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A synthetic peptide modeled after the major threonine (T669) phosphorylation site of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor was an efficient substrate (apparent Km approximately 0.45 mM) for phosphorylation by purified p44mpk, a MAP kinase from sea star oocytes. The peptide was also phosphorylated by a related human MAP kinase, which was identified by immunological criteria as p42mapk. Within 5 min of treatment of human cervical carcinoma A431 cells with EGF or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), a greater than 3-fold activation of p42mapk was measured. However, Mono Q chromatography of A431 cells extracts afforded the resolution of at least three additional T669 peptide kinases, some of which may be new members of the MAP kinase family. One of these (peak I), which weakly adsorbed to Mono Q, phosphorylated myelin basic protein (MBP) and other MAP kinase substrates, immunoreacted as a 42 kDa protein on Western blots with four different MAP kinase antibodies, and behaved as a approximately 45 kDa protein upon Superose 6 gel filtration. Another T669 peptide kinase (peak IV), which bound more tightly to Mono Q than p42mapk (peak II), exhibited a nearly identical substrate specificity profile to that of p42mapk, but it immunoreacted as a 40 kDa protein only with anti-p44mpk antibody on Western blots, and eluted from Superose 6 in a high molecular mass complex of greater than 400 kDa. By immunological criteria, the T669 peptide kinase in Mono Q peak III was tentatively identified as an active form of p34cdc2 associated with cyclin A. The Mono Q peaks III and IV kinases were modestly stimulated following either EGF or PMA treatments of A431 cells, and they exhibited a greater T669 peptide/MBP ratio than p42mapk. These findings indicated that multiple proline-directed kinases may mediate phosphorylation of the EGF receptor.
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PMID:Identification of epidermal growth factor Thr-669 phosphorylation site peptide kinases as distinct MAP kinases and p34cdc2. 132 Apr 11

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) treatment of cells expressing the human EGF receptor (EGFr) results in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of several cellular proteins including mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase. EGF treatment of cells expressing a tyrosine kinase-inactive EGFr failed to induce the tyrosine phosphorylation of endogenous substrates in response to EGF; however, the tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of MAP kinase did occur. This observation indicates that MAP kinase is activated in response to a signal other than the tyrosine kinase activity of the EGFr. Because EGF does not stimulate cells expressing the inactive EGFr to proliferate, phosphorylation of MAP kinase may not be sufficient for the EGF-dependent mitogenesis.
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PMID:Tyrosine phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in cells with tyrosine kinase-negative epidermal growth factor receptors. 132 7

Treatment of normal human fibroblasts with epidermal growth factor (EGF) results in the rapid (0.5 min) and simultaneous tyrosine phosphorylation of the EGF receptor (EGFr) and several other proteins. An exception to this tyrosine phosphorylation wave was a protein (42 kDa) that became phosphorylated on tyrosine only after a short lag time (5 min). We identified this p42 kDa substrate as the microtubule-associated protein (MAP) kinase using a monoclonal antibody to a peptide corresponding to the C-terminus of the predicted protein (Science 249, 64-67, 1990). EGF treatment of human fibroblasts at 37 degrees C for 5 min resulted in the tyrosine phosphorylation of 60-70% of MAP kinase as determined by the percent that was immunoprecipitated with antiphosphotyrosine antibodies. Like other tyrosine kinase growth factor receptors, the EGFr is activated and phosphorylated at 4 degrees C but is not internalized. Whereas most other substrates were readily tyrosine phosphorylated at 4 degrees C, MAP kinase was not. When cells were first stimulated with EGF at 4 degrees C and then warmed to 37 degrees C without EGF, tyrosine phosphorylation of MAP kinase was again observed. Treatment of cells with the protein kinase C activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) also resulted in the tyrosine phosphorylation of MAP kinase, and again only at 37 degrees C. Tryptic phosphopeptide maps demonstrated that EGF and PMA both induced the phosphorylation of the same peptide on tyrosine and threonine. This temperature and PMA sensitivity distinguishes MAP kinase from most other tyrosine kinase substrates in activated human fibroblasts.
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PMID:Temperature-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein kinase in epidermal growth factor-stimulated human fibroblasts. 166 89

