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Mol. Cell. Biol., Nov 1996, 5955-5963, Vol 16, No. 11
S Krautwald, D Buscher, V Kummer, S Buder and M Baccarini
Ubiquitously expressed SH2-containing tyrosine phosphatases interact
physically with tyrosine kinase receptors or their substrates and relay
positive mitogenic signals via the activation of the Ras-mitogen- activated
protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. Conversely, the structurally related
phosphatase SHP-1 is predominantly expressed in hemopoietic cells and
becomes tyrosine phosphorylated upon colony-stimulating factor 1 treatment
of macrophages without associating with the colony- stimulating factor 1
receptor tyrosine kinase. Mice lacking functional SHP-1 (me/me and
me(v)/me(v)) develop systemic autoimmune disease with accumulation of
macrophages, suggesting that SHP-1 may be a negative regulator of
hemopoietic cell growth. By using macrophages expressing dominant negative
Ras and the me(v)/me(v) mouse mutant, we show that SHP-1 is activated in
the course of mitogenic signal transduction in a Ras-dependent manner and
that its activity is necessary for the Ras- dependent activation of the
MAPK pathway but not of the Raf-1 kinase. Consistent with a role for SHP-1
as an intermediate between Ras and the MEK-MAPK pathway, Ras-independent
activation of the latter kinases by bacterial lipopolysaccharide occurred
normally in me(v)/me(v) cells. Our results sharply accentuate the diversity
of signal transduction in mammalian cells, in which the same signaling
intermediates can be rearranged to form different pathways.
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology
Involvement of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 in Ras-mediated activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway
Department of Immunobiology, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Molecular Biology, Hannover, Germany.
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