title: Constitutively activated neu oncoprotein tyrosine kinase interferes with growth factor-induced signals for gene activation.
abstract: The neu receptor oncoprotein tyrosine kinase, capable of transforming cultured fibroblasts and causing mammary carcinomas in transgenic mice, carries a point mutation in its transmembrane domain and shows a constitutive tyrosine kinase activity. We analyzed the neu tyrosine kinase and its substrates in transfected NIH 3T3 fibroblasts by phosphotyrosine immunoblotting. Tyrosine phosphorylated proteins were similar but not identical in epidermal growth factor (EGF)-stimulated cells expressing the human EGF receptor (EGFR) or a chimeric EGFR/neu receptor but differed from phosphotyrosyl proteins constitutively expressed in neu oncogene-transformed cells. The neu oncoprotein in the latter cells was phosphorylated in tyrosine in a ligand-independent manner and had a shortened half-life in comparison with the normal neu protein. Tumor promoter pretreatment inhibited ligand-induced receptor tyrosine phosphorylation and decreased tyrosine phosphorylated neu oncoprotein. Prolonged pretreatment with 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) also prevented the induction of immediate early growth factor-regulated genes in response to neu activation. Expression of the neu oncogene but not the protooncogene in NIH 3T3 cells was associated with enhanced levels of the jun and fos oncoproteins and loss of serum growth factor induction of immediate early mRNA responses. The constitutively activated neu oncoprotein tyrosine kinase thus deregulates cellular genomic responses to growth factors.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lehtola
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sistonen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koskinen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lehväslaiho
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Di Renzo
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Comoglio
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alitalo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000187:drug effects; D011905:Genes, ras; D006801:Humans; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D011061:Poly A / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D014162:Transfection; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D066246:ErbB Receptors; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; D011061:Poly A; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D012313:RNA; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D014443:Tyrosine