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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 40, 28356-28362, October 1, 1999

Mutagenesis Reveals a Role for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Extracellular Subdomain IV in Ligand Binding

Marian L. Saxon and David C. Lee^¶

From the ^¶ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the  Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7260

The extracellular domain of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGFR) comprises four subdomains (I-IV) and mediates binding of several different polypeptide ligands, including EGF, transforming growth factor-, and heparin-binding EGF. Previous studies have predominantly implicated subdomain III in ligand binding. To investigate a possible role for sequences in subdomain IV, we constructed several mutant EGFRs in which clusters of charged or aromatic amino acids were replaced with alanine. Analysis of stably transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing mutant EGFRs confirmed that they were present on the cell surface at levels approaching that of the wild-type receptor. Although tyrosine phosphorylation of most mutants was markedly induced by EGF, a cluster mutation (mt25) containing four alanine substitutions in the span of residues 521-527 failed to respond. EGF-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of an alternative mutant (EN) with amino acids 518-589 deleted was also greatly diminished. Larger doses of EGF or heparin-binding EGF induced only weak tyrosine phosphorylation of mt25, whereas the response to transforming growth factor- was undetectable. These results suggest that mt25 might be defective with respect to either ligand binding or receptor dimerization. Quantitative analyses showed that binding of ¹²⁵I-EGF to mt25 and EN was reduced to near background levels, whereas binding of EGF to other cluster mutants was reduced 60-70% compared with wild-type levels. Among the mutants, only mt25 and EN failed to form homodimers or to transphosphorylate HER2/Neu in response to EGF treatment. Collectively, our results are the first to provide direct evidence that discrete subdomain IV residues are required for normal binding of EGF family ligands. Significantly, they were obtained with the full-length receptor in vivo, rather than a soluble truncated receptor, which has been frequently used for structure/function studies of the EGFR extracellular region.

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