active mutant of the EGFR known as the EGFRvIII. The overexpression of Cbl, Cbl b, or Cbl c caused a decrease in the level of EGFRvIII protein in CHO cells . We observed also that the co expression of the Cbl proteins enhanced the ubiquitination of the EGFRvIII . This downregulation of the EGFRvIII by Cbl b was blocked by the Dub inhibitor use of an EGFR TK inhibitor, AG 1478 , and by the Y1045F mutation of the EGFRvIII . As in the active WT EGFR, Y1045 is phosphorylated in the EGFRvIII and the Y1045F mutation prevents phosphorylation of this residue . This prevents the direct binding of the Cbl proteins, the only proteins known to interact with this phosphotyrosine residue in cells. The abrogation of the interaction of the EGFRvIII with endogenous Cbl proteins by either EGFRvIII Y1045F mutation or TK inhibition blocks EGFRvIII downregulation.
Therefore, it appears that the Cbl proteins mediate the activation induced downregulation of the EGFRvIII. The ligand induced activation of the WT EGFR results in its autophosphorylation and the subsequent Dub inhibitor recruitment of Cbl b . Therefore, we investigated the interaction between the EGFRvIII and Cbl b using a cell line that expresses endogenous EGFR and a cell line that does not . We observed an association between the EGFRvIII and Cbl b in both of these cell lines . The interaction between the EGFRvIII and Cbl b in HEK 293T cells appears to be unaffected by the activation of WT EGFR by EGF. In addition, the co transfection of the WT EGFR and the EGFRvIII into CHO cells did not appear to prevent the downregulation of either of these proteins by Cbl b .
Therefore, it appears that the constitutive association Dasatinib between Cbl b and the EGFRvIII is independent of the WT EGFR. Like the WT EGFR, we found that the recruitment of Cbl b to the EGFRvIII involves two mechanisms: one that involves the TKB domain of Cblb, the other that involves the proline rich carboxy terminus of Cbl b. Using the end point of receptor degradation, we found that the EGFRvIII is downregulated by both WT Cbl b and a truncated form of Cbl b that contains its TKB and RING finger domains, but not its extensive proline rich carboxy terminus . Mutation of the Cbl TKB binding site in the WT EGFR impairs the ligand induced ubiquitination and downregulation of the EGFR . When we mutated the equivalent residue in the EGFRvIII, we prevented the ubiquitination and downregulation of this receptor by N1 2 Cbl b .
However, the mutation of this residue does not appear to have as significant an effect upon the interaction between the EGFRvIII and WT Cbl b. As the proline rich region of the Cbl proteins can indirectly bind to the WT EGFR via Grb2 , this is likely also the case with the EGFRvIII. The EGFRvIII has been shown to bind NSCLC to Grb2 in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts . Interestingly, Dasatinib stable clones of NIH 3T3 cells expressing high levels of the EGFRvIII have decreased levels of Grb2 protein . This is consistent with the ability of the Cbl proteins to downregulate the EGFR signaling complex, including Grb2 . In contrast to the present study, Schmidt et al. reported that the EGFRvIII does not interact with either Cbl or Cbl b.
In their investigation, HEK 293 cells were transfected with EGFRvIII and either Cbl or Cbl b. Then the EGFRvIII was precipitated with an anti EGFRvIIIspecific antibody. Although they observed the co precipitation of both Cbl and Cbl b with the Deubiquitinase inhibitor EGFRvIII, the WT EGFR was also precipitated in their experiments. They concluded that the anti EGFRvIII antibody was crossreacting with the WT receptor, so in subsequent experiments they precleared the lysate with an anti EGFR antibody before the precipitation of the EGFRvIII. Following preclearing of the lysates, they failed to observe either Cbl or Cbl b when the EGFRvIII was precipitated. In addition, they were also unable to observe any ubiquitination of the EGFRvIII following this preclearing. As the EGFRvIII and the WT EGFR are capable of heterodimerizing , it is possible that this preclearing step removed any of the EGFRvIII that is bound to the WT EGFR.
Dasatinib As this heterodimerized protein may be the active pool of the EGFRvIII, this could account for any differences between the two studies. Our Dasatinib experiments in CHO cells, which do not express the WT EGFR, allowed us to investigate the interaction between the EGFRvIII and the Cbl proteins in the absence of the WT receptor. In addition, we used a mutant of Cbl b deficient in E3 activity to test an interaction between the EGFRvIII and Cbl b in CHO cells. As this mutant cannot target the complex of Cbl b and the EGFRvIII for lysosomal degradation, the amount of active EGFRvIII bound to Cbl b should be increased relative to cells transfected with WT Cbl b. Therefore, any association between these proteins should be detected with a greater sensitivity than if WT Cbl b was used. Only a small fraction of the EGFRvIII protein is active at any given time compared to the WT EGFR that has been stimulated by EGF . Thus, it is possible that
Monday, June 17, 2013
Grimy Facts About Dasatinib Deubiquitinase inhibitor Revealed
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