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receptor tyrosine kinases

directly phosphorylate tyrosines on themselves and intracellular signaling proteins

activation of RTKs

dimerization

PI 3-Kinase signalling

1. promotes cell survial


2. inhibition of apoptosis (activates apoptosis-inhibitory protein)

activation of notch

proteolytic cleavage

proteolytic cleavage

activates Notch signaling


1. critical mechanism of contact-dependent cell-cell communication


2. plays a role in: neuronal dev., angiogenesis, hematopoietic stem cells expansion, cell-fate determination in mammary glands

BMP/TGF b signalling

smad pathway

Wnt signalling

1. dorsal patterning of the neural tube


2. planar cell polarity


3. axon guidance


4. maintenance and proliferation of hematopoetic stem cells


5. establishment of cancer stem cells

hedgehog signaling

1. development of vertebrate limbs


2. insulin production


3. angiogenesis


4. proliferation of blood progenitor cells


5. separation of trachea, esophagus, gut tube


6. induction of specific ventral neural cell populations

FGF signalling

1. maintance of mesoderm and neuroectoderm


2. morphogenic movements


3. anteroposterior patterning


4. somitogenesis


5. dev. of various organs

signaling pathways we will study

1. TGFb/BMP


2. Wnt


3. Hedgehog


4. FGF

tyrosine-kinase-associated receptors

1. recruit tyrosine kinases to relay signal


2. no intrinsic enzyme activity

receptor serine/threonine kinase

1. directly phosphorylate specific serines or threonines


2. on themselves and latent gene regulatory proteins

histidine-kinase-associated-receptors

1. kinase phosphorylates itself


2. transfers phosphoryl groups to a second intracellular signaling protein

receptor guanylyl cylcases

catalyze production of cGMP in cytosol

cGMP

acts as a intracellular mediator

receptor-like tyrosine phosphatases

remove phosphate groups from tyrosines of specific intracelluar signaling proteins

dimerization

activation of RTKs


1. inactive RTKs


2. signal molecule binds to RTKs


3. cross-phosphorylation by activated kinase domains

docking of intracellular signaling proteins

1. occurs on phosphotyrosines on activated RTK


2. activated signaling proteins relay signal downstream

phosphoinositide docking sites

catalyzed by PI 3-kinase

notch-delta lateral inhibition

1. nerve cell develops from epithelial cell


2. nerve cells has Notch receptor


3. Notch binds to Delta


4. inhibits epithelial cells


5. does not become neural cell

Delta protein

1. membrane bound


2. inhibitory signal protein


3. prevents unspecified cells from specializing (into neuronal cells)

proteolytic cleavage pathway

1. cleavage at site 1 in Golgi


2. transport to plasma membrane


3. binding to Delta


4. endocytosis of Delta-Notch fragment complex


5. cleavage at site 2


6. cleavage at site 3


7. Notch tail migrates to nucleus


8. Notch tail in protein complex activates gene transcription


9. transcription of Notch target genes

TGFb superfamily

1. TGFbs, Activins, BMPs, GDFs, Nodal


2. cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, homeostasis


TGFbs

involved in bone development, hematopoesis

BMPs

involved in mesoderm and endoderm formation, cardiac/kidney/liver/GI development

Nodal

involved in primitive streak formation, mesoderm/endoderm formation

Activins

involved in ovulation, wound healing, morphogenesis of branching organs, neural development

TGFb signaling pathway

via Smad activation


1. TGFb binds


2. T2 receptor phosphorylates T1 receptor


3. phosphorylated T1 receptor recruits and phosphorylates Smad2 or Smad3


4. p-Smad2/3 dissociates from receptor


5. p-Smad2/3 oligomerizes with Smad4


6. Smad2/3-Smad4 oligomer translocates to nucleus


7. oligomer recruits other gene regulatory preins


8. oligomer activates transcription of specific target genes


9. target gene transcription

Wnt proteins

1. tetra-amelia


2. LRP


3. Frizzled


4. Axin


5. APC

Tetra-amelia

absence of limbs

LRP

1. bone density defects


2. vascular defects in eye

Frizzled

retinal angiogenesis defects

Axin

1, tooth agenesis


2. predisposition ot colorectal cancer

APC

1. polyposis coli


2. colon cancer

Wnt/B-Catenin Signaling pathway: Without Wnt

1. phosphorylated B-catenin is ubiquitylated and degraded in proteasomes


2. unstable B-catenin


3. Wnt Target genes off

Wnt/B-Catenin Signaling pathway: with Wnt

1. activated Frizzled and LRP


2. unphospyrlated B-catenin accumulates


3. B-catenin (stable) migrates to nucleus


4. displaces Groucho and assocaites with coactivator


5. transcription of Wnt target genes

Hedgehog isoforms

sonic


indian


desert

SHH concentrations

Hedgehog signalling


1. digits 1-5


2. SHH independent (pinky) - extended expression (thumb)

no hedgehog signaling: inactive smoothened

1. phosphorylation of Ci by PKA, GSK3, CK1


2. ubiquitylation and proteolytic processing of phosphorylated Ci protein in proteasomes


3. translocation of cleaved Ci protein into nucleus


4. hedgehog target off

hedgehog signaling: active smoothened

1. hedgehog signal binds to Patched and iHog


2. leads to degradation (lysosomes) of Patch


3. transport of Smoothened to plasma membrane


4. Smoothened is phosphorylated (by PKA and CK1) and recruited to (vesicle fusion) plasma membrane


5. Smoothened recruits Ci protein complex


6. inhibits Ci proteolysis


7. Ci is released from complex


8. Ci transported to nucleus


9. activate transcription


10. transcription of hedgehog target genes