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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
Clustering of several multisubunit receptors on hematopoetic cells results in a signaling cascade involving the phosphorylation of immunoreceptor tyrosine activation motifs, or "ITAMs," and actin polymerization. Recent experiments indicate that direct clustering of the ITAM-binding protein, p72(syk) (Syk), is capable of transmitting a phagocytic signal in COS cells (Greenberg, S., Chang, P., Wang, D., Xavier, R., and Seed, B.(1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 93, 1103-1107). However, the possibility of redundant signaling pathways makes it difficult to test the requirement for Syk in ITAM-dependent actin polymerization in hematopoetic cells. We developed a model system to study ITAM-dependent actin assembly. DT40 lymphocytes were transfected with fusion proteins encoding the transmembrane and cytosolic domains of the ITAM-containing gamma subunit of Fc receptors. Clustering the gamma-containing fusion proteins with IgG-coated erythrocytes triggered submembranous actin assembly. This response depended on an intact ITAM, was absent in cell lines that had been engineered to lack Syk, and was augmented in cell lines that stably overexpressed Syk. These experiments demonstrate an absolute requirement for Syk tyrosine kinase in ITAM-dependent actin assembly in transfected lymphocytes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
16597-602
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Syk tyrosine kinase is required for immunoreceptor tyrosine activation motif-dependent actin assembly.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA. Pearl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't