Inhibition of ErbB-2 mitogenic and transforming activity by RALT, a mitogen-induced signal transducer which binds to the ErbB-2 kinase domain.
The product of rat gene 33 was identified as an ErbB-2-interacting protein in a two-hybrid screen employing the ErbB-2 juxtamembrane and kinase domains as bait. This interaction was reproduced in vitro with a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein spanning positions 282 to 395 of the 459-residue gene 33 protein. Activation of ... ErbB-2 catalytic function was required for ErbB-2-gene 33 physical interaction in living cells, whereas ErbB-2 autophosphorylation was dispensable. Expression of gene 33 protein was absent in growth-arrested NIH 3T3 fibroblasts but was induced within 60 to 90 min of serum stimulation or activation of the ErbB-2 kinase and decreased sharply upon entry into S phase. New differentiation factor stimulation of mitogen-deprived mammary epithelial cells also caused accumulation of gene 33 protein, which could be found in a complex with ErbB-2. Overexpression of gene 33 protein in mouse fibroblasts inhibited (i) cell proliferation driven by ErbB-2 but not by serum, (ii) cell transformation induced by ErbB-2 but not by Ras or Src, and (iii) sustained activation of ERK 1 and 2 by ErbB-2 but not by serum. The gene 33 protein may convey inhibitory signals downstream to ErbB-2 by virtue of its association with SH3-containing proteins, including GRB-2, which was found to associate with gene 33 protein in living cells. These data indicate that the gene 33 protein is a feedback inhibitor of ErbB-2 mitogenic function and a suppressor of ErbB-2 oncogenic activity. We propose that the gene 33 protein be renamed with the acronym RALT (receptor-associated late transducer).
Mesh Terms:
3T3 Cells, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Breast Neoplasms, Carrier Proteins, Catalytic Domain, Cell Cycle, Cell Division, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Enzyme Activation, Gene Expression Regulation, Mice, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Mitogens, Molecular Sequence Data, Phosphorylation, Protein Binding, Proteins, Rats, Receptor, erbB-2, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Signal Transduction, Two-Hybrid System Techniques, src Homology Domains
3T3 Cells, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Breast Neoplasms, Carrier Proteins, Catalytic Domain, Cell Cycle, Cell Division, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Enzyme Activation, Gene Expression Regulation, Mice, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Mitogens, Molecular Sequence Data, Phosphorylation, Protein Binding, Proteins, Rats, Receptor, erbB-2, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Signal Transduction, Two-Hybrid System Techniques, src Homology Domains
Mol. Cell. Biol.
Date: Oct. 01, 2000
PubMed ID: 11003669
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