Abstract
Inhibitors of protein-tyrosine kinases (TPKs) from the tyrphostins family induce terminal erythroid differentiation of mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cells. The most potent tyrphostin was found to be AG-568 which was therefore investigated in more detail. Just prior to differentiation the inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation of a pp97 protein band was noted. We also found that AG-568 treatment induces the appearance of a putative differentiation factor which could induce tyrphostin-independent differentiation in untreated cells. Our study suggests that the inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation by AG-568 leads to the production of differentiating factor(s) which induce the MEL cells to differentiate.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 260-264 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | FEBS Letters |
Volume | 330 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 20 Sep 1993 |