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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007/1997/5/1877/ $5.00
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 185, Number 10, May 19, 1997 1877-1882

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The Vav Binding Site (Y315) in ZAP-70 Is Critical for Antigen Receptor–mediated Signal Transduction

Jun Wu*, Qihong Zhao§, Tomohiro Kurosaki||, and Arthur Weiss*,{ddagger},§

From the * Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the {ddagger} Department of Medicine and the § Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, and || Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Hepatic Research, Kansai Medical School, Moriguchi 570, Japan

Stimulation of antigen receptors in T and B cells leads to the activation of the Src and Syk families of protein tyrosine kinases (PTK). These PTKs subsequently phosphorylate numerous intracellular substrates, including the 95-kD protooncogene product Vav. Vav is essential for both T and B cell development and T and B cell antigen receptor–mediated signal transduction. After receptor ligation, Vav associates with phosphorylated Syk and ZAP-70 PTKs, an interaction that depends upon its SH2 domain. Here we demonstrate that a point mutation of tyrosine 315 (Y315F) in ZAP-70, a putative Vav SH2 domain binding site, eliminated the Vav– ZAP-70 interaction. Moreover, the Y315 mutation impaired the function of ZAP-70 in antigen receptor signaling. Surprisingly, this mutation also resulted in marked reduction in the tyrosine phosphorylation of ZAP-70, Vav, SLP-76, and Shc. These data demonstrate that the Vav binding site in ZAP-70 plays a critical role in antigen receptor–mediated signal transduction.

Address correspondence to Dr. Arthur Weiss, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, 3rd and Parnassus Avenues, Box 0724, San Francisco, CA 94143.

Q. Zhao is an associate of and A.W. is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Cancer Institutes (RO1 CA72531).

J. Wu and Q. Zhao contributed equally to this work.


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