Tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha-tubulin is an early response to NGF and pp60v-src in PC12 cells.
Tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha-tubulin is an early response to NGF and pp60v-src in PC12 cells.
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α-微管蛋白的酪氨酸磷酸化是 PC12 细胞中对 NGF 和 pp60v-src 的早期反应。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02782119
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发表时间:
1993
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Maness,PF
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作者:
Cox,ME;Maness,PF
Neuronal differentiation is accompanied by extensive reorganization of the cytoskeleton to initiate the extension of neuritic processes. We have used the rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cell line to examine the role of protein tyrosine kinase activity in the induction of these events. Immunoblotting with phosphotyrosine antibodies revealed that tyrosine phosphorylation of α-tubulin in PC12 cells occurred within 10 min of nerve growth factor (NGF) treatment. Tyrosine phosphorylation of α-tubulin also occurred on induction of pp60v-srcexpression in a PC12 cell line (PC12-B9) harboring an inducible v-srcgene under transcriptional control of the mouse metallothionine I gene promoter. Two tyrosine phosphorylated proteins in NGF-and pp60v-srcinduced PC12 cells were identified as α-tubulin isoforms by comigration with α-tubulin on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and by immunoprecipitation with phosphotyrosine antibodies followed by immunoblotting with a monoclonal antibody specific for α-tubulin. These results demonstrate that α-tubulin is an in vivo tyrosine kinase substrate, which is phosphorylated as an early event in the neuronal differentiation pathway of PC12 cells in response to NGF or pp60v-src. Tyrosine phosphorylation of α-tubulin could conceivably alter microtubule dynamics during induction of neurite extension.