Protein Information

Name ERK1
Synonyms ERK 1; ERK1; ERT 2; ERT2; Extracellular signal regulated kinase 1; Extracellular signal related kinase 1b; Extracellular signal related kinase 1c; HS44KDAP…

Compound Information

Name nicotine
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20106947 Chen RJ, Ho YS, Guo HR, Wang YJ: Long-term Nicotine Exposure-Induced Chemoresistance is Mediated by Activation of Stat3 and Downregulation of ERK1/2 via nAChR and beta-AR in Human Bladder Cancer Cells. Toxicol Sci. 2010 Jan 27.
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19131543 Al-Wadei HA, Plummer HK 3rd, Schuller HM: Nicotine stimulates pancreatic cancer xenografts by systemic increase in stress neurotransmitters and suppression of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid. Carcinogenesis. 2009 Mar;30(3):506-11. Epub 2009 Jan 8.

Nicotine significantly increased the systemic levels of adrenaline, noradrenaline and cAMP while increasing xenograft size and protein levels of cAMP, cyclic AMP response element-binding protein and p-extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 in the tumor tissue.
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19358273 Chipitsyna G, Gong Q, Anandanadesan R, Alnajar A, Batra SK, Wittel UA, Cullen DM, Akhter MP, Denhardt DT, Yeo CJ, Arafat HA: Induction of osteopontin expression by nicotine and cigarette smoke in the pancreas and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells. Int J Cancer. 2009 Jul 15;125(2):276-85.

Inhibition of ERK1/2 activation reduced the nicotine-induced OPN synthesis.
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19903766 Zhao J, Xin M, Wang T, Zhang Y, Deng X: Nicotine enhances the antiapoptotic function of Mcl-1 through phosphorylation. Mol Cancer Res. 2009 Dec;7(12):1954-61. Epub 2009 Nov 10.

Here, we found that nicotine induces Mcl-1 phosphorylation through activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 in association with increased chemoresistance of human lung cancer cells.
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20211606 Gubbins EJ, Gopalakrishnan M, Li J: alpha7 nAChR-mediated activation of MAP kinase pathways in PC12 cells. Brain Res. 2010 Mar 6.

Robust concentration-dependent increase in ERK1/2 phosphorylation was triggered by structurally diverse alpha7 nAChR agonists such as nicotine, choline, GTS-21, SSR-180711A and PNU-282987 in the presence of the positive allosteric modulator (PAM) PNU-120596.
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19139119 Sun X, Ritzenthaler JD, Zheng Y, Roman J, Han S: Rosiglitazone inhibits alpha4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression in human lung carcinoma cells through peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma-independent signals. Mol Cancer Ther. 2009 Jan;8(1):110-8.

We and others have shown previously that nicotine, a major component of tobacco, stimulates non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) proliferation through nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)-mediated signals.
The inhibitory effect of rosiglitazone on alpha4 nAChR expression was accompanied by phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and down-regulation of Akt phosphorylation.
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20050989 Rodella LF, Filippini F, Bonomini F, Bresciani R, Reiter RJ, Rezzani R: Beneficial effects of melatonin on nicotine-induced vasculopathy. J Pineal Res. 2009 Dec 30.

We evaluated the hydroxyproline content, and the different expression of proteins involved in several types of stress (ERK1/2), in fibrosis (TGF-beta1, NF-kappaB) and in recruitment of circulating leukocytes onto the vessel wall, including intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cellular adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1).
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19274673 Al-Wadei HA, Schuller HM: Nicotinic receptor-associated modulation of stimulatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in NNK-induced adenocarcinoma of the lungs and pancreas. J Pathol. 2009 Aug;218(4):437-45.

The nicotine-derived nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) is a potent mutagen and the most powerful tobacco carcinogen.
In contrast, protein expression of the alpha (7) nAChR, alpha (4) nAChR as well as p-CREB and p-ERK1/2 were up-regulated.
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19387337 Al-Wadei HA, Al-Wadei MH, Schuller HM: Prevention of pancreatic cancer by the beta-blocker propranolol. . Anticancer Drugs. 2009 Jul;20(6):477-82.


We have previously reported that beta-adrenergic receptors (beta-ARs) stimulate the proliferation and migration of human PDAC cells in vitro by cAMP-dependent signaling and that the nicotine-derived nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) activates this pathway directly in vitro while additionally stimulating the release of noradrenaline/adrenaline by binding to alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (alpha7 nAChR) in hamsters.
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20113502 Xu Y, Zhang Y, Cardell LO: Nicotine enhances murine airway contractile responses to kinin receptor agonists via activation of JNK- and PDE4-related intracellular pathways. Respir Res. 2010 Jan 29;11:13.

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