The effect of activating mutations on dimerization, tyrosine phosphorylation and internalization of the macrophage colony stimulating factor receptor.
AUTOR(ES)
Carlberg, K
RESUMO
Oncogenic activation of the macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) receptor (c-Fms) requires mutation or truncation of the carboxyl terminus and specific amino acid substitutions in or near the fourth immunoglobulin (Ig)-like loop in the extracellular domain. Using a murine c-Fms system, we investigated the effect of C-terminal truncation, substitutions at amino acids 301 and 374 in the fourth Ig-like loop of the extracellular domain, or the combined mutations on individual steps in receptor activation. The mutations at amino acids 301 and 374 were necessary, but not sufficient, for receptor dimerization in the absence of M-CSF. Only receptors with a truncated C-terminus as well as the extracellular domain mutations dimerized efficiently in the absence of M-CSF, suggesting that the C-terminus of c-Fms also regulates receptor oligomerization. Truncation of the C-terminus alone did not cause receptor dimerization and did not activate the kinase enzymatic activity. Thus, truncation of the C-terminus did not activate receptor monomers in cis. Receptors with both a truncated C-terminus and the extracellular domain mutations underwent ligand-independent aggregation, transphosphorylation, and phosphorylation of cellular proteins, followed by rapid internalization and degradation. These results suggest that M-CSF binding to c-Fms initiates activation by inducing conformational changes in both the cytoplasmic C-terminal domain and the fourth Ig-like loop of the extracellular domain, leading to the formation of stable receptor dimers.
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