scholarly journals The chemotactic factor N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine activates microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP) kinase and a MAP kinase kinase in polymorphonuclear leucocytes

1993 ◽  
Vol 290 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
H L Thompson ◽  
M Shiroo ◽  
J Saklatvala

Incubation of human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) with either the chemotactic factor N-formylmethionyl-leucylphenylalanine (FMLP) or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) activates a kinase with phosphorylating activity towards a known microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP) kinase substrate, the epidermal growth factor receptor peptide (T669). Activation of this enzyme by FMLP was maximal at 1 min, decreasing by 10 min. Activation by PMA was slightly slower than that by FMLP, but more prolonged (maximal at 5 min, with no significant decrease by 20 min). The enzyme induced by either stimulant bound strongly to phenyl-Sepharose, had a molecular mass of 40 kDa on gel filtration and phosphorylated three MAP kinase substrates, i.e. MAP, myelin basic protein and the T669 peptide. By use of antibodies to MAP kinases and phosphotyrosine, the enzyme was identified as the 42 kDa MAP kinase (also known as extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 2, ERK2). Stimulation of PMN with FMLP or PMA was also found to induce a kinase kinase which phosphorylated human recombinant MAP kinase on threonine and tyrosine, with concomitant activation. These results suggest that MAP kinase and the kinase kinase are involved in the activation of PMN by chemotactic factors such as FMLP.

2000 ◽  
Vol 345 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarete GOPPELT-STRUEBE ◽  
Stefanie FICKEL ◽  
Christian O. A. REISER

In renal mesangial cells, activation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors may increase the activity of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases and subsequently induce expression of prostaglandin G/H synthase-2 (PGHS-2, cyclo-oxygenase-2). As examples, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) were shown to transiently enhance p42/44 MAP kinase activity, which was an essential step in the induction of PGHS-2 mRNA and protein. Inhibitors of receptor kinase activities, tyrphostins AG1296 and AG1478, specifically inhibited the effects of PDGF and EGF respectively. Activation of p42/44 and p38 MAP kinases and PGHS-2 induction were also mediated by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), which binds to pertussis-toxin-sensitive G-protein-coupled receptors. LPA stimulation was inhibited by AG1296, but not AG1478, indicating involvement of the PDGF receptor kinase in LPA-mediated signalling. This was confirmed by pertussis-toxin-sensitive tyrosine phosphorylation of the PDGF receptor by LPA, whereas no phosphorylation of the EGF receptor was detected. For comparison, 5-hydroxytryptamine (‘serotonin’)-mediated signalling was only partially inhibited by AG1296, and also not affected by AG1478. A strong basal AG1296-sensitive tyrosine phosphorylation of the PDGF receptor and a set of other proteins was observed, which by itself was not sufficient to induce p42/44 MAP kinase activation, but played an essential role not only in LPA- but also in phorbol ester-mediated activation. Taken together, the PDGF receptor, but not the EGF receptor, is involved in LPA-mediated MAP kinase activation and PGHS-2 induction in primary mesangial cells, where both protein kinase receptors are present and functionally active.


1994 ◽  
Vol 302 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Kracht ◽  
M Shiroo ◽  
C J Marshall ◽  
J J Hsuan ◽  
J Saklatvala

We have isolated from KB cells stimulated with interleukin-1 (IL-1) a protein kinase that phosphorylates a peptide (T669) based on the sequence around T669 of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. The enzyme, which had an apparent molecular mass of 45 kDa on gel-filtration chromatography, was purified 170,000-fold from cytosolic extracts by sequential chromatography on Mono Q, Mono S, phenyl-Sepharose, Superose 12, ATP-Sepharose and Mono Q. The enzyme activity co-chromatographed at the last step with a 45 kDa protein band that stained for phosphotyrosine. This peak fraction also contained some actin and a 60 kDa protein that stained weakly for phosphotyrosine. The T669 peptide is a substrate for mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase. Amounts of IL-1-induced T669 kinase and activated recombinant p42 MAP kinase having equal activity on T669 peptide were compared on commonly used MAP kinase substrates. T669 kinase was two or three orders of magnitude less active on myelin basic protein or microtubule-associated protein-2 than was MAP kinase. The IL-1-induced T669 kinase did not react with antiserum to p42/p44 MAP kinase. It was inactivated by treatment with protein phosphatase 2A or protein phosphotyrosine phosphatase 1B, so it may be regulated by dual phosphorylation in similar fashion to MAP kinase. The dephosphorylated enzyme was not re-activated by MAP kinase kinase. This novel enzyme could lie on a kinase cascade induced by IL-1. It may be responsible for phosphorylating T669 of the EGF receptor.


