VAV FAMILY PROTEINS AND CELL SIGNALING AND CANCER

VAV 家族蛋白质、细胞信号传导和癌症

• 批准号: 2011740
• 负责人: XOSE R BUSTELO
• 金额: $ 20.22万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2011740
• 关键词: SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; biological signal transduction; cell proliferation; embryonic stem cell; guanine nucleotide binding protein; high performance liquid chromatography; immunoaffinity chromatography; immunoprecipitation; laboratory mouse; membrane transport proteins; molecular cloning; neoplastic transformation; northern blottings; oncogenes; oncoproteins; phosphorylation; polymerase chain reaction; protein sequence; protein structure function; protein tyrosine kinase; protooncogene; site directed mutagenesis; subtraction hybridization; thin layer chromatography; vertebrate embryology

DESCRIPTION: The vav proto-oncogene encodes a 95 kDa polypeptide, Vav, that is widely distributed among hematopoietic cell types. Furthermore, Vav contains several structural motifs, such as a leucine-rich domain, a Dbl-related region, a pleckstrin domain, a cysteine-rich zinc-butterfly domain, one SH2 and two SH3 domains, all of which suggest that it participates in signal transduction. Recent studies by the applicant suggest that Vav may act as a GDP/GTP exchange factor towards the Rac-1 GTP binding protein and that tyrosine phosphorylation affects this activity of Vav. Moreover, the investigator has begun to characterize another protein that is highly homologous to Vav, namely Vav-2, which is ubiquitously distributed among hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells. Given this background, the overall aim of the present proposal is to establish the mechanisms by which the vav oncogene family (Vav and Vav-2) induces cell proliferation and transformation. Therefore, the following Specific Aims are proposed: 1) To test the hypothesis that tyrosine phosphorylation of Vav and/or its membrane association are essential for Vav activation. 2) To examine whether Vav function is mediated by interactions with GTP-binding proteins and other signaling molecules such as Cbl-2. 3) To evaluate using differential display and subtracted DNA libraries whether the activation of Vav leads to the up-and down-regulation of genes that are important for vav-mediated transformation. 4) To assess using PCR screening and gene targeting approaches whether Vav belongs to a family of oncoproteins that have important roles in development and cell signaling.

描述：vav原癌基因编码一个95 kDa的多肽vav