title: Cysteine residues in the C-terminal lobe of Src: their role in the suppression of the Src kinase.
abstract: To evaluate the function of cysteine residues of the Src kinase, we constructed a series of Src mutants in which some of cysteines were replaced to alanines. With these mutants, we studied the effect of SH-alkylating agents, N-[p-(2-benzimidazolyl)phenyl] maleimide (BIPM) and N-(9-acridinyl) maleimide (NAM), on their kinase activity. Of 10 cysteine residues scattered over v-Src, either a single mutation at Cys520 or multiple mutations at the four clustered cyteines, Cys483, Cys487, Cys496 and Cys498, yielded clear resistance to the treatment with 10 microM BIPM or 1 microM NAM. In contrast, other cysteines including those in the SH2 domain and those in the catalytic cleft of the kinase domain were dispensable for the inactivation by BIPM and NAM. Similarly, deletion of SH2 and SH3 did not confer the resistance to v-Src, suggesting the inactivation by the SH-alkylating agents is SH2/SH3-independent. Although Cys520-mutated v-Src was resistant to 1 microM NAM, it was inactivated by 5 microM NAM. However, combined mutation including all of Cys483, Cys487, Cys496, Cys498 and Cys520 yielded clear resistance to 5 microM NAM. Among these mutants, those with double mutations in the four clustered cysteines yielded a temperature sensitive phenotype in the transfected cells, whereas Cys520 did not, suggesting that Cys520 has, at least in part, a discrete function. In contrast to v-Src, c-Src, which lacks cysteine at position 520, was resistant to 1 microM NAM but sensitive to 5 microM NAM. While replacement of Phe520 of c-Src to cysteine made it sensitive to 1 microM NAM, double mutation in clustered cysteines again yielded resistance to 5 microM NAM. Taken together, our results strongly suggest that the multiple cysteine residues clustered at the end of the C-terminal lobe are critical for the inhibition by the SH-alkylating agents and, thereby, have an allosteric repressor effect on the catalytic activity of Src in a SH2-phosphoTyr527 independent manner.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Myat Lin
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Oo
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Senga
authors.forename: Aye Aye
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Thant
authors.forename: A R M Ruhul
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Amin
authors.forename: Pengyu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Naing Naing
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Mon
authors.forename: Michinari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamaguchi
mesh_terms: D000477:Alkylating Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D000494:Allosteric Regulation; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001358:Avian Sarcoma Viruses / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D019556:COS Cells; D000081247:CSK Tyrosine-Protein Kinase; D002384:Catalysis; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D003062:Codon; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D008301:Maleimides / Q000494:pharmacology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015688:Oncogene Protein pp60(v-src) / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry*; D019000:Phosphotyrosine / Q000737:chemistry; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D018909:src Homology Domains; D019061:src-Family Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000477:Alkylating Agents; D003062:Codon; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D008301:Maleimides; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D019000:Phosphotyrosine; C000245:N-(4-(2-benzimidazolyl)phenyl)maleimide; C080490:N-(9-acridinyl)maleimide; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D000081247:CSK Tyrosine-Protein Kinase; D015688:Oncogene Protein pp60(v-src); D019061:src-Family Kinases; D003545:Cysteine