PMID- 26713735 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160701 LR - 20211203 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 12 DP - 2015 TI - Cell Signaling and Differential Protein Expression in Neuronal Differentiation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Hypermethylated Salvador/Warts/Hippo (SWH) Pathway Genes. PG - e0145542 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0145542 [doi] LID - e0145542 AB - Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) modified by targeting DNA hypermethylation of genes in the Salvador/Warts/Hippo pathway were induced to differentiate into neuronal cells in vitro. The differentiated cells secreted a significant level of brain-derived neurotrophy factor (BDNF) and the expression of BDNF receptor tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB) correlated well with the secretion of BDNF. In the differentiating cells, CREB was active after the binding of growth factors to induce phosphorylation of ERK in the MAPK/ERK pathway. Downstream of phosphorylated CREB led to the functional maturation of differentiated cells and secretion of BDNF, which contributed to the sustained expression of pERK and pCREB. In summary, both PI3K/Akt and MAPK/ERK signaling pathways play important roles in the neuronal differentiation of MSCs. The main function of the PI3K/Akt pathway is to maintain cell survival during neural differentiation; whereas the role of the MAPK/ERK pathway is probably to promote the maturation of differentiated MSCs. Further, cellular levels of protein kinase C epsilon type (PKC-epsilon) and kinesin heavy chain (KIF5B) increased with time of induction, whereas the level of NME/NM23 nucleoside diphosphate kinase 1 (Nm23-H1) decreased during the time course of differentiation. The correlation between PKC-epsilon and TrkB suggested that there is cross-talk between PKC-epsilon and the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. FAU - Tzeng, Hui-Hung AU - Tzeng HH AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Hsu, Chi-Hung AU - Hsu CH AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Chung, Ting-Hao AU - Chung TH AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Lee, Wen-Chien AU - Lee WC AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Lin, Chi-Hsien AU - Lin CH AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Wang, Wan-Chen AU - Wang WC AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Hsiao, Chen-Yu AU - Hsiao CY AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. FAU - Leu, Yu-Wei AU - Leu YW AD - Department of Life Science, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621, Taiwan. FAU - Wang, Tzu-Hsien AU - Wang TH AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology and Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung, Chiayi, 621 Taiwan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20151229 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Cell Cycle Proteins) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (LATS1 protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism MH - *Cell Differentiation MH - Cell Survival MH - *DNA Methylation MH - *Gene Expression Regulation MH - Hippo Signaling Pathway MH - Humans MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/*cytology MH - Neurons/*cytology/metabolism MH - Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism MH - *Signal Transduction PMC - PMC4699852 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2015/12/30 06:00 MHDA- 2016/07/02 06:00 PMCR- 2015/12/29 CRDT- 2015/12/30 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/12/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/12/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/12/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/07/02 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/12/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-15-37379 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0145542 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2015 Dec 29;10(12):e0145542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145542. eCollection 2015.