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Mol. Cell. Biol., 01 1997, 427-435, Vol 17, No. 1
R O'Connor, A Kauffmann-Zeh, Y Liu, S Lehar, GI Evan, R Baserga and WA Blattler
Using a series of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptor mutants, we
have attempted to define domains required for transmitting the
antiapoptotic signal from the receptor and to compare these domains with
those required for mitogenesis or transformation. In FL5.12 cells
transfected with wild-type IGF-I receptors, IGF-I affords protection from
interleukin 3 withdrawal but is not mitogenic. An IGF-I receptor lacking a
functional ATP binding site provided no protection from apoptosis. However,
receptors mutated at tyrosine residue 950 or in the tyrosine cluster (1131,
1135, and 1136) within the kinase domain remained capable of suppressing
apoptosis, although such mutations are known to inactivate transforming and
mitogenic functions. In the C terminus of the IGF-I receptor, two
mutations, one at tyrosine 1251 and one which replaced residues histidine
1293 and lysine 1294, abolished the antiapoptotic function, whereas
mutation of the four serines at 1280 to 1283 did not. Interestingly,
receptors truncated at the C terminus had enhanced antiapoptotic function.
In Rat-1/ c-MycER fibroblasts, the Y950F mutant and the tyrosine cluster
mutant could still provide protection from c-Myc-induced apoptosis, whereas
mutant Y1250/1251F could not. These studies demonstrate that the domains of
the IGF-I receptor required for its antiapoptotic function are distinct
from those required for its proliferation or transformation functions and
suggest that domains of the receptor required for inhibition of apoptosis
are necessary but not sufficient for transformation.
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Identification of domains of the insulin-like growth factor I receptor that are required for protection from apoptosis
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