PMID- 22223753 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120531 LR - 20211203 IS - 1530-6860 (Electronic) IS - 0892-6638 (Linking) VI - 26 IP - 4 DP - 2012 Apr TI - Met degradation: more than one stone to shoot a receptor down. PG - 1387-99 LID - 10.1096/fj.11-197723 [doi] AB - The receptor tyrosine kinase Met and its high-affinity ligand, the hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF), are essential to embryonic development. Deregulation of their signaling is associated with tumorigenesis and metastasis, notably through receptor overexpression. It is thus important to understand the mechanisms controlling Met expression. The ligand-dependent internalization of Met and its subsequent degradation in the lysosomal compartment are well described. This process is known to attenuate downstream Met signaling pathways. Yet internalized Met takes part directly in intracellular signaling by chaperoning signaling factors in the course of its trafficking. Furthermore, recent studies describe various new degradation mechanisms of membrane-anchored Met, involving proteolytic cleavages or association with novel partners. Although all these degradations are ligand-independent, they share, to different extents, some common features with canonical HGF/SF-dependent degradation. Interestingly, activated Met variants display resistance to degradation, suggesting defective degradation is involved in tumorigenesis. Conversely, forced degradation of Met through reinduction of one or more degradation pathways is a promising therapeutic strategy. FAU - Lefebvre, Jonathan AU - Lefebvre J AD - CNRS UMR 8161, Institut de Biologie de Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, B.P.447, 59021 Lille, France. FAU - Ancot, Frederic AU - Ancot F FAU - Leroy, Catherine AU - Leroy C FAU - Muharram, Ghaffar AU - Muharram G FAU - Lemiere, Arnaud AU - Lemiere A FAU - Tulasne, David AU - Tulasne D LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20120105 PL - United States TA - FASEB J JT - FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology JID - 8804484 RN - 0 (Leucine-Rich Repeat Proteins) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 67256-21-7 (Hepatocyte Growth Factor) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Hepatocyte Growth Factor/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Leucine-Rich Repeat Proteins MH - Ligands MH - Lysosomes/metabolism MH - Neoplasms/metabolism/therapy MH - Proteins/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met/genetics/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/*physiology EDAT- 2012/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2012/06/01 06:00 CRDT- 2012/01/07 06:00 PHST- 2012/01/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/06/01 06:00 [medline] AID - fj.11-197723 [pii] AID - 10.1096/fj.11-197723 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FASEB J. 2012 Apr;26(4):1387-99. doi: 10.1096/fj.11-197723. Epub 2012 Jan 5.