Abstract
Recent evidence indicates that integrin ligation results in activation of focal adhesion kinase (pp125FAK), the prototype of a new subfamily of nonreceptor protein tyrosine kinase (PTK), including FAKB and the proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 (PYK-2), also termed cell adhesion kinase-beta or related adhesion focal tyrosine kinase. We have previously shown that cross-linking of alpha 4 beta 1 and alpha 5 beta 1 fibronectin receptors on human NK cells stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of two proteins migrating at 105 and 115 kDa. Here we report that cross-linking of beta 1 integrins on human NK cells stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation and PTK activity of PