The Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor CNrasGEF Regulates Melanogenesis and Cell Survival in Melanoma Cells

cAMP-dependent Ras activation has been demonstrated in numerous cell types, particularly of neuronal (including melanoma cells) and endocrine origin, but the Ras activator involved has not been identified. In B16 melanoma cells, cAMP activates the Ras/Erk pathway, leading initially to stimulation but subsequently to long term (>24-h) inhibition of melanogenesis (dendrite extension and melanin production). Here we identify CNrasGEF as the Ras guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) involved. We demonstrate that CNrasGEF is expressed endogenously in B16 melanoma cells and that cAMP-mediated activation of Ras and Erk1/2 in these cells can be augmented by CNrasGEF overexpression and reduced by its knockdown by RNA interference. Moreover, we show that CNrasGEF participates in the regulation of melanogenesis. Knockdown of CNrasGEF leads to increased dendrite extension and melanin that CNrasGEF melanogenesis in the long we that overexpression of CNrasGEF leads to its knockdown by cell of these that CNrasGEF melanogenesis but that has in cell cAMP-dependent Ras activation has been demonstrated in numerous cell types, particularly of neuronal (including melanoma cells) and endocrine origin, but the Ras activator involved has not been identified. In B16 melanoma cells, cAMP activates the Ras/Erk pathway, leading initially to stimulation but subsequently to long term (>24-h) inhibition of melanogenesis (dendrite extension and melanin production). Here we identify CNrasGEF as the Ras guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) involved. We demonstrate that CNrasGEF is expressed endogenously in B16 melanoma cells and that cAMP-mediated activation of Ras and Erk1/2 in these cells can be augmented by CNrasGEF overexpression and reduced by its knockdown by RNA interference. Moreover, we show that CNrasGEF participates in the regulation of melanogenesis. 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