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Analysis of the Role of the C-Terminal Tail in the Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.

ABSTRACT: The ?230-residue C-terminal tail of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is phosphorylated upon activation. We examined whether this phosphorylation is affected by deletions within the tail and whether the two tails in the asymmetric active EGFR dimer are phosphorylated differently. We monitored autophosphorylation in cells using flow cytometry and found that the first ?80 residues of the tail are inhibitory, as demonstrated previously. The entire ?80-residue span is important for autoinhibition and needs to be released from both kinases that form the dimer. These results are interpreted in terms of crystal structures of the inactive kinase domain, including two new ones presented here. Deletions in the remaining portion of the tail do not affect autophosphorylation, except for a six-residue segment spanning Tyr 1086 that is critical for activation loop phosphorylation. Phosphorylation of the two tails in the dimer is asymmetric, with the activator tail being phosphorylated somewhat more strongly. Unexpectedly, we found that reconstitution of the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of EGFR in vesicles leads to a peculiar phenomenon in which kinase domains appear to be trapped between stacks of lipid bilayers. This artifactual trapping of kinases between membranes enhances an intrinsic functional asymmetry in the two tails in a dimer.

SUBMITTER: Kovacs E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4525312 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Analysis of the Role of the C-Terminal Tail in the Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.

Kovacs Erika E Das Rahul R Wang Qi Q Collier Timothy S TS Cantor Aaron A Huang Yongjian Y Wong Kathryn K Mirza Amar A Barros Tiago T Grob Patricia P Jura Natalia N Bose Ron R Kuriyan John J

Molecular and cellular biology 20150629 17

The ∼230-residue C-terminal tail of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is phosphorylated upon activation. We examined whether this phosphorylation is affected by deletions within the tail and whether the two tails in the asymmetric active EGFR dimer are phosphorylated differently. We monitored autophosphorylation in cells using flow cytometry and found that the first ∼80 residues of the tail are inhibitory, as demonstrated previously. The entire ∼80-residue span is important for autoinh ...[more]

PMID: 26124280

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Project description:Mutant epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors (obtained by substitution of one, two or three C-terminal autophosphorylable tyrosine residues with phenylalanine residues or by deletion of the C-terminal 19 amino acids, including the distal tyrosine) were expressed in mouse NIH-3T3 fibroblast clones at densities comparable (less than 25% difference) with those in control clones expressing the wild-type receptor. Total EGF-induced phosphorylation of the mutated receptors was not appreciably changed with respect to controls, whereas autophosphorylation at tyrosine residues was decreased, especially in the double and the triple mutants. In the latter mutant, expression of the EGF-receptor-activated lipolytic enzyme phospholipase C gamma was unchanged, whereas its tyrosine phosphorylation induced by the growth factor was lowered to approx. 25% of that in the controls. In all of the cell clones employed, the accumulation of inositol phosphates induced by treatment with fetal calf serum varied only slightly, whereas the same effect induced by EGF was consistently lowered in those lines expressing mutated receptors. This decrease was moderate for those receptors missing only the distal tyrosine (point and deletion mutants), intermediate in the dual mutants and almost complete in the triple mutants. Likewise, increases in intracellular Ca2+ concentrations [( Ca2+]i) induced by fibroblast growth factor were approximately the same in all of the clones, whereas those induced by EGF were decreased in the mutants, again in proportion to the loss of the phosphorylable C-terminal tyrosine residues. The same trend occurred with membrane hyperpolarization, an effect secondary to the increase in [Ca2+]i via the activation of Ca2(+)-dependent K+ channels. We conclude that C-terminal autophosphorylable tyrosine residues play a positive role in the regulation of transmembrane signalling at the EGF receptor. The stepwise decrease in signal generation observed in single, double and triple point mutants suggest that the role of phosphotyrosine residues is not in the participation in specific amino acid sequences, but rather in the introduction of strong negative charges at strategic sites of the receptor tail. As a consequence of autophosphorylation, the receptor could become competent for specific association with phospholipase C gamma, with ensuing activation by tyrosine phosphorylation followed by the chains of intracellular responses ultimately leading to DNA synthesis and cell duplication.

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Analysis of the Role of the C-Terminal Tail in the Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.

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Analysis of the Role of the C-Terminal Tail in the Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.

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