title: Tumor promoter and epidermal growth factor stimulate phosphorylation of the c-erbB-2 gene product in MKN-7 human adenocarcinoma cells.
abstract: Treatment of human adenocarcinoma MKN-7 cells with epidermal growth factor (EGF) or phorbol tetradecanoate acetate (TPA) stimulated phosphorylation of the c-erbB-2 gene product. EGF induced a rapid increase in phosphotyrosine followed by relatively gradual increases in phosphoserine and phosphothreonine. On the other hand, the TPA-induced increase in phosphorylations occurred exclusively on serine and threonine residues. Tryptic phosphopeptide mapping analysis suggested that treatments with EGF and TPA induced phosphorylation of many common sites in the c-erbB-2 gene product. However, in contrast to TPA, EGF increased the phosphorylation of the c-erbB-2 protein in cells whose protein kinase C had been down-regulated by long-term pretreatment with TPA, suggesting that EGF and TPA induce phosphorylation by different mechanisms. Since the c-erbB-2 gene product did not show detectable EGF-binding activity, phosphorylation of tyrosine of the c-erbB-2 gene product might be catalyzed directly by the EGF receptor kinase that was activated by EGF.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma; D001345:Autoradiography; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007118:Immunoassay; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate