Abstract 4990: The RET receptor Y791F variant activates the kinase but diminishes ligand responsiveness
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Abstract
Abstract The RET receptor tyrosine kinase is essential for normal development of the kidneys and enteric nervous system, and is also implicated in several human pathologies. Gain-of-function mutations in RET are associated with the familial cancer syndrome multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2), where single amino acid substitutions lead to constitutive RET activation in the absence of its ligands of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family. Conversely, loss-of-function RET mutations are associated with Hirschsprung disease, a congenital abnormality of the enteric nervous system. Previous studies have identified a specific substitution variant of a phenylalanine for tyrosine at amino acid 791 in the RET kinase domain in both cancer and Hirschsprung disease patients. Thus, the functional implications of this variant and its contributions to these diverse phenotypes are not clear. Here, we have explored the role of MEN 2-associated RET mutations in RET-mediated cell invasion and migration. We showed that GDNF-stimulation promotes RET-mediated cell migration and that a GDNF-chemotactic gradient significantly increased invasion of cells expressing wild type RET or a MEN2B (M918T) mutant RET form. However, we found that a GDNF gradient did not enhance invasion of cells expressing RET-Y791F. Consistent with this, we showed that MEN 2-associated RET mutants M918T and Y791F were phosphorylated in the absence of GDNF and stimulated downstream signaling pathways. GDNF treatment further increased phosphorylation of the RET-M918T but not RET-Y791F proteins, suggesting that RET-Y791F has reduced responsiveness to GDNF ligand. Our results suggest that despite constitutive activation of RET signaling, cells expressing the Y791F variant may possess a diminished capacity to recognize and respond to GDNF in the cell microenvironment. This may be linked to a disturbance in the directional migration of cells expressing the mutant receptor thus contributing to the phenotypic variability observed. Citation Format: Andrew Fetz, Mathieu J.F. Crupi, Eric Lian, Brandy D. Hyndman, Lois M. Mulligan. The RET receptor Y791F variant activates the kinase but diminishes ligand responsiveness. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 4990. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-4990
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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