title: Novel recognition motif on fibroblast growth factor receptor mediates direct association and activation of SNT adapter proteins.
abstract: Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) stimulate tyrosine phosphorylation of a membrane-anchored adapter protein, FRS2/SNT-1, promoting its association with Shp-2 tyrosine phosphatase and upstream activators of Ras. Using the yeast two-hybrid protein-protein interaction assay, we show that FRS2/SNT-1 and a newly isolated SNT-2 protein directly bind to FGF receptor-1 (FGFR-1). A juxtamembrane segment of FGFR-1 and the phosphotyrosine-binding domain of SNTs are both necessary and sufficient for interaction in yeast and in vitro, and FGFR-mediated SNT tyrosine phosphorylation in vivo requires these segments of receptor and SNT. Our findings establish SNTs as direct protein links between FGFR-1 and multiple downstream pathways. The SNT binding motif of FGFR-1 is distinct from previously described phosphotyrosine-binding domain recognition motifs, lacking both tyrosine and asparagine residues.
authors.affiliation: Brookdale Center for Developmental and Molecular Biology, Cellular, Biochemical and Developmental Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldfarb
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008024:Ligands; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051496:Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1; D017468:Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C106534:FRS2 protein, human; C485162:Frs3 protein, mouse; D008024:Ligands; D008074:Lipoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D017468:Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor; D014443:Tyrosine; C496349:Fgfr1 protein, mouse; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051496:Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1