title: Mouse disabled (mDab1): a Src binding protein implicated in neuronal development.
abstract: Here, we identify a mouse homolog of the Drosophila Disabled (Dab) protein, mDab1, and show it is an adaptor molecule functioning in neural development. We find that mDab1 is expressed in certain neuronal and hematopoietic cell lines, and is localized to the growing nerves of embryonic mice. During mouse embryogenesis, mDab1 is tyrosine phosphorylated when the nervous system is undergoing dramatic expansion. However, when nerve tracts are established, mDab1 lacks detectable phosphotyrosine. Tyrosine-phosphorylated mDab1 associates with the SH2 domains of Src, Fyn and Abl. An interaction between mDab1 and Src is observed when P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells undergo differentiation into neuronal cell types. mDab1 can also form complexes with cellular phosphotyrosyl proteins through a domain that is related to the phosphotyrosine binding (PTB) domains of the Shc family of adaptor proteins. The mDab1 PTB domain binds to phosphotyrosine-containing proteins of 200, 120 and 40 kDa from extracts of embryonic mouse heads. The properties of mDab1 and genetic analysis of Dab in Drosophila suggest that these molecules function in key signal transduction pathways involved in the formation of neural networks.
authors.affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Howell
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Gertler
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D015870:Gene Expression; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000378:metabolism; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009420:Nervous System / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D018909:src Homology Domains
chemical_list: C103773:Dab1 protein, mouse; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014443:Tyrosine; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases