The Journal of Immunology, Vol 150, Issue 2 377-386, Copyright © 1993 by American Association of Immunologists

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Targets of B lymphocyte antigen receptor signal transduction include the p21ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP) and two GAP-associated proteins

MR Gold, MT Crowley, GA Martin, F McCormick and AL DeFranco
George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94143.

Cross-linking membrane Ig (mIg) on B cells stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins involved in signal transduction including the mIg-associated proteins Ig-alpha and Ig-beta, the tyrosine kinases p53/p56lyn, p55blk, p59fyn, and PTK72, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, phospholipase C gamma 1 and gamma 2, and the mitogen-activated protein kinase. We now show that the p21ras GTPase-activating protein (GAP) is also a substrate for mIg-activated tyrosine kinases. p21ras is a key regulator of cell growth and GAP may act as both a regulator of p21ras activity and as a downstream effector of p21ras. We found that mIg cross-linking caused a rapid increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of GAP in the immature B cell line WEHI-231, the mature B cell lines BAL 17 and Daudi, and the IgG-bearing B cell line A20. In fibroblasts, tyrosine kinase activation causes GAP to associate with two other tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, p62 and p190, which have homologies to an RNA-binding protein and a transcriptional repressor, respectively. Similarly, mlg cross-linking induced the association of GAP with a 62-kDa tyrosine-phosphorylated protein in BAL 17, WEHI-231, and Daudi cells. Anti-Ig treatment also increased the amount of a 190- kDa tyrosine-phosphorylated protein associated with GAP in WEHI-231 and Daudi cells. After separation by SDS-PAGE and transfer to nitrocellulose, the tyrosine-phosphorylated p62 and p190 present in anti-GAP immunoprecipitates from B cells were capable of binding radiolabeled recombinant GAP, as previously reported for the GAP- associated p62 and p190 from fibroblasts. The amount of p62 that could be detected in this way after immunoprecipitation with antiphosphotyrosine antibodies was much greater from anti-IgM-treated BAL 17 cells than from unstimulated BAL 17 cells. This probably reflects anti-Ig-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of p62. In any case, GAP, p62, and/or p190 may be involved in signal transduction by mIg in B cells.

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