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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2003, p. 3103-3115, Vol. 23, No. 9
0270-7306/03/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.9.3103-3115.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul,1 Laboratory of Endocrinology, Institute for Medical Sciences, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon,2 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Keimyung University,3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu,4 Department of Life Science, Daejin University, Pochon-gun, Kyeonggido, Korea5
Received 14 August 2002/ Returned for modification 9 September 2002/ Accepted 24 January 2003
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Protein tyrosine phosphorylation is important in regulating signaling pathways through its effects on protein-protein interactions. Tyrosine kinase receptors such as epidermal growth factor (EGF) and platelet-derived growth factor receptors stimulate PLD activity in some cell types, suggesting that PLD activity is modulated by tyrosine phosphorylation (2, 13, 18). Recently, Min et al. (33) and Marcil et al. (31) reported that pervanadate induced tyrosine phosphorylation on PLD1 in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts and HL60 cells, respectively. Expression of PLD1 or PLD2 in HEK 293 cells revealed that PLD2, but not PLD1, is constitutively associated with the EGF receptor and becomes phosphorylated on tyrosine-11 upon stimulation with EGF (49). Mutation of tyrosine-11 to phenylalanine did not alter the magnitude of EGF stimulation. Thus, it was suggested that tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD2 is important for interaction with SH2-containing proteins but not for its intrinsic activity as a lipid-hydrolyzing enzyme. Not only the identity of the kinase responsible for phosphorylation of PLD but also the role of phosphorylated PLD in cellular responses needs to be clarified. Furthermore, in neutrophils stimulated by fMLP (N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine) and monosodium urate crystals, PLD1 was activated but not tyrosine phosphorylated (32). Therefore, the physiological relevance of tyrosine phosphorylation as an activation mechanism of PLD remains to be established.
PLD has been reported to be overexpressed and hyperactivated in some human cancers (40, 54, 55, 59). Consistent with these findings, PLD can facilitate mitogenesis and oncogenic transformation (17, 28, 36), and protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity occurs widely in mitogenic signaling (12). Jiang et al. (20-22) demonstrated that v-Src (pp60v-src), the viral counterpart of the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase c-Src (pp60c-src), stimulated PLD activity in fibroblasts and that small G proteins Ras and GTPase Ral were involved in PLD activation. The src oncogene encodes a membrane-localized tyrosine-specific protein kinase whose enzymatic activity is necessary to induce oncogenic transformation (7, 24, 42). Because the oncogenicity of c-Src correlates with its kinase activity, the Src oncoprotein probably induces transformation by phosphorylating critical cellular proteins that control cell proliferation. Src kinase activity and sometimes Src protein levels were found to be elevated in a wide variety of human cancers, with a frequent correlation between Src kinase activity and the degree of malignancy and/or invasiveness (3, 19). Recently, it was reported that elevated expression of PLD1 or PLD2 resulted in the transformation of rat fibroblasts overexpressing c-Src (23). However, little is known about how PLD cooperates with c-Src to transform cells.
In the present study, we demonstrate that PLD associates with c-Src. For the first time, we provide the evidence that PLD is an effector for c-Src activation as well as a physiologically relevant substrate by c-Src kinase. Therefore, we hypothesize that this intimate cross talk between PLD and c-Src contributes to cell proliferation by amplifying Src signaling pathways.
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Cell culture and transfections.
Human A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection. The establishment of mouse fibroblast cells overexpressing wild-type PLD2 was described previously (36). FaO rat hepatoma cell lines overexpressing wild-type, dominant negative mutant, and dominant active mutant of c-Src were obtained by transfection by using Lipofectamine according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfected cells were selected with G418 (400 µg/ml) for 21 days at 37°C. At that time antibiotic-resistant colonies were pooled and expanded for further analysis under selective conditions. COS-7 cells were transfected with human PLD1, PLD2, catalytically inactive mutants PLD1-K898R, PLD2-K758R, N-terminally deleted mutants of PLD2
183(184-933) and PLD2
313(314-933), Lck, Fyn, and wild-type and mutant c-Src (K295M) expression vectors by using Lipofectamine. All cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum.
Plasmid construction and preparation of GST fusion proteins.
The c-Src truncation mutants (SH3, SH2, or kinase domains) with coding regions corresponding to amino acids 88 to 137, 144 to 245, and 265 to 523, respectively, were created by PCR amplification. The forward primers used to amplify the truncation mutants of c-Src with coding region starting at amino acid 88, 144, or 265 were 5'-CCGGAATTCATGGCTCTCTACGACTACGAGTCC-3', 5'-CGGAATTCATGCAGGCTGAAGAGTGGTAC-3', and 5'-CCGGAATTCATGGAGTCGCTGCGGCTGGAGGTGAA-3', respectively. The reverse primers that were used to amplify the truncation mutants of c-Src constructs that end at amino acid 137, 245, or 523 were 5'-CCGCTCGAGCTAGACATAGTTACTGGGGATGTA-3' , 5'-CGCTCGAGTCAGCAGACGTTGGTCAGGCG-3', and 5'-CCGCTCGAGCTATGTCGAGGTGAAGTAGTCCTC-3', respectively. The PCR fragments were then subcloned in frame with the N-terminal fusion glutathione S-transferase (GST) at the EcoRI/XhoI site in the pGEX4T-1 vector (Amersham Bioscience Biotech). All the constructs were sequenced to verify the coding regions of c-Src. The full-length PLD2 and its two deletion mutants with coding regions corresponding to amino acids 184 to 933 or 314 to 933 were created by PCR. A cDNA fragment encoding PLD2
183(184-933) was amplified from pcDNA3.1-PLD2 by PCR using sense (5'-GAATTCATGACAGAGTTCCTGGAAGTCAGTGC-3') and antisense (5'-GCGGCCGCTATGTCCACACTTCTAGGGGGATC-3') oligonucleotides. It was then digested with EcoRI and NotI and ligated together with the EcoRI/NotI fragment encoding PLD2
183(184-933) into pCMV-Flag5b (Stratagene) vector. A cDNA fragment encoding hPLD2
313(314-933) was amplified from pcDNA3.1-PLD2 by PCR using sense (5'-GAATTCATGGGCAGAGACTTCCTACAGCTGCAC-3') and antisense (5'-CTCGAGTGTCCACACTTCTAGGGGGATC-3') oligonucleotides. The PCR fragments were digested by EcoRI and XhoI and ligated together with the same digestion fragment into pCMV-Flag5b expression vector. Each deletion construct was confirmed by DNA sequencing.
PLD activity assay. PLD activity was assessed by measuring the formation of [3H]PtdBut, the product of PLD-mediated transphosphatidylation, in the presence of 1-butanol. After 20 h of transfection with Lipofectamine, COS-7 cells in six-well plates were serum starved in the presence of 1 µCi of [3H]myristic acid/ml. After overnight starvation, the cells were washed three times with 5 ml of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and preequilibrated in serum-free DMEM for 1 h. For the final 10 min of preincubation, 0.3% butan-1-ol was included. At the end of the preincubation, cells were treated with agonists for the indicated times. The extraction and characterization of lipids by thin-layer chromatography were performed as previously described (34).
Immunoprecipitation. Cells or tissues were washed twice with ice-cold PBS and then lysed in the extraction buffer (20 mM HEPES [pH 7.2], 1% Triton X-100, 1% sodium deoxycholate, 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate [SDS], 200 mM NaCl, 1 mM Na3VO4, 1 mM NaF, 10% glycerol, 10 µg of leupeptin/ml, 10 µg of aprotinin/ml, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride). The resulting cell lysates were spun at 15,000 x g in an Eppendorf microcentrifuge for 10 min at 4°C to pellet the unbroken cells. The supernatant was then precleared for 30 min with preimmune IgG and protein A Sepharose at 4°C with rocking. Protein concentrations were determined by using the Bradford method with bovine serum albumin as a standard (4). Equal protein aliquots of precleared cell lysates (1 mg) were incubated with the indicated antibodies and 40 µl of a 1:1 slurry of protein A-Sepharose beads for 4 h at 4°C. The immune complexes were collected by centrifugation, washed five times with a buffer (20 mM Tris [pH 7.5], 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM EGTA, 150 mM NaCl, 2 mM Na3VO4, 10% glycerol, and 1% Nonidet P-40), and resuspended in sample buffer. Immune complexes were boiled in SDS sample buffer.
Western blotting. Protein samples were analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) on 8% gels and were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. The blots were then blocked with 5% nonfat milk and incubated with the appropriate primary antibodies followed by incubation with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody. Immunoreactive bands were detected by enhanced chemiluminescence.
In vitro binding assay.
Wild-type human PLD2, N-terminal 184-amino-acid-deleted mutant PLD2
183(184-933), and the N-terminal 313-amino-acid-deleted mutant PLD2
313(314-933) were transfected in COS-7 cells as described previously (1). Transfected cells were lysed in lysis buffer. After centrifugation, aliquots of the soluble extract were coimmunoprecipitated and subjected to immunoblot analysis by using an antibody against PLD or c-Src as described above. After cotransfecting COS-7 cells with PLD2 and c-Src, a GST pull-down assay was performed by using GST fusion proteins attached to glutathione-Sepharose beads. Clarified lysates (1 mg) were incubated with 2 µg of GST fusion proteins immobilized on glutathione-Sepharose beads in a final volume of 500 µl of the extraction buffer for 1 h at 4°C. Protein complexes were collected by centrifugation and washed four times with washing buffer (1% Triton X-100, 150 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 20 mM NaF, 200 µM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 10 µg of leupeptin/ml, 10 µg of aprotinin/ml). Associated protein complexes were resolved by SDS-PAGE and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane, followed by immunoblot analysis with anti-PLD antibody.
Generation of mouse monoclonal antibody specific for PLD2. The fragment of PLD2 (724 to 825 amino acids) was fused to GST. For the production of monoclonal antibody, a female BALB/c mouse (7 to 8 weeks old) was immunized with 50 µg of the purified GST fusion protein in complete Freund's adjuvant. At intervals of 2 weeks, three booster injections were given. Three days before cell fusion, the mouse was further boosted by an injection of 50 µg of the protein in PBS. The spleen cells from the immunized mouse were fused with SP2 myeloma cells. Standard fusion, screening, and cloning procedures were followed. Culture supernatants were screened for the immunoblotting. The cells from the positive wells were cloned twice to ensure monoclonality.
Cell viability assays. The trypan blue exclusion method was used to quantify cell proliferation. After transfection, cells were harvested by trypsin and washed in PBS. Trypan blue (Sigma) was added to suspended cells at a concentration of 0.4% (wt/vol). Live cell numbers were determined by counting with a hemocytometer.
Measurement of c-Src activation. To detect activated c-Src, clarified whole-cell lysates of transfected cells were resolved by SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. Tyr416-phosphorylated c-Src was detected by using a 1:1,000 dilution of anti-phospho Tyr416 c-Src antibody, with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG as secondary antibody. Identical samples were immunoblotted with c-Src antibody as controls. Immune complexes on nitrocellulose were visualized by enzyme-linked chemiluminescence.
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FIG. 1. PLD2 and, to a lesser extent, PLD1 are tyrosine phosphorylated by c-Src tyrosine kinase. (A) COS-7 cells were transiently cotransfected for 40 h with various combinations of plasmids encoding PLD1, PLD2, c-Src, Lck, and Fyn. Cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-P-Tyr antibody, and precipitated proteins were subjected to immunoblot analysis with an anti-PLD antibody. Western blot analysis using PLDs and c-Src family tyrosine kinase demonstrated that the respective proteins were expressed to equal extents. (B) COS-7 cells were transiently transfected with the indicated expression plasmids, and cell lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation with anti-P-Tyr antibody or anti-PLD antibodies. Immunoprecipitates were separated by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with anti-PLD or anti-P-Tyr antibody. Expression of PLD and c-Src was determined by using anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibodies. (C) COS-7 cells were transiently transfected with various combinations of plasmids encoding PLD1, PLD2, wild-type (WT) c-Src, and dominant negative (DN) c-Src. Cell lysates were immunoprecipitated by using anti-P-Tyr antibody or anti-PLD antibody, and immune complexes were analyzed by immunoblotting. Immunoreactive proteins were visualized by use of horseradish peroxidase-coupled secondary antibody and chemiluminescence. Data are representative of three experiments.