The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor is both an activator and a target of growth factor-stimulated kinases involved in cellular signaling. Threonine-669 (T669) of the EGF receptor is phosphorylated in response to a wide variety of growth-modulating agents. MAP kinase is similarly phosphorylated as well as stimulated by growth activators, including EGF. To determine whether a MAP-type kinase is responsible for T669 kinase activity in EGF-stimulated 3T3-L1 cells, we partially purified and characterized the T669 peptide kinase. The results indicate that a MAP kinase phosphorylates the T669 peptide and raise the possibility that this enzyme may participate in a feedback loop, being activated by the EGF receptor and in turn phosphorylating the receptor.
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PMID:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor T669 peptide kinase from 3T3-L1 cells is an EGF-stimulated "MAP" kinase. 184 6

Formation of a complex of the nucleotide exchange factor Sos, the SH2 and SH3 containing adaptor protein Grb2/Sem-5 and tyrosine phosphorylated EGF receptor and Shc has been implicated in the activation of Ras by epidermal growth factor (EGF) in fibroblasts: related mechanisms for activation of Ras operate in other cell types. An increase in the apparent molecular weight of Sos has been reported to occur after several minutes of receptor stimulation due to phosphorylation by mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases. We report here that treatment of human peripheral blood T lymphoblasts with phorbol esters causes a similar shift in mobility of Sos. This modification of Sos does not alter its ability to bind Grb2, but correlates with strong inhibition of the binding of the Sos/Grb2 complex to tyrosine phosphorylated sequences, either a tyrosine phosphopeptide in cell lysates or p36 in intact cells. This effect, along with the mobility shift of Sos, can be mimicked in vitro by phosphorylation of Sos by the mitogen-activated protein kinase, ERK1. A novel negative feedback mechanism therefore exists whereby activation of MAP kinases through Ras results in the uncoupling of the Sos/Grb2 complex from tyrosine kinase substrates without blocking the interaction of Sos with Grb2.
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PMID:Downregulation of the Ras activation pathway by MAP kinase phosphorylation of Sos. 747 53

Incubation of HER14 cells with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) decreases epidermal growth factor (EGF)-dependent protein tyrosine phosphorylation, except for a 40-kDa MAP kinase II-like protein, whose tyrosine phosphorylation is further enhanced. The inhibitory effect of PMA on EGF-dependent protein tyrosine phosphorylation is reversed if cell are pre-incubated with a combination of Na3VO4 and NaF, two known inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatase activity. Protein tyrosine phosphatase activity of cell homogenate was measured on immunopurified EGF receptor, and was found to be enhanced in PMA-treated cells. These data suggest that the inhibitory effect of PMA on EGF-dependent protein tyrosine phosphorylation in HER14 cells may be mediated by protein tyrosine phosphatase activity.
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PMID:Inhibition of epidermal growth factor-dependent protein tyrosine phosphorylation by phorbol myristate acetate is mediated by protein tyrosine phosphatase activity. 750 70

ErbB-2 becomes rapidly phosphorylated and activated following treatment of many cell lines with epidermal growth factor (EGF) or Neu differentiation factor (NDF). However, these factors do not directly bind ErbB-2, and its activation is likely to be mediated via transmodulation by other members of the type I/EGF receptor (EGFR)-related family of receptor tyrosine kinases. The precise role of ErbB-2 in the transduction of the signals elicited by EGF and NDF is unclear. We have used a novel approach to study the role of ErbB-2 in signaling through this family of receptors. An ErbB-2-specific single-chain antibody, designed to prevent transit through the endoplasmic reticulum and cell surface localization of ErbB-2, has been expressed in T47D mammary carcinoma cells, which express all four known members of the EGFR family. We show that cell surface expression of ErbB-2 was selectively suppressed in these cells and that the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway and p70/p85S6K, induction of c-fos expression, and stimulation of growth by NDF were dramatically impaired. Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase and p70/p85S6K and induction of c-fos expression by EGF were also significantly reduced. We conclude that in T47D cells, ErbB-2 is a major NDF signal transducer and a potentiator of the EGF signal. Thus, our observations demonstrate that ErbB-2 plays a central role in the type I/EGFR-related family of receptors and that receptor transmodulation represents a crucial step in growth factor signaling.
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PMID:Single-chain antibody-mediated intracellular retention of ErbB-2 impairs Neu differentiation factor and epidermal growth factor signaling. 753 77

