Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase
positive regulation of endothelial cell migration
Purification of human tumor cell autocrine motility factor and molecular cloning of its receptor.
Tumor autocrine motility factor (AMF) has been detected in and purified from serum-free conditioned medium of human HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cells. Under nonreducing conditions, AMF migrates in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a single band of 55 kDa but under reducing conditions as a band of 64 kDa. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified AMF resolved two groups of polypeptides with isoelectric points of 6.1 and 6.2 (majors), 6.35 and 6.4 (minors). Purified AMF stimulated HT-1080 cell migration in a dose-dependent fashion. The motility stimulation of the fibrosarcoma cells with AMF is associated with the phosphorylation of the AMF receptor, a 78-kDa cell surface glycoprotein (gp78), suggesting protein kinase participation in migratory signal transduction. The gene encoding gp78 was cloned from an HT-1080 fibrosarcoma complementary DNA library. The deduced sequence encodes a polypeptide of 323 amino acids. The nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequence of the gp78 reveals significant homology with the human suppressor/oncogene p53 protein.