First Author | Brückner K | Year | 1999 |
Journal | Neuron | Volume | 22 |
Issue | 3 | Pages | 511-24 |
PubMed ID | 10197531 | Mgi Jnum | J:54097 |
Mgi Id | MGI:1334095 | Doi | 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80706-0 |
Citation | Bruckner K, et al. (1999) EphrinB ligands recruit GRIP family PDZ adaptor proteins into raft membrane microdomains. Neuron 22(3):511-24 |
abstractText | Transmembrane ephrinB proteins have important functions during embryonic patterning as ligands for Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and presumably as signal-transducing receptor-like molecules. Consistent with "reverse" signaling, ephrinB1 is localized in sphingo-lipid/cholesterol-enriched raft microdomains, platforms for the localized concentration and activation of signaling molecules. Glutamate receptor-interacting protein (GRIP) and a highly related protein, which we have termed GRIP2, are recruited into these rafts through association with the C-terminal PDZ target site of ephrinB1. Stimulation of ephrinB1 with soluble EphB2 receptor ectodomain causes the formation of large raft patches that also contain GRIP proteins. Moreover, a GRIP-associated serine/threonine kinase activity is recruited into ephrinB1-GRIP complexes. Our findings suggest that GRIP proteins provide a scaffold for the assembly of a multiprotein signaling complex downstream of ephrinB ligands. |