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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 15, 9900-9906, May, 1991

Insulin-EGF receptor chimerae mediate tyrosine transphosphorylation and serine/threonine phosphorylation of kinase-deficient EGF receptors

S Tartare, R Ballotti, R Lammers, F Alengrin, T Dull, J Schlessinger, A Ullrich and E Van Obberghen
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale U145, Faculte de Medecine, Nice, France.

To study cross-talk between unoccupied epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors and activated EGF receptor kinases, we have used double- transfected cells, IHE2 cells, expressing both an enzymatically active insulin-EGF chimeric receptor and an inactive kinase EGF receptor mutant. Using immunoaffinity-purified receptors, we show that insulin increased phosphorylation of the insulin-EGF chimeric beta subunit and of the kinase-deficient EGF receptor. Stimulation of intact IHE2 cells with insulin leads to a rapid tyrosine autophosphorylation of the insulin-EGF chimeric beta subunit and to tyrosine phosphorylation of the unoccupied kinase-deficient EGF receptor. Insulin-stimulated transphosphorylation of the kinase-deficient EGF receptor yields the same pattern of tryptic phosphopeptides as those in EGF-induced autophosphorylation of the wild-type human EGF receptor. We conclude that insulin, through activation of the insulin-EGF chimeric receptor, mediates transphosphorylation of the kinase-deficient EGF receptor, further confirming that EGF receptor autophosphorylation may proceed by an intermolecular mechanism. In addition to receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, we find that exposure of cells to insulin results in enhanced phosphorylation on serine and threonine residues of the unoccupied kinase-deficient EGF receptor. These results suggest that insulin-EGF chimeric receptor activation stimulates at least one serine/threonine kinase, which in turn phosphorylates the kinase- deficient EGF receptor. Finally, we show that transphosphorylation and coexpression of an active kinase cause a decrease in the number of cell surface kinase-deficient EGF receptors without increasing their degradation rate.
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