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Mol Cell Biol, February 1998, p. 771-778, Vol. 18, No. 2
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
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N Terminus of Sos1 Ras Exchange Factor: Critical Roles for the Dbl and Pleckstrin Homology Domains

Xiaolan Qian, William C. Vass, Alex G. Papageorge, Pieter H. Anborgh, and Douglas R. Lowy*

Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Received 13 August 1997/Returned for modification 25 September 1997/Accepted 4 November 1997

We have studied the functional importance of the N terminus of mouse Sos1 (mSos1), a ubiquitously expressed Ras-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor whose C-terminal sequences bind Grb-2. Consistent with previous reports, addition of a myristoylation signal to mSos1 (MyrSos1) rendered it transforming for NIH 3T3 cells and deletion of the mSos C terminus (MyrSos1-Delta C) did not interfere with this activity. However, an N-terminally deleted myristoylated mSos1 protein (MyrSos1-Delta N) was transformation defective, although the protein was stable and localized to the membrane. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to examine the role of the Dbl and pleckstrin homology (PH) domains located in the N terminus. When mutations in the PH domain were introduced into two conserved amino acids either singly or together in MyrSos1 or MyrSos1-Delta C, the transforming activity was severely impaired. An analogous reduction in biological activity was seen when a cluster of point mutations was engineered into the Dbl domain. The mitogen-activation protein (MAP) kinase activities induced by the various Dbl and PH mutants of MyrSos1 correlated with their biological activities. When NIH 3T3 cells were transfected with a myristoylated Sos N terminus, their growth response to epidermal growth factor (EGF), platelet-derived growth factor, lysophosphatidic acid or serum was greatly impaired. The dominant inhibitory biological activity of the N terminus correlated with its ability to impair EGF-dependent activation of GTP-Ras and of MAP kinase, as well with the ability of endogenous Sos to form a stable complex with activated EGF receptors. The N terminus with mutations in the Dbl and PH domains was much less inhibitory in these biological and biochemical assays. In contrast to wild-type Sos1, nonmyristoylated versions of Sos1-Delta N and Sos1-Delta C did not form a stable complex with activated EGF receptors. We conclude that the Dbl and PH domains are critical for Sos function and that stable association of Sos with activated EGF receptors requires both the Sos N and C termini.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Division of Basic Sciences, Building 36, Room 1D-32, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 496-9513. Fax: (301) 480-5322. E-mail: drl{at}helix.nih.gov.




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