Although they all utilize tyrosine kinase receptors and activate signaling pathways characterized by a similar set of phosphoproteins, epidermal growth factor (EGF) promotes only cell division while fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) can induce division followed by differentiation in PC12 cells. EGF, in contrast to NGF and FGF, cannot maintain the sustained phosphorylation and activation of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase and MAP kinases, which may account for the difference in phenotypic response. The pretreatment of PC12 cells with staurosporine, a protein kinase inhibitor, causes a substantial increase in both receptor and MAP kinase phosphorylation that results in a differentiative response (neurite proliferation). However, neurites begin to disappear after 3 days, despite the continual presence of EGF, and are largely gone after 5 days, which is not the case with NGF and FGF. Thus, the effect of staurosporine is not permanent. Northern and Western blots indicate that the staurosporine response mainly results from a substantial up-regulation in EGF receptor synthesis, thus providing a much stronger cell surface signal and supporting the view that quantitative rather than qualitative differences distinguish the EGF versus NGF/FGF signaling pathways in these cells.
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PMID:Staurosporine causes epidermal growth factor to induce differentiation in PC12 cells via receptor up-regulation. 753 72

Although signaling by the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor is thought to be dependent on receptor tyrosine kinase activity, it is clear that mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase can be activated by receptors lacking kinase activity. Since analysis of the signaling pathways used by kinase-defective receptors could reveal otherwise masked capabilities, we examined in detail the tyrosine phosphorylations and enzymes of the MAP kinase pathway induced by kinase-defective EGF receptors. Following EGF stimulation of B82L cells expressing a kinase-defective EGF receptor mutant (K721M), we found that ERK2 and ERK1 MAP kinases, as well as MEK1 and MEK2 were all activated, and SHC became prominently tyrosine-phosphorylated. By contrast, kinase-defective receptors failed to induce detectable phosphorylations of GAP (GTPase-activating protein), p62, JAK1, or p91STAT1, all of which were robustly phosphorylated by wild-type receptors. These data demonstrate that kinase-defective receptors induce several protein tyrosine phosphorylations, but that these represent only a subset of those seen with wild-type receptors. This suggests that kinase-defective receptors activate a heterologous tyrosine kinase with a specificity different from the EGF receptor. We found that kinase-defective receptors induced ErbB2/c-Neu enzymatic activation and ErbB2/c-Neu binding to SHC at a level even greater than that induced by wild-type receptors. Thus, heterodimerization with and activation of endogenous ErbB2/c-Neu is a possible mechanism by which kinase-defective receptors stimulate the MAP kinase pathway.
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PMID:An incomplete program of cellular tyrosine phosphorylations induced by kinase-defective epidermal growth factor receptors. 753 32

The exposure of mammalian cells to ultraviolet radiation (UV) may lead to DNA damage resulting in mutation and thus possibly cancer, while irradiation can further act as a potent tumor promoter. In addition UV induces p21ras-mediated signalling leading to activation of transcription factors such as AP-1 and NF-kappa B, as well as activation of the Src tyrosine kinase. This 'UV-response' has been well studied in mammalian cells and furthermore is conserved in yeast, however the most upstream components of this signal transduction pathway have remained elusive. Here we show that UV rapidly activates both the EGF receptor and insulin receptor, as shown by tyrosine phosphorylation of these receptors. We demonstrate that this activation is due to autophosphorylation as it only occurs in cells containing receptors with a functional kinase domain. We have further analysed the propagation of the UV-induced signal to downstream events such as, IRS-1 and Shc tyrosine phosphorylation, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation, leukotriene synthesis, MAP kinase activation and gene induction all of which are activated by UV irradiation. Importantly, we demonstrate that in cells expressing a 'kinase-dead' receptor mutant the UV-response is inhibited, blocking leukotriene synthesis, MAP kinase activation and transcriptional induction. Furthermore, prior-stimulation of cells with UV appears to reduce further responsiveness to addition of growth factor suggesting a common signaling pathway. These data demonstrate a critical role for receptor-mediated events in regulating the response mammalian cells to UV exposure.
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PMID:UV activation of receptor tyrosine kinase activity. 754 96


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