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Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 1999, p. 1498-1507, Vol. 19, No. 2
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rlk/TXK Encodes Two Forms of a Novel Cysteine String Tyrosine Kinase Activated by Src Family Kinases

Jayantha Debnath,1,2,3,dagger Mario Chamorro,1,4 Michael J. Czar,3 Edward M. Schaeffer,2,3 Michael J. Lenardo,5 Harold E. Varmus,1 and Pamela L. Schwartzberg1,3,*

National Cancer Institute,1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute---NIH Research Scholars Program,2 National Institute for Human Genome Research,3 and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,5 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and George Washington Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Washington, D.C.4

Received 20 February 1998/Returned for modification 14 April 1998/Accepted 30 October 1998

Rlk/Txk is a member of the BTK/Tec family of tyrosine kinases and is primarily expressed in T lymphocytes. Unlike other members of this kinase family, Rlk lacks a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain near the amino terminus and instead contains a distinctive cysteine string motif. We demonstrate here that Rlk protein consists of two isoforms that arise by alternative initiation of translation from the same cDNA. The shorter, internally initiated protein species lacks the cysteine string motif and is located in the nucleus when expressed in the absence of the larger form. In contrast, the larger form is cytoplasmic. We show that the larger form is palmitoylated and that mutation of its cysteine string motif both abolishes palmitoylation and allows the protein to migrate to the nucleus. The cysteine string, therefore, is a critical determinant of both fatty acid modification and protein localization for the larger isoform of Rlk, suggesting that Rlk regulation is distinct from the other Btk family kinases. We further show that Rlk is phosphorylated and changes localization in response to T-cell-receptor (TCR) activation and, like the other Btk family kinases, can be phosphorylated and activated by Src family kinases. However, unlike the other Btk family members, Rlk is activated independently of the activity of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, consistent with its lack of a PH domain. Thus, Rlk has two distinct isoforms, each of which may have unique properties in signaling downstream from the TCR.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Human Genome Research Institute, 49/4A38, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4472. Phone: (301) 435-1906. Fax: (301) 402-2170. E-mail: pams{at}nhgri.nih.gov.

dagger Present address: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 1999, p. 1498-1507, Vol. 19, No. 2
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