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. 1994 Jan 1;83(1):137-45.

Ligand-dependent polyubiquitination of c-kit gene product: a possible mechanism of receptor down modulation in M07e cells

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Ligand-dependent polyubiquitination of c-kit gene product: a possible mechanism of receptor down modulation in M07e cells

K Miyazawa et al. Blood. .
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Abstract

Quantities of proteins in cells are balanced by protein synthesis and degradation. Protein ubiquitination is an important adenosine-triphosphate dependent proteolytic pathway for "short-lived" proteins. We show that soluble steel-factor (SLF) stimulation at 37 degrees C rapidly induced polyubiquitination of c-kit protein in growth-factor-dependent human-myeloid cell line M07e, resulting in smeared, retarded migration of c-kit protein in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the molecular weight region of 145 kD. Receptor ubiquitination was almost completely absent when cells were treated with SLF at 4 degrees C or at 37 degrees C in the presence of 0.2% sodium azide, or when the cells were pretreated with anti-c-kit monoclonal antibody or genistein, a tyrosine-kinase inhibitor. This suggested that c-kit ubiquitination was ligand dependent and appeared to require intrinsic tyrosine-kinase activation of the c-kit protein. Flow-cytometric analysis of c-kit expression on the cell surface of M07e cells showed down modulation of c-kit within 5 minutes after soluble-SLF treatment at 37 degrees C. However, rapid receptor down modulation was almost completely suppressed when cells were treated with SLF at 4 degrees C or at 37 degrees C in the presence of 0.2% sodium azide, conditions that concomitantly suppressed polyubiquitination of c-kit protein. In addition, these conditions almost completely suppressed radiolabeled SLF (125I-SLF) internalization after ligand-receptor interaction. Pulse-chase studies of 35S-methionine-labeled c-kit protein showed that SLF stimulation at 37 degrees C strikingly enhanced c-kit degradation (T1/2; approximately 20 minutes) compared with that in cells stimulated with SLF at 4 degrees C or at 37 degrees C with 0.2% sodium azide. However, in the presence of chloroquine, which blocks lysosomal degradation, this ligand-induced c-kit degradation at 37 degrees C was only suppressed in part. These data suggest that SLF-induced polyubiquitination of the c-kit receptor protein may play a role in regulation of c-kit-encoded protein-receptor expression in M07e cells.

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