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Differential activity of c-KIT splice forms is controlled by extracellular peptide insert length.

Phung, Bengt LU ; Steingrímsson, Eiríkur and Rönnstrand, Lars LU orcid (2013) In Cellular Signalling 25(11). p.2231-2238
Abstract
Understanding receptor activation is important for disease intervention. Activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase c-KIT is involved in numerous diseases including melanoma, mastocytosis, multiple myeloma and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. To better understand the regulation of activation, we studied the two c-KIT isoforms, c-KIT(-) and c-KIT(+) which differ by a tetrapeptide insert GNNK, located in the extracellular juxtamembrane domain of the c-KIT(+) isoform. This region is important for regulating receptor activation. Here we show that the consecutive elimination of one amino acid at a time from the GNNK tetrapeptide insert gradually increases receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, ubiquitination, internalization and downstream MAP... (More)
Understanding receptor activation is important for disease intervention. Activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase c-KIT is involved in numerous diseases including melanoma, mastocytosis, multiple myeloma and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. To better understand the regulation of activation, we studied the two c-KIT isoforms, c-KIT(-) and c-KIT(+) which differ by a tetrapeptide insert GNNK, located in the extracellular juxtamembrane domain of the c-KIT(+) isoform. This region is important for regulating receptor activation. Here we show that the consecutive elimination of one amino acid at a time from the GNNK tetrapeptide insert gradually increases receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, ubiquitination, internalization and downstream MAP kinase-ERK activation. Successively decreasing the insert length progressively improves cell survival during drug treatment. Our results indicate that the length of the tetrapeptide fine-tunes receptor activity, thus providing deeper insight into c-KIT activation. (Less)
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10.1016/j.cellsig.2013.07.011
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  series       = {{Cellular Signalling}},
  title        = {{Differential activity of c-KIT splice forms is controlled by extracellular peptide insert length.}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.cellsig.2013.07.011}},
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