The duration of phorbol-inducible ErbB2 tyrosine dephosphorylation parallels that of receptor endocytosis rather than threonine-686 phosphorylation: implications for the physiological role of protein kinase C in growth factor receptor signalling |
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Authors: | Ouyang X; Gulliford T; Epstein RJ |
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Institution: | Department of Metabolic Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK. |
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Abstract: | Tumour cell growth may be accelerated by protein kinase C (PKC) agonists
such as phorbol esters and receptor tyrosine kinases, but receptor tyrosine
kinases are in turn desensitized to growth factors by PKC agonists. To
clarify this apparent PKC bifunctionality, we have used phosphoantibodies
to determine the relationship between PKC- dependent phosphorylation events
affecting the ErbB2 oncoprotein in G8/DHFR 3T3 cells. Neither the kinetics
nor the extent of phorbol- induced juxtamembrane domain (Thr686)
phosphorylation vary directly with C-terminal (Tyr1222) dephosphorylation,
with Tyr1222 continuing to be dephosphorylated long after Thr686
phosphorylation has also declined. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)
mimics the short-term effects of phorbol on Thr686 and Tyr1222
phosphorylation, and confocal microscopy reveals that both of these PKC
agonists induce rapid internalization of PKC-modified ErbB2. Phorbol causes
sustained cytoplasmic accumulation of PKC-phosphorylated receptors,
however, whereas PDGF triggers the appearance of this ErbB2 subset only
briefly. Metabolic labelling and co-precipitation studies fail to implicate
heterologous molecules in either the tyrosine dephosphorylation or
internalization of PKC-modified ErbB2. Taken in the context of earlier
juxtamembrane domain mutagenesis studies, these findings indicate that
phorbol-activated PKC may desensitize growth factor receptors to
extracellular ligands solely by triggering sustained receptor
internalization. We submit that PKC-dependent juxtamembrane domain
phosphorylation represents a physiological mechanism for shortening the
duration and enhancing the specificity of growth factor signalling by
promoting internalization of liganded and unliganded receptors,
respectively.
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