Activation of protein-tyrosine phosphatase SH-PTP2 by a tyrosine-based activation motif of a novel brain molecule.

BIT (a brain immunoglobulin-like molecule with tyrosine-based activation motifs) is a brain-specific membrane protein which has two cytoplasmic TAMs (tyrosine-based activation motifs). Using the Far Western blotting technique, we detected association of a 70-kDa protein with the tyrosine-phosphorylated TAMs of BIT. A mouse brain cDNA library in lambdagt11 was screened ...
for this association, and two positive clones encoding tyrosine phosphatase SH-PTP2 were isolated. SH-PTP2 has two SH2 domains and is believed to function as a positive mediator in receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. SH-PTP2 and BIT were coimmunoprecipitated from phosphorylated rat brain lysate, and BIT was a major tyrosine-phosphorylated protein associated with SH-PTP2 in this lysate. This interaction was also observed in Jurkat T cells transfected with BIT cDNA depending on tyrosine phosphorylation of BIT. Bisphosphotyrosyl peptides corresponding to BIT-TAMs stimulated SH-PTP2 activity 33-35-fold in vitro, indicating that two SH2 domains of SH-PTP2 simultaneously interact with two phosphotyrosines of BIT-TAM. Our findings suggest that the tyrosine phosphorylation of BIT results in stimulation of the signal transduction pathway promoted by SH-PTP2 and that BIT is probably a major receptor molecule in the brain located just upstream of SH-PTP2.
Mesh Terms:
Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Blotting, Western, Brain, Cell Line, DNA Primers, Enzyme Activation, Humans, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Mice, Models, Structural, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Peptide Fragments, Phosphopeptides, Phosphorylation, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Protein Conformation, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Rats, Receptors, Antigen, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Signal Transduction, Transfection, Tyrosine
J. Biol. Chem.
Date: Oct. 11, 1996
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