We demonstrate that exposure of human epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells to epidermal growth factor (EGF) results in phosphorylation of eIF-4B within minutes after addition of EGF. The EGF-induced phosphorylation of eIF-4B is not caused by the EGF receptor tyrosine kinase itself, since no tyrosine-phosphorylated eIF-4B could be detected upon immunoprecipitation using an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. Enhanced phosphorylation of eIF-4B was also detected upon exposure of the cells to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), an activator of protein kinase C (PKC), suggesting that eIF-4B may be a substrate of PKC. However, down-regulation of PKC did not influence the EGF-induced eIF-4B phosphorylation, which indicates that eIF-4B is phosphorylated by an as yet unknown kinase, activated early in the EGF-induced signal transduction cascade.
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