title: Spatial structure of the transmembrane domain heterodimer of ErbB1 and ErbB2 receptor tyrosine kinases.
abstract: Growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases of the ErbB family play a significant role in vital cellular processes and various cancers. During signal transduction across plasma membrane, ErbB receptors are involved in lateral homodimerization and heterodimerization with proper assembly of their extracellular single-span transmembrane (TM) and cytoplasmic domains. The ErbB1/ErbB2 heterodimer appears to be the strongest and most potent inducer of cellular transformation and mitogenic signaling compared to other ErbB homodimers and heterodimers. Spatial structure of the heterodimeric complex formed by TM domains of ErbB1 and ErbB2 receptors embedded into lipid bicelles was obtained by solution NMR. The ErbB1 and ErbB2 TM domains associate in a right-handed alpha-helical bundle through their N-terminal double GG4-like motif T(648)G(649)X(2)G(652)A(653) and glycine zipper motif T(652)X(3)S(656)X(3)G(660), respectively. The described heterodimer conformation is believed to support the juxtamembrane and kinase domain configuration corresponding to the receptor active state. The capability for multiple polar interactions, along with hydrogen bonding between TM segments, correlates with the observed highest affinity of the ErbB1/ErbB2 heterodimer, implying an important contribution of the TM helix-helix interaction to signal transduction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural Biology, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, Moscow 117997, Russia.
authors.forename: Konstantin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Mineev
authors.forename: Eduard V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Bocharov
authors.forename: Yulia E
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Pustovalova
authors.forename: Olga V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Bocharova
authors.forename: Vladimir V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Chupin
authors.forename: Alexander S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Arseniev
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D066246:ErbB Receptors; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D018719:Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases