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Ligand-induced internalization of the epidermal growth factor receptor is mediated by multiple endocytic codes analogous to the tyrosine motif found in constitutively internalized receptors
Ist Teil von
The Journal of biological chemistry, 1993-09, Vol.268 (26), p.19312-19320
Ort / Verlag
Bethesda, MD: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Erscheinungsjahr
1993
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Ligand-induced internalization of epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptors via a high affinity saturable pathway requires sequences
located in the carboxyl terminus distal to the tyrosine kinase domain. Three regions were found to contain endocytic motifs
as defined by their ability to restore internalization function to EGF receptors truncated at the distal border of the kinase
domain at residue 958. Deletional analysis identified the sequence 996QQGFF as essential for function of the region encompassing
residues 993-1022. QQGFF and the deduced sequence of the region encompassing residues 973-991 (973FYRAL) could effectively
replace the endogenous endocytic code of the transferrin receptor (YTRF). FYRAL and YTRF were less active than QQGFF when
substituted into region 993-1022 of the EGF receptor, but a synthetic sequence (NNAYF), predicted to have structural features
of a tight turn, effectively replaced QQGFF for EGF receptor internalization. Whereas EGF receptor sequences functioned effectively
in the transferrin receptor, function of these sequences in the EGF receptor was strictly dependent on intrinsic tyrosine
kinase activity as demonstrated kinetically and by immunofluorescence using semithin cryosections. Ligand-dependent endocytosis
and down-regulation of the EGF receptor thus require multiple sequence motifs that are exchangeable between ligand-dependent
and -independent receptors, but that require intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity for function in the context of the EGF receptor.