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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2000, p. 7735-7750, Vol. 20, No. 20
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Inhibition of ErbB-2 Mitogenic and Transforming
Activity by RALT, a Mitogen-Induced Signal Transducer Which Binds
to the ErbB-2 Kinase Domain
Loredana
Fiorentino,1,
Chiara
Pertica,1
Monia
Fiorini,1
Claudio
Talora,1,§
Marco
Crescenzi,2,
Loriana
Castellani,3
Stefano
Alemà,4
Piero
Benedetti,5 and
Oreste
Segatto1,*
Laboratories of
Immunology1 and Molecular
Oncogenesis,2 Regina Elena Cancer Institute,
00158 Rome, Department of Neuroscience and INFM, University of
Rome Tor Vergata, Rome,3 Institute of
Cell Biology, CNR, 00137 Rome,4 and CNR,
Campus Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, 00016 Monterotondo
Scalo,5 Italy
Received 29 March 2000/Returned for modification 19 May
2000/Accepted 24 July 2000
The product of rat gene 33 was identified as an
ErbB-2-interacting protein in a two-hybrid screen employing the ErbB-2
juxtamembrane and kinase domains as bait. This interaction was
reproduced in vitro with a glutathione S-transferase fusion
protein spanning positions 282 to 395 of the 459-residue gene 33 protein. Activation of ErbB-2 catalytic function was required for
ErbB-2-gene 33 physical interaction in living cells, whereas ErbB-2
autophosphorylation was dispensable. Expression of gene 33 protein was
absent in growth-arrested NIH 3T3 fibroblasts but was induced within 60 to 90 min of serum stimulation or activation of the ErbB-2 kinase and
decreased sharply upon entry into S phase. New differentiation factor
stimulation of mitogen-deprived mammary epithelial cells also caused
accumulation of gene 33 protein, which could be found in a complex with
ErbB-2. Overexpression of gene 33 protein in mouse fibroblasts
inhibited (i) cell proliferation driven by ErbB-2 but not by serum,
(ii) cell transformation induced by ErbB-2 but not by Ras or Src, and (iii) sustained activation of ERK 1 and 2 by ErbB-2 but not by serum.
The gene 33 protein may convey inhibitory signals downstream to ErbB-2
by virtue of its association with SH3-containing proteins, including
GRB-2, which was found to associate with gene 33 protein in living
cells. These data indicate that the gene 33 protein is a feedback
inhibitor of ErbB-2 mitogenic function and a suppressor of ErbB-2
oncogenic activity. We propose that the gene 33 protein be renamed with
the acronym RALT (receptor-associated late transducer).
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of
Immunology, Regina Elena Cancer Institute-CRS, Via delle Messi d'Oro 156/158, 00158 Rome, Italy. Phone: 39-06-49852533. Fax: 39-06-49852505. E-mail: segatto{at}ifo.it.

Dedicated to the cherished memory of Stefania and
Raffaele.

Present address: Apoptosis and Cell Death Program, The Burnham
Institute, La Jolla, CA
92037.
§
Present address: Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusets
General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown,
MA
02129.

Present address: Laboratory of Comparative Toxicology and
Ecotoxicology, ISS, 00161 Rome,
Italy.
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