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  • Title: The amino-terminal half of pp59c-fyn contains sequences necessary for formation of a 75 kDa form and also repressive elements absent in pp60c-src.
    Author: Espino PC, Chou WY, Smith AE, Cheng SH.
    Journal: Oncogene; 1992 Feb; 7(2):317-22. PubMed ID: 1372400.
    Abstract:
    Members of the src family of tyrosine kinases are composed of amino acid sequences which can be divided into three regions: the unique amino-terminal 80 residues; the next 180 residues of conserved but non-catalytic sequence; and the catalytic carboxy-terminal half of the molecule. To characterize the elements that regulate the catalytic and transforming activities of two members of this family, pp59c-fyn and pp60c-src, we generated six chimeric proteins by interchanging the three regions of the 531F mutant of pp59c-fyn and of the 527F mutant of pp60c-src. Our data indicate that substituting all or part of the amino-terminal 263 residues of pp59c-fyn for those of 527F inhibited the kinase and transforming activities of 527F. Conversely, substituting the amino-terminal half of pp60c-src for that of 531F resulted in an increase in the transforming potential of 531F. These results suggest that the amino-terminal half of pp59c-fyn contains elements which act to suppress the catalytic and transforming activities of the enzyme and that these suppressive elements are either absent or inactive in pp60c-src. These differences argue that the src family of tyrosine kinases are regulated differently in the cell. In vitro translation of some of the chimeras in rabbit reticulocyte lysates generated a 75 kDa protein in addition to the expected 59 kDa product. This 75 kDa species is analogous to the p75 protein previously detected in wild-type pp59c-fyn translation products. Interestingly, formation of p75 required the presence of DNA sequences encoding the unique amino-terminal residues of pp59c-fyn.
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