Functional Insights Into Oncogenic Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases By Mass Spectrometry

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2012-12
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2012
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Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Indiana University
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Phosphatase of Regenerating Liver 3 (PRL3) is suspected to be a causative factor toward cellular metastasis when overexpressed. To date, the molecular basis for PRL3 function remains an enigma, justifying the use of 'shot-gun'-style phosphoproteomic strategies to define the PRL3-mediated signaling network. On the basis of aberrant Src tyrosine kinase activation following ectopic PRL3 expression, phosphoproteomic data reveal a signal transduction network downstream of a mitogenic and chemotactic PDGF (α and β), Eph (A2, B3, B4), and Integrin (β1 and β5) receptor array known to be utilized by migratory mesenchymal cells during development and acute wound healing in the adult animal. Tyrosine phosphorylation is present on a multitude of signaling effectors responsible for Rho-family GTPase, PI3K-Akt, Jak-STAT3, and Ras-ERK1/2 pathway activation, linking observations made by the field as a whole under Src as a primary signal transducer. Our phosphoproteomic data paint the most comprehensive picture to date of how PRL3 drives pro-metastatic molecular events through Src activation. The Src-homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase 2 (SHP2), encoded by the Ptpn11 gene, is a bona-fide proto-oncogene responsible for the activation of the Ras/ERK1/2 pathway following mitogen stimulation. The molecular basis for SHP2 function is pTyr-ligand-mediated alleviation of intramolecular autoinhibition by the N-terminal SH2 domain (N-SH2 domain) upon the PTP catalytic domain. Pathogenic mutations that reside within the interface region between the N-SH2 and PTP domains are postulated to weaken the autoinhibitory interaction leading to SHP2 catalytic activation in the open conformation. Conversely, a subset of mutations resides within the catalytic active site and cause catalytic impairment. These catalytically impaired SHP2 mutants potentiate the pathogenesis of LEOPARD-syndrome (LS), a neuro-cardio-facial-cutaneous (NCFC) syndrome with very similar clinical presentation to related Noonan syndrome (NS), which is known to be caused by gain-of-function (GOF) SHP2 mutants. Here we apply hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (H/DX-MS) to provide direct evidence that LS-associated SHP2 mutations which cause catalytic impairment also weaken the autoinhibitory interaction that the N-SH2 domain makes with the PTP domain. Our H/DX-MS study shows that LS-SHP2 mutants possess a biophysical property that is absolutely required for GOF-effects to be realized, in-vivo.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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