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The c-Src mutant K295M is kinase inactive due to disrupted phosphotransfer activity (9). Cotransfection of the kinase-inactive mutant c-Src with PLDs did not lead to tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD1 and PLD2, whereas wild-type c-Src did (Fig. 1C). These results indicate that both PLD1 and PLD2 are tyrosine phosphorylated by the expression of c-Src tyrosine kinase and that PLD2 is its preferred substrate.
PLD1 and PLD2 bind to wild-type c-Src but not to the kinase-inactive c-Src mutant. Next, we examined whether tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD occurs through its direct interaction with c-Src having kinase activity. Cells were cotransfected with PLD1 or PLD2 plus wild-type or mutant c-Src. Coimmunoprecipitation assays indicated that both PLD1 and PLD2 associated with wild-type c-Src, but not with the kinase-inactive mutant (Fig. 2). PLD2, which was more strongly tyrosine phosphorylated by c-Src than PLD1, revealed a stronger interaction with c-Src. These results demonstrate that the extent of phosphorylation in PLD isozymes by c-Src kinase is closely correlated with the binding affinity between PLD isozymes and c-Src protein.
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FIG. 2. PLD isozymes, most notably PLD2, bind to wild-type c-Src but not to the kinase-inactive c-Src mutant. COS-7 cells were transiently transfected for 40 h with various combinations of plasmids encoding PLD1, PLD2, wild-type (WT) c-Src, and dominant negative (DN) c-Src. Cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibodies, and immune complexes were subjected to immunoblotting analysis using anti-c-Src or anti-PLD antibodies, respectively. Expressions of PLDs and c-Src were determined by immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting. Data are representative of three experiments.
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FIG. 3. EGF induces tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD2 and its association with c-Src in A431 cells. (A) Mouse monoclonal antibody specific for PLD2 was generated as described in Materials and Methods. To analyze its specificity, PLD1 or PLD2 was transfected into COS-7 cells and the lysates were immunoblotted with anti-PLD antibody which recognizes both PLD1 and PLD2 or anti-PLD2 antibody. (B) Quiescent A431 cells were pretreated with or without a selective inhibitor of Src family tyrosine kinase, PP2 (2 µM), for 30 min and stimulated with 200 ng of EGF/ml for 20 min. Cell lysates were prepared, and 1 mg of the lysates were immunoprecipitated with anti-P-Tyr antibody or anti-c-Src antibody. Immunoprecipitated proteins were separated on SDS-PAGE gel and probed with mouse monoclonal antibody specific for PLD2. The result shown is representative of three experiments.
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183(184-933) or
313(314-933) plus c-Src. Using an antibody to PLD that recognizes the C-terminal region of PLD, we found that truncation of the N-terminal 313 amino acids from PLD2 (which removes both the PX domain and the PH domain) resulted in the loss of c-Src association, while truncation of the N-terminal 183 amino acids (which removes the PX domain) did not affect its association (Fig. 4B). These data indicate that the PH domain of PLD2 is critical for the interaction with c-Src. Moreover, using a GST pull-down assay, we confirmed that the GST PH domain interacted with c-Src (Fig. 4C).
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FIG. 4. The N-terminal PH domain of PLD2 is required for interaction with c-Src. (A) Schematic representation of PLD2. The boxes indicate highly conserved sequences of PLD; their possible functions have been proposed or demonstrated in reference 52. CR, conserved region. (B) COS-7 cells were transiently cotransfected with plasmids encoding the empty vector (Vec) and c-Src, or PLD2 and c-Src, or N-terminal 183-amino-acid-truncated PLD2 183(184-933) and c-Src, or N-terminal 313-amino-acid-truncated PLD2 313(314-933) and c-Src. Cell lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation by using anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibodies, and the amount of coimmunoprecipitated c-Src or PLD was determined by immunoblotting with anti-c-Src or anti-PLD antibodies. Expression of PLD2 and c-Src was determined by using anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibodies. (C) For the GST pull-down assay, GST-PH fusion protein was used as described in reference 29. The lysates transfected with c-Src were incubated with 2 µg of GST or GST-PH fragment and immunoblotted with antibody to c-Src. The amount of the GST fusion proteins was visualized by immunoblotting with an anti-GST antibody. Data are representative of three experiments.
