title: Agonist-specific tyrosine phosphorylation of Cbl in human neutrophils.
abstract: The effects of soluble and particulate agonists on the tyrosine phosphorylation levels of the proto-oncogene Cbl in human neutrophils were examined. Experimental conditions allowing the maintenance of Cbl as well as of its tyrosine phosphorylation status were first established. Their use allowed us to observe that Cbl was tyrosine phosphorylated in response to some (FcgammaRII ligation, opsonized bacteria and zymosan, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, monosodium urate, and calcium pyrophosphate microcrystals), but not all (fMet-Leu-Phe, interleukin-8) neutrophil agonists. Cbl was also shown to account for a varying proportion of the 120-kDa phosphoprotein(s) observed in response to the above stimuli. These data establish that Cbl is present in human neutrophils and that its level of tyrosine phosphorylation is modulated by some of these cells' agonists, and in particular by phagocytic particles. Furthermore, the signaling pathways activated by chemotactic factors and the other neutrophil stimuli tested in this investigation diverge at or downstream from the tyrosine phosphorylation of Cbl.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche en Rhumatologie et Immunologie, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada. paul.naccache@crchul.ulaval.ca
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Naccache
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Barabé
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Shami
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mahana
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Bourgoin
mesh_terms: D002630:Chemotactic Factors / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D018375:Neutrophil Activation; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000819:agonists / Q000378:metabolism*; D050721:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
chemical_list: D002630:Chemotactic Factors; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D014443:Tyrosine; D050721:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; C067419:CBL protein, human