Molecular cloning of human paxillin, a focal adhesion protein phosphorylated by P210(BCR/ABL)

R. Salgia, J. L. Li, Hao Lo Su Hao Lo, B. Brunkhorst, G. S. Kansas, E. S. Sobhany, Y. Sun, E. Pisick, M. Hallek, T. Ernst, R. Tantravahi, L. B. Chen, J. D. Griffin*

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Abstract

Paxillin is a 68-kDa focal adhesion protein that is phosphorylated on tyrosine residues in fibroblasts in response to transformation by v-src, treatment with platelet-derived growth factor, or cross-linking of integrins. Paxillin has been shown to have binding sites for the SH3 domain of Src and the SH2 domain of Crk in vitro and to coprecipitate with two other focal adhesion proteins, vinculin and focal adhesion kinase (p125(fak)). After preliminary studies showed that paxillin was a substrate for the hematopoietic oncogene p210(BCR/ABL), we investigated the role of this protein in hematopoietic cell transformation and signal transduction. A full length cDNA encoding human paxillin was cloned, revealing multiple protein domains, including four tandem LIM domains, a proline-rich domain containing a consensus SH3 binding site, and three potential Crk-SH2 binding sites. The paxillin gene was localized to chromosome 12q24 by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis. A chicken paxillin cDNA was also cloned and is predicted to encode a protein approximately 90% identical to human paxil- lin. Paxillin coprecipitated with p210(BCR/ABL) and multiple other cellular proteins in myeloid cell lines, suggesting the formation of multimeric complexes. In normal hematopoietic cells and myeloid cell lines, tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin and coprecipitation with other cellular proteins was rapidly and transiently induced by interleukin-3 and several other hematopoietic growth factors. The predicted structure of paxillin implicates this molecule in protein-protein interactions involved in signal transduction from growth factor receptors and the BCR/ABL oncogene fusion protein to the cytoskeleton.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5039-5047
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Biological Chemistry
Volume270
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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