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GAB2 is involved in differential pi3-kinase signaling by two splice forms of C-kit.

Sun, Jianmin LU ; Pedersen, Malin LU and Rönnstrand, Lars LU orcid (2008) In Journal of Biological Chemistry 283(41). p.27444-27451
Abstract
The stem cell factor receptor/c-Kit plays an important physiological role in hematopoesis, melanogenesis and gametogenesis. It has also been implicated in numerous human malignancies. Signal transduction pathways shown to be of importance for c-Kit mediated transformation include the PI3-kinase/Akt pathway. We have previously shown that two alternative splice forms of c-Kit, denoted GNNK- and GNNK+ respectively, mediate distinctively different signals. In this study we find that in the hematopoietic cell line Ba/F3, the GNNK- c-Kit mediates a substantially stronger activation of PI3-kinase/Akt than the GNNK+ c-Kit. This difference in signaling was shown to be dependent on the association of the scaffolding protein Gab2 to c-Kit and... (More)
The stem cell factor receptor/c-Kit plays an important physiological role in hematopoesis, melanogenesis and gametogenesis. It has also been implicated in numerous human malignancies. Signal transduction pathways shown to be of importance for c-Kit mediated transformation include the PI3-kinase/Akt pathway. We have previously shown that two alternative splice forms of c-Kit, denoted GNNK- and GNNK+ respectively, mediate distinctively different signals. In this study we find that in the hematopoietic cell line Ba/F3, the GNNK- c-Kit mediates a substantially stronger activation of PI3-kinase/Akt than the GNNK+ c-Kit. This difference in signaling was shown to be dependent on the association of the scaffolding protein Gab2 to c-Kit and Src-mediated phosphorylation of Gab2, to be independent of the direct association of PI3-kinase with c-Kit. Furthermore, proliferation and survival of Ba/F3 cells expressing a mutant of c-Kit that fails to bind to PI3-kinase directly was slightly decreased compared to wild-type c-Kit expressing cells. Using siRNA technology we further verified a role of Gab2 in inducing activation of PI3-kinase/Akt downstream of c-Kit. To summarize, we show that PI3-kinase activation by c-Kit is both splice form dependent and cell type specific. Furthermore, activation of PI3-kinase by c-Kit is dependent both on the direct PI3-kinase binding site in c-Kit as well as on the phosphorylation of Gab2. The fact that c-Kit has been found mutated in numerous human malignancies including acute myeloid leukemia and that Gab2 often is overexpressed in acute myeloid leukemia suggests a potential role of Gab2 mediated PI3-kinase activation in transformation. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{The stem cell factor receptor/c-Kit plays an important physiological role in hematopoesis, melanogenesis and gametogenesis. It has also been implicated in numerous human malignancies. Signal transduction pathways shown to be of importance for c-Kit mediated transformation include the PI3-kinase/Akt pathway. We have previously shown that two alternative splice forms of c-Kit, denoted GNNK- and GNNK+ respectively, mediate distinctively different signals. In this study we find that in the hematopoietic cell line Ba/F3, the GNNK- c-Kit mediates a substantially stronger activation of PI3-kinase/Akt than the GNNK+ c-Kit. This difference in signaling was shown to be dependent on the association of the scaffolding protein Gab2 to c-Kit and Src-mediated phosphorylation of Gab2, to be independent of the direct association of PI3-kinase with c-Kit. Furthermore, proliferation and survival of Ba/F3 cells expressing a mutant of c-Kit that fails to bind to PI3-kinase directly was slightly decreased compared to wild-type c-Kit expressing cells. Using siRNA technology we further verified a role of Gab2 in inducing activation of PI3-kinase/Akt downstream of c-Kit. To summarize, we show that PI3-kinase activation by c-Kit is both splice form dependent and cell type specific. Furthermore, activation of PI3-kinase by c-Kit is dependent both on the direct PI3-kinase binding site in c-Kit as well as on the phosphorylation of Gab2. The fact that c-Kit has been found mutated in numerous human malignancies including acute myeloid leukemia and that Gab2 often is overexpressed in acute myeloid leukemia suggests a potential role of Gab2 mediated PI3-kinase activation in transformation.}},
  author       = {{Sun, Jianmin and Pedersen, Malin and Rönnstrand, Lars}},
  issn         = {{1083-351X}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{41}},
  pages        = {{27444--27451}},
  publisher    = {{American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}},
  series       = {{Journal of Biological Chemistry}},
  title        = {{GAB2 is involved in differential pi3-kinase signaling by two splice forms of C-kit.}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5152086/4144977.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1074/jbc.M709703200}},
  volume       = {{283}},
  year         = {{2008}},
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