J., Wang H. Y., Wang L. M., Pierce J. H., Keegan A. D. IL-4 protects cells from apoptosis via the insulin receptor substrate pathway and a second independent signaling pathway. J Immunol. 1996 Dec 1;157(11):4926–4934. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  68. Zhang J., Zhang J., Benovic J. L., Sugai M., Wetzker R., Gout I., Rittenhouse S. E. Sequestration of a G-protein beta gamma subunit or ADP-ribosylation of Rho can inhibit thrombin-induced activation of platelet phosphoinositide 3-kinases. J Biol Chem. 1995 Mar 24;270(12):6589–6594. doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.12.6589. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  69. del Peso L., González-García M., Page C., Herrera R., Nuñez G. Interleukin-3-induced phosphorylation of BAD through the protein kinase Akt. Science. 1997 Oct 24;278(5338):687–689. doi: 10.1126/science.278.5338.687. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  70. van Corven E. J., Groenink A., Jalink K., Eichholtz T., Moolenaar W. H. Lysophosphatidate-induced cell proliferation: identification and dissection of signaling pathways mediated by G proteins. Cell. 1989 Oct 6;59(1):45–54. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90868-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  71. van Corven E. J., van Rijswijk A., Jalink K., van der Bend R. L., van Blitterswijk W. J., Moolenaar W. H. Mitogenic action of lysophosphatidic acid and phosphatidic acid on fibroblasts. Dependence on acyl-chain length and inhibition by suramin. Biochem J. 1992 Jan 1;281(Pt 1):163–169. doi: 10.1042/bj2810163. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  72. van der Bend R. L., Brunner J., Jalink K., van Corven E. J., Moolenaar W. H., van Blitterswijk W. J. Identification of a putative membrane receptor for the bioactive phospholipid, lysophosphatidic acid. EMBO J. 1992 Jul;11(7):2495–2501. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05314.x. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Journal of Clinical Investigation are provided here courtesy of American Society for Clinical Investigation

RESOURCES