1996 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 1633-1642 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Miyamoto ◽  
H Teramoto ◽  
J S Gutkind ◽  
K M Yamada

Integrins mediate cell adhesion, migration, and a variety of signal transduction events. These integrin actions can overlap or even synergize with those of growth factors. We examined for mechanisms of collaboration or synergy between integrins and growth factors involving MAP kinases, which regulate many cellular functions. In cooperation with integrins, the growth factors EGF, PDGF-BB, and basic FGF each produced a marked, transient activation of the ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) class of MAP kinase, but only if the integrins were both aggregated and occupied by ligand. Transmembrane accumulation of total tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, as well as nonsynergistic MAP kinase activation, could be induced by simple integrin aggregation, whereas enhanced transient accumulation of the EGF-receptor substrate eps8 required integrin aggregation and occupancy, as well as EGF treatment. Each type of growth factor receptor was itself induced to aggregate transiently by integrin ligand-coated beads in a process requiring both aggregation and occupancy of integrin receptors, but not the presence of growth factor ligand. Synergism was also observed between integrins and growth factors for triggering tyrosine phosphorylation of EGF, PDGF, and FGF receptors. This collaborative response also required both integrin aggregation and occupancy. These studies identify mechanisms in the signal transduction response to integrins and growth factors that require various combinations of integrin aggregation and ligands for integrin or growth factor receptors, providing opportunities for collaboration between these major regulatory systems.


2008 ◽  
Vol 180 (6) ◽  
pp. 1205-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Roxrud ◽  
Camilla Raiborg ◽  
Nina Marie Pedersen ◽  
Espen Stang ◽  
Harald Stenmark

Down-regulation of activated and ubiquitinated growth factor (GF) receptors by endocytosis and subsequent lysosomal degradation ensures attenuation of GF signaling. The ubiquitin-binding adaptor protein Eps15 (epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR] pathway substrate 15) functions in endocytosis of such receptors. Here, we identify an Eps15 isoform, Eps15b, and demonstrate its expression in human cells and conservation across vertebrate species. Although both Eps15 and Eps15b interact with the endosomal sorting protein Hrs (hepatocyte growth factor–regulated tyrosine kinase substrate) in vitro, we find that Hrs specifically binds Eps15b in vivo (whereas adaptor protein 2 preferentially interacts with Eps15). Although Eps15 mainly localizes to clathrin-coated pits at the plasma membrane, Eps15b localizes to Hrs-positive microdomains on endosomes. Eps15b overexpression, similarly to Hrs overexpression, inhibits ligand-mediated degradation of EGFR, whereas Eps15 is without effect. Similarly, depletion of Eps15b but not Eps15 delays degradation and promotes recycling of EGFR. These results indicate that Eps15b is an endosomally localized isoform of Eps15 that is present in the Hrs complex via direct Hrs interaction and important for the sorting function of this complex.


2001 ◽  
Vol 355 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo R. ZURITA ◽  
Hugo J. F. MACCIONI ◽  
Jose L. DANIOTTI

The effect of changing the ganglioside composition of Chinese hamster ovary K1 cells on the function of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFr) was examined by studying the signalling pathway generated after the binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) both in cells depleted of glycosphingolipids by inhibiting glucosylceramide synthase activity and in cell lines expressing different gangliosides as the result of stable transfection of appropriate ganglioside glycosyltransferases. After stimulation with EGF, cells depleted of glycolipids showed EGFr phosphorylation and extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 2 (ERK2) activity as parental cells expressing GM3 [ganglioside nomenclature follows Svennerholm (1963) J. Neurochem. 10, 613-623] or as transfected cells expressing mostly GM2 and GD1a as the result of stable transfection of UDP-GalNAc:LacCer/GM3/GD3 N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase. However, cells stably transfected with CMP-NeuAc:GM3 sialyltransferase and expressing GD3 at the cell surface showed both decreased EGFr phosphorylation and ERK2 activation after stimulation with EGF. Results suggest that changes in the ganglioside composition of cell membranes might be important in the regulation of the EGF signal transduction.


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