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FIG. 5. The catalytic domain of c-Src interacts with PLD2. (A) Schematic representation of GST-fusion protein constructs. (B) c-Src was fragmented into SH3 (88-137), SH2 (144-245), and kinase (265-523) domains. The fragments were cloned as GST fusion proteins, expressed in Escherichia coli, and purified by use of glutathione-conjugated Sepharose beads. An equal amount (2 µg) of GST or GST-Src fragment was incubated with the lysates of COS-7 cells transfected with PLD2 and c-Src. The pull-down proteins were subjected to immunoblot analysis with an antibody against PLD (upper panel). The amount of the GST fusion proteins was visualized by immunoblotting with an anti-GST antibody (lower panel). Data are representative of three experiments.
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FIG. 6. Modulation between PLD2 and c-Src significantly enhances cellular proliferation. Mouse fibroblasts overexpressing PLD isozymes were plated at a density of 5 x 104 cells in 12-well plates and transfected with empty vector (Vec), wild-type (WT) c-Src, or dominant negative (DN) c-Src mutant. After 40 h of incubation, viable cells were counted by a trypan blue exclusion method. Results show means ± standard deviations of three independent experiments.
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FIG. 7. c-Src does not affect EGF-induced PLD activation in COS-7 and FaO cells. COS-7 cells transiently transfected with various constructs (A) and FaO cells expressing constitutive active c-Src (Y529F) or dominant inactive c-Src mutant (K296R/Y528F) (B) were labeled with [3H]myristic acid for 18 h. The cells were untreated or treated with 200 ng of EGF/ml for 30 min in the presence of 0.3% 1-butanol. Radioactivity incorporated into PtdBut was measured as described in Materials and Methods. *, P < 0.05 compared to cells transfected with vector and treated with EGF. Results show means ± standard deviations of three independent experiments.
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313(314-933) failed to activate c-Src (Fig. 4B), we further examined whether PLD catalytic activity or the binding of PLD isozyme with c-Src is more critical for c-Src activation by PLD isozyme. Vector or PLD alone did not induce autophosphorylation of Tyr416 in transfected cells. Interestingly, not only wild-type PLD2 but also wild-type PLD1 significantly stimulated c-Src kinase activity compared to cells transfected with c-Src alone. In contrast, both catalytically inactive mutants of PLD1 and PLD2 reduced c-Src kinase activity (Fig. 8B). As shown in Fig. 2, PLD1 has a much lower binding affinity with c-Src than does PLD2. Furthermore, a catalytically inactive PLD2 mutant also interacted with c-Src to the same extent as wild-type PLD2 (Fig. 8C). These results demonstrate that the catalytic activity of PLD isozyme rather than its binding with c-Src is required for c-Src activation by PLD.
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FIG. 9. PLD enhances not only c-Src-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin but also c-Src-mediated ERK activation. COS-7 cells were transiently cotransfected for 40 h with various combinations of plasmids encoding an empty vector, PLD1, PLD2, c-Src, and c-Src plus either wild-type (wt) or catalytically inactive mutant (mt) PLD1 or PLD2. Cell lysates were immunoblotted with an antibody directed against tyrosine-phosphorylated paxillin (A) or an anti-phospho-ERK antibody (B). Expression of total paxillin and ERK was visualized by immunoblotting with antipaxillin antibody or anti-ERK antibody. Data are representative of three experiments. The intensity of phosphorylated paxillin or phospho-ERK immunoreactive bands quantified by densitometry of immunoblot was expressed as relative intensity of the bands. Results show means ± standard deviations of three independent experiments.
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FIG. 8. Overexpression of PLD stimulates c-Src kinase activity. (A) COS-7 cells were transiently cotransfected with various combinations of plasmids encoding empty vector (Vec) and c-Src, or PLD2 and c-Src, or N-terminal 183-amino-acid-truncated PLD2 183(184-933) and c-Src, or N-terminal 313-amino-acid-truncated PLD2 313(314-933) and c-Src. Cell lysates were subjected to immunoblot analysis using a phospho Tyr416 c-Src antibody. Expression of c-Src was determined by using an anti-c-Src antibody. (B) COS-7 cells were transiently transfected for 40 h with various combinations of plasmids encoding an empty vector, PLD1, PLD2, c-Src, and c-Src plus either wild-type (wt) or catalytically inactive mutant (mt) PLD1 or PLD2. Data are representative of three experiments. (C) COS-7 cells were transiently cotransfected with a catalytically inactive PLD2 mutant and wild-type c-Src, and cell lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation with anti-c-Src antibody or anti-PLD antibodies. Immunoprecipitates were separated by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibody. Expression of PLD and c-Src was determined by using anti-PLD or anti-c-Src antibodies. Data are representative of three experiments.
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Several studies indicate that PTKs participate in the PLD activation via an unidentified mechanism (38). However, the biological significance of phosphorylation as one of the activation mechanisms of PLD still remains to be determined, since PLD activity has not been correlated with its phosphorylation level in many studies (18, 32). In addition, the nature of the tyrosine kinase has not yet been defined. Recent studies demonstrated that PLD1 and PLD2 were phosphorylated in cell-free preparations by p38MAP kinase (39) but such phosphorylation did not enhance PLD activity. It was suggested that an ERK-dependent tyrosine kinase might mediate the effect of norepinephrine on tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD2 (41). Although PLD is phosphorylated on serine and threonine residues in intact cells in response to phorbol myristate acetate (25) or on tyrosine residues by pervanadate (31, 33), it is still unclear whether this phosphorylation of PLD is of physiological relevance to enhanced hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine or other phospholipid substrates.
Although Src tyrosine kinase has been shown to play a role in PLD-mediated signaling (23, 43), the link between c-Src and PLD was not clear. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that Src family protein kinases induced tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD isozymes, most notably PLD2, by transient transfection. Moreover, EGF induced tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD2 in A431 cells. However, EGF-induced PLD activity was not altered by coexpression of c-Src in COS-7 cells. In addition, EGF-induced PLD activity in hepatoma cells overexpressing constitutive active mutant c-Src was not different from the activity shown in cells transfected with empty vector or dominant inactive c-Src. These results suggest that tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD by c-Src does not increase PLD phospholipase activity. This correlates with a previous report that overexpression of active c-Src or kinase-negative mutant c-Src did not affect PLD activity in rat mesangial cells (44) but is in contrast to observations with fibroblasts transformed by the viral counterpart and oncogenic PTK v-Src (20). A comparison of the effects of pp60c-src and pp60v-src would suggest that only the oncogenic tyrosine kinase is able to interfere with the Ras pathway. The significance of PLD activation by v-src tyrosine kinase is unknown. Moreover, the molecular basis by which PLD activity is differentially regulated by v-Src and c-Src remains to be clarified. In some pathways, the enzymatic activity of PLD as a lipid hydrolytic enzyme might not be strictly required for PLD function, pointing to the multifaceted nature of the PLD protein. Consistent with this hypothesis, it was reported that the mitogenic activity of phospholipase C-
1, which is known to play an important role in cell proliferation, does not exclusively result from the enzymatic activity of the lipase and that another activity inherent to the phospholipase C-
1 molecule can also induce DNA synthesis in quiescent cells (50). Although it is possible that nonphospholipase activities of PLD through tyrosine phosphorylation play a role in PLD-mediated cellular signaling, at present it is still not clear how tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD contributes to PLD-mediated signal transduction in cells. Tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD may not be critical for proliferation because PLD1 and PLD2 show enhancement in a similar potency proliferation by coexpression of c-Src synergistically, even though the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD1 is very different from that of PLD2. We cannot exclude the possibility that tyrosine-phosphorylated residues in PLD2 by c-Src may provide the docking sites to recruit the proteins with the SH2 domain, leading to amplification of Src signaling cascades. The biological significance of PLD tyrosine phosphorylation remains to be determined in detail.
PLD associated with c-Src, and it was the catalytic domain, not the SH3 and SH2 domains, of c-Src that was required for binding to PLD2. This is reminiscent of the interaction of G
s and G
i with the catalytic domain of c-Src (30). c-Src binds to a region of PLD2 containing PH, which is known to be involved in protein-protein interactions as well as binding of phospholipids (56). Highly tyrosine-phosphorylated PLD2 was strongly associated with c-Src in cotransfection experiments. This was comparable to EGF-induced association of phosphorylated PLD2 with c-Src in A431 cells.
To understand PLD signaling and its biological functions, it is essential to identify the direct targets of PLD. The effectors of PLD might be proteins interacting with it or the signaling molecules that are activated by PA. Therefore, we investigated the possibility that PLD has a role not only as a substrate of c-Src but also as a regulator of c-Src. Coexpression of wild-type PLD1 or PLD2, but not catalytically inactive PLD mutants, along with c-Src, stimulated c-Src kinase activity. There seems to be little difference between PLD1 and PLD2 in c-Src activation, even though the extent of their interaction with c-Src is very different. Although catalytically inactive PLD mutant associated with c-Src, overexpression of the PLD mutant rather decreased c-Src activation. Therefore, c-Src activation via PLD appeared to be dependent upon the catalytic activity of PLD rather than interaction of PLD with c-Src. The present work identifies PLD as a regulator of Src family tyrosine kinases and provides substantial new insights for future investigations in the two fields of PLD function and Src regulators.
Until now, PLDs have not been studied for their ability to increase c-Src kinase activity. In the present study, we demonstrate for the first time that there is an intimate cross-regulation between PLD and c-Src. Critical downstream targets of the Src kinase remain controversial and probably depend on the particular signaling pathway that activated the kinase. Many proposed substrates of c-Src are derived from studies of proteins phosphorylated by the activated viral Src protein, such as phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase, Shc, phospholipase C-
, paxillin, vinculin, and ERK (5, 29, 48). In the present study, we demonstrated that PLD-induced activation of c-Src increased tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin and activation of ERK, downstream target molecules of Src. Activation of these molecules was also dependent on the catalytic activity of PLD. Our observations are consistent with the recent report demonstrating that EGF-induced ERK activation is dependent upon PLD activity in A431 cells (46). This may occur by stimulation of c-Src signaling via PLD activity-dependent mechanism. Therefore, our results suggested that PA generated by PLD activity might be involved in the c-Src/ERK pathway. A number of studies have demonstrated that PA induces tyrosine phosphorylation in neutrophils and other cell types (45, 47). While it is tempting to speculate that PA-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation may be involved in activation of c-Src and stimulation of the ERK, additional experiments are required to prove this hypothesis.
Both PLD and c-Src are overexpressed and highly activated in a wide variety of human cancers (19, 40, 54, 55, 59). A connection between activation of Src via PLD and cancer progression would be a significant finding. Consistent with such a connection, Joseph et al. (23) reported that elevated expression of either PLD1 or PLD2 transformed cells overexpressing c-Src. Therefore, it is reasonable to propose that these two proteins have coordinated functions.
The present studies significantly advance our understanding of the cross talk between PLDs and c-Src tyrosine kinases. In summary, our novel findings show that there is an interaction between Src and PLD protein leading to tyrosine phosphorylation of both PLD1 and PLD2 and that this interaction and PLD activity activate c-Src, leading to autophosphorylation, paxillin phosphorylation, and ERK activation. PLD is tyrosine phosphorylated as a novel substrate of c-Src and stimulates Src kinase signaling in a PLD activity-dependent mechanism, inducing cell proliferation (Fig. 10). These characteristics suggest that PLD lies at an interesting nexus of Src-dependent signaling. Further studies aimed at the elucidation of cell growth signal
c-Src
signaling event of PLD phosphorylation and PLD-stimulated c-Src downstream signaling events leading to the gene expression are necessary to gain a better understanding of the functional role of PLD in mediating signals from c-Src tyrosine kinase.
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FIG. 10. Proposed model of PLD-stimulated c-Src downstream signaling. EGF binds to its receptor, thereby stimulating both PLD and c-Src activation. It is likely that the resulting PLD activity is involved in the stimulation of Src-mediated signaling pathways such as ERK and then in the stimulation of cell proliferation. EGF induces tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD2 via c-Src and its interaction with c-Src. At present, it is not clear, however, how tyrosine phosphorylation of PLD is involved in PLD-mediated signaling mechanism.
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This work was supported by a Korea Research Foundation grant (KRF-2002-070-C00074).
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