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Two sequences flanking the major autophosphorylation site of the insulin receptor are essential for tyrosine kinase activation.

ABSTRACT: The tyrosine kinase domain of the human insulin receptor (IR) contains several short amino acid motifs which are strictly conserved in all protein kinases and two sequence motifs which are specific to the tyrosine kinases (AAR or RAA and P(I)/VK/RWT/M). In the serine/threonine kinases these motifs are replaced by the sequences KPE and GT/SXXY/PX respectively. In the present work, the tyrosine kinase-specific sequences of the IR (1134AAR1136 and 1172PVRWM1176) were replaced using site-directed mutagenesis by sequences which confer a serine kinase specificity on the receptor. Five different IR mutants were expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) or COS cells and their structural and functional properties compared with those of the wild-type recombinant human IR. These mutants are processed normally and bind insulin with normal affinities. None of the mutants containing a putative serine kinase-specific sequence display detectable autophosphorylation or tyrosine kinase activity in response to insulin, either in vitro or in vivo. These mutants were also unable to phosphorylate serine/threonine kinase substrates after insulin stimulation. Unexpectedly, they showed impaired ATP binding, as studied by an original technique consisting of cross-linking adenosine 5'-([35S]thio)triphosphate to partially purified receptors. Finally, none of the studied mutants transmit the insulin signal necessary to stimulate either DNA or glycogen synthesis. These data provide evidence for the importance of these conserved sequences in the kinase domain for both receptor activation and kinase activity. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the exchange of sequences specific to the catalytic domain of tyrosine kinases for those specific to the serine/threonine kinases is not sufficient to confer serine/threonine specificity on the insulin receptor.

SUBMITTER: Leconte I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1136541 | biostudies-other | 1995 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:Fluoride is a nucleophilic reagent which has been reported to inhibit a variety of different enzymes such as esterases, asymmetrical hydrolases and phosphatases. In this report, we demonstrate that fluoride inhibits tyrosine kinase activity of insulin receptors partially purified from rat skeletal muscle and human placenta. Fluoride inhibited in a similar dose-dependent manner both beta-subunit autophosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity for exogenous substrates. This inhibitory effect of fluoride was not due to the formation of complexes with aluminum and took place in the absence of modifications of insulin-binding properties of the insulin receptor. Fluoride did not complete with the binding site for ATP or Mn2+. Fluoride also inhibited the autophosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity of receptors for insulin-like growth factor I from human placenta. Addition of fluoride to the pre-phosphorylated insulin receptor produced a slow (time range of minutes) inhibition of receptor kinase activity. Furthermore, fluoride inhibited tyrosine kinase activity in the absence of changes in the phosphorylation of prephosphorylated insulin receptors, and the sensitivity to fluoride was similar to the sensitivity of the unphosphorylated insulin receptor. The effect of fluoride-on tyrosine kinase activity was markedly decreased when insulin receptors were preincubated with the copolymer of glutamate/tyrosine. Prior exposure of receptors to free tyrosine or phosphotyrosine also prevented the inhibitory effect of fluoride. However, the protective effect of tyrosine or phosphotyrosine was maximal at low concentrations, suggesting the interaction of these compounds with the receptor itself rather than with fluoride. These data suggest: (i) that fluoride interacts directly and slowly with the insulin receptor, which causes inhibition of its phosphotransferase activity; (ii) that the binding site of fluoride is not structurally modified by receptor phosphorylation; and (iii) based on the fact that fluoride inhibits phosphotransferase activity in the absence of alterations in the binding of ATP, Mn2+ or insulin, we speculate that fluoride binding might affect the transfer of phosphate from ATP to the tyrosine residues of the beta-subunit of the insulin receptor and to the tyrosine residues of exogenous substrates.

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