Volume 272, Number 29, Issue of July 18, 1997 pp. 18498-18503
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

Oligomerization of the Fes Tyrosine Kinase
EVIDENCE FOR A COILED-COIL DOMAIN IN THE UNIQUE N-TERMINAL REGION

(Received for publication, May 5, 1997)

From the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6805

The c-fes proto-oncogene encodes a non-receptor tyrosine kinase (Fes) that has been implicated in cytokine receptor signal transduction and myeloid differentiation. Previous work from our laboratory has shown that Fes autophosphorylates via an intermolecular mechanism more commonly associated with growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases. Analysis of the Fes amino acid sequence with the COILS algorithm indicates that the N-terminal region of the protein has a very high probability of forming coiled-coil structures often associated with oligomeric proteins. These findings suggest that oligomerization may be a prerequisite for trans-autophosphorylation and activation of Fes. To establish whether the active form of Fes is oligomeric, we performed gel-filtration experiments with recombinant Fes and found that it eluted as a single symmetrical peak of approximately 500 kDa. No evidence of the monomeric, 93-kDa form of the protein was observed. Deletion of the unique N-terminal domain (amino acids 1-450, including the coiled-coil homology region) completely abolished the formation of oligomers. Furthermore, co-precipitation assays demonstrated that an immobilized glutathione S-transferase fusion protein containing the Fes N-terminal region bound to full-length Fes but not to a mutant lacking the N-terminal region. Similarly, a recombinant Fes N-terminal domain protein was readily cross-linked in vitro, whereas the SH2 and kinase domains were refractory to cross-linking. Incubation of wild-type Fes with a kinase-inactive Fes mutant or with the isolated N-terminal region suppressed Fes autophosphorylation in vitro, suggesting that oligomerization may be essential for autophosphorylation of full-length Fes. The presence of an oligomerization function in the Fes family of tyrosine kinases suggests a novel mechanism for non-receptor protein-tyrosine kinase regulation.

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