1. Macrophage-stimulating protein activates Ras by both activation and translocation of SOS nucleotide exchange factor.
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Li BQ, Wang MH, Kung HF, Ronsin C, Breathnach R, Leonard EJ, and Kamata T
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- Animals, Antibodies, Cell Line, Cell Membrane metabolism, Cytosol metabolism, Dogs, Enzyme Activation, ErbB Receptors metabolism, GRB2 Adaptor Protein, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Guanosine Diphosphate metabolism, Guanosine Triphosphate metabolism, Humans, Kidney, Kinetics, Macrophages, Mice, Phosphates metabolism, Phosphorylation, Protein Precursors pharmacology, Proteins analysis, Recombinant Proteins metabolism, Transfection, ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Growth Substances pharmacology, Hepatocyte Growth Factor, Proteins metabolism, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases metabolism, Receptors, Cell Surface metabolism, ras Proteins metabolism
- Abstract
Macrophage-stimulating protein (MSP) is a chemotactic factor that activates the receptor tyrosine kinase RON. The involvement of Ras in MSP-induced signal transduction was investigated. Here we demonstrate that, in RON-transfected MDCK cells, an active GTP-bound form of Ras was rapidly accumulated by MSP treatment and the Ras-guanine nucleotide exchange activity in SOS immunoprecipitates was concomitantly increased. GAP activity was not changed under the same conditions used. Furthermore, the SH2 domain of adaptor protein GRB2, but not Shc, associated with the activated RON-beta chain, and GRB2-SOS complexes translocated from the cytosol to the membrane upon MSP treatment. These results strongly suggest that MSP activates Ras through RON, and that MSP-induced activation of Ras might be controlled by both the enhancement of catalytic exchange activity of SOS and its translocation to the membrane where its target Ras is localized.
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- 1995
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