title: Isolation and identification of two proto-oncogene products related to c-fgr and fyn in a tyrosine-protein-kinase fraction of rat spleen.
abstract: TPK-III, a tyrosine-protein-kinase fraction previously isolated from rat spleen [Brunati, A. M. & Pinna, L. A. (1988) Eur. J. Biochem. 172, 451-457] has been further purified and resolved by Mono-Q FPLC into two homogeneous compounds, Q1 and Q2, with molecular mass approximately 52 kDa, exhibiting high specific activities for phosphate incorporation into the phosphoacceptor substrate poly(Glu80Tyr20) (1194 nmol.min-1 x mg-1 and 579 nmol.min-1 x mg-1, respectively). Both Q1 and Q2 appear to be scr-related enzymes since they are readily recognised by anti-SEEP serum raised against the highly conserved segment at positions 330-345 of p60c-scr. Q1, but not Q2, interacts with a specific antibody raised against the N-terminal segment of p55c-fgr. Microsequence analysis of tryptic fragments generated from Q1 revealed five peptides which exactly overlap the expected segments of p55c-fgr. Two of these peptides were not entirely conserved in any of the other src-related tyrosine protein kinases. A sixth fragment is very similar, albeit not identical, to the C-terminus of p55c-fgr. Microsequence analysis of two tryptic fragments from the other TPK-III fraction, Q2, provided the sequences FQILNSSE and LTTQETGYIPSNY, which are identical to two segments of fyn not entirely conserved in any of the other src-related tyrosine protein kinases. These results provide evidence that the spleen tyrosine-protein-kinase fraction, conventionally designated TPK-III, is composed of products from two proto-oncogenes, one of which corresponds to fyn, while the other is either identical or very closely related to c-fgr.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Università di Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Brunati
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donella-Deana
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Matoskova
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Pinna
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; D051381:Rats; D013154:Spleen / Q000201:enzymology*; D019061:src-Family Kinases
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C494961:Fyn protein, rat; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; C053102:proto-oncogene proteins c-fgr; D019061:src-Family Kinases