PMID- 19450681 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090814 LR - 20161125 IS - 1873-3913 (Electronic) IS - 0898-6568 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 9 DP - 2009 Sep TI - Phosphorylation of the MET receptor on juxtamembrane tyrosine residue 1001 inhibits its caspase-dependent cleavage. PG - 1455-63 LID - 10.1016/j.cellsig.2009.05.005 [doi] AB - The MET tyrosine kinase is the hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) receptor, which elicits multiple biological responses in epithelial cells, including cell survival. We previously demonstrated that in stress conditions, the MET receptor is cleaved by caspases within its juxtamembrane region, generating a pro-apoptotic intracellular fragment of 40 kDa. The caspase cleavage site at aspartic acid D1000 is adjacent to tyrosine Y1001, which when phosphorylated upon MET activation, is involved in CBL recruitment, allowing receptor ubiquitination and down regulation. Scanning mutagenesis of the MET juxtamembrane region led us to demonstrate that V999 and D1000 are essential for the caspase cleavage, while D1000 and Y1001 are essential for CBL recruitment. By examining whether overlapping of these sites leads to a functional interference, an inverse relationship was found between generation of p40 MET and phosphorylation of MET, with a direct involvement of phosphorylated Y1001 in protecting MET against its caspase cleavage. A molecular modeling analysis of caspase 3 interaction with the juxtamembrane region of MET confirmed that phosphorylation of this tyrosine is not compatible with its recognition by active caspase 3. These data demonstrate a direct protection mechanism of an activated phosphorylated MET receptor, against its caspase-dependent cleavage. FAU - Deheuninck, Julien AU - Deheuninck J AD - CNRS UMR 8161, Institut de Biologie de Lille, Universite Lille-Nord de France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, IFR142, LILLE, France. FAU - Goormachtigh, Gautier AU - Goormachtigh G FAU - Foveau, Benedicte AU - Foveau B FAU - Ji, Zongling AU - Ji Z FAU - Leroy, Catherine AU - Leroy C FAU - Ancot, Frederic AU - Ancot F FAU - Villeret, Vincent AU - Villeret V FAU - Tulasne, David AU - Tulasne D FAU - Fafeur, Veronique AU - Fafeur V LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090518 PL - England TA - Cell Signal JT - Cellular signalling JID - 8904683 RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins) RN - 0 (Receptors, Growth Factor) RN - 42HK56048U (Tyrosine) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (MET protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspases) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Caspases/*metabolism MH - Cell Line MH - Cell Membrane/physiology MH - Computer Simulation MH - Dogs MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-cbl/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met MH - Receptors, Growth Factor/*metabolism MH - Tyrosine/*metabolism MH - Ubiquitination EDAT- 2009/05/20 09:00 MHDA- 2009/08/15 09:00 CRDT- 2009/05/20 09:00 PHST- 2009/04/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2009/05/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2009/05/20 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/05/20 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/08/15 09:00 [medline] AID - S0898-6568(09)00169-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cellsig.2009.05.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Signal. 2009 Sep;21(9):1455-63. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2009.05.005. Epub 2009 May 18.