title: Integrin-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of protein-tyrosine phosphatase-alpha is required for cytoskeletal reorganization and cell migration.
abstract: Protein-tyrosine phosphatase-alpha (PTPalpha) activates Src family kinases (SFKs) to promote the integrin-stimulated early autophosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK). We report here that integrin stimulation induces tyrosine phosphorylation of PTPalpha. PTPalpha was dephosphorylated upon fibroblast detachment from the substratum and rephosphorylated when cells were plated on the integrin ligand fibronectin. alpha PTP phosphorylation occurred at Tyr789 and required SFKs (Src or Fyn/Yes), FAK, and an intact cytoskeleton. It also required active PTPalpha or constitutively active Src. These observations indicate that PTPalpha activates SFKs and that the subsequently activated SFK.FAK tyrosine kinase complex in turn phosphorylates PTPalpha. Reintroduction of wild-type PTPalpha or unphosphorylatable PTPalpha(Y789F) (but not inactive PTPalpha) into PTPalpha-null fibroblasts restored defective integrin-induced SFK activation, FAK phosphorylation, and paxillin phosphorylation. PTPalpha(Y789F) and inactive PTPalpha could not rescue delayed actin stress fiber assembly and focal adhesion formation or defective cell migration. This study distinguishes two roles of PTPalpha in integrin signaling: an early role as an activator of SFKs and FAK with no requirement for PTPalpha phosphorylation and a later downstream role in cytoskeleton-associated events for which PTPalpha phosphorylation at Tyr789 is essential.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore 138673 and the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shirley C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Catherine J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Pallen
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002465:Cell Movement; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000494:pharmacology; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D016023:Integrins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008024:Ligands; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D051419:Paxillin / Q000378:metabolism; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000276:immunology; D010766:Phosphorylation / Q000187:drug effects; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism*; D019061:src-Family Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D005353:Fibronectins; D016023:Integrins; D008024:Ligands; D051419:Paxillin; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D014443:Tyrosine; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C496051:Ptk2 protein, mouse; D019061:src-Family Kinases; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases