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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1999//545 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 147, Number 3, , 1999 545-558

Original Article

Sphingosine Kinase Expression Increases Intracellular Sphingosine-1-Phosphate and Promotes Cell Growth and Survival



Ana Oliveraa, Takafumi Kohamaa, Lisa Edsalla, Victor Navaa, Olivier Cuvilliera, Samantha Poultona, and Sarah Spiegela

a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia 20007
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road, N.W., Washington, DC 20007.202-687-7186202-687-1432

spiegel{at}biochem1.basic-sci.georgetown.edu

Sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP) is a bioactive lipid that has recently been identified as the ligand for the EDG family of G protein–coupled cell surface receptors. However, the mitogenic and survival effects of exogenous SPP may not correlate with binding to cell-surface receptors (Van Brocklyn, J.R., M.J. Lee, R. Menzeleev, A. Olivera, L. Edsall, O. Cuvillier, D.M. Thomas, P.J.P. Coopman, S. Thangada, T. Hla, and S. Spiegel. 1998. J. Cell Biol. 142:229–240). The recent cloning of sphingosine kinase, a unique lipid kinase responsible for the formation of SPP, has provided a new tool to investigate the role of intracellular SPP. Expression of sphingosine kinase markedly increased SPP levels in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and HEK293 cells, but no detectable secretion of SPP into the medium was observed. The increased sphingosine kinase activity in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts was sufficient to promote growth in low- serum media, expedite the G1/S transition, and increase DNA synthesis and the proportion of cells in the S phase of the cell cycle with a concomitant increase in cell numbers. Transient or stable overexpression of sphingosine kinase in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts or HEK293 cells protected against apoptosis induced by serum deprivation or ceramide elevation. N,N-Dimethylsphingosine, a competitive inhibitor of sphingosine kinase, blocked the effects of sphingosine kinase overexpression on cell proliferation and suppression of apoptosis. In contrast, pertussis toxin did not abrogate these biological responses. In Jurkat T cells, overexpression of sphingosine kinase also suppressed serum deprivation- and ceramide-induced apoptosis and, to a lesser extent, Fas-induced apoptosis, which correlated with inhibition of DEVDase activity, as well as inhibition of the executionary caspase-3. Taken together with ample evidence showing that growth and survival factors activate sphingosine kinase, our results indicate that SPP functions as a second messenger important for growth and survival of cells. Hence, SPP belongs to a novel class of lipid mediators that can function inside and outside cells.

Key Words: sphingosine kinase • sphingosine-1-phosphate • cell growth • apoptosis

© 1999 The Rockefeller University Press

1.used in this paper: Ac-DEVD-AMC, acetyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-aminomethylcoumarin; BrdU, bromodeoxyuridine; DMS, N,N-dimethylsphingosine; EDG, endothelial differentiation gene; GFP, green fluorescent protein; GPCR, G protein coupled receptors; SPHK, sphingosine kinase; SPP, sphingosine-1-phosphate; TNF, tumor necrosis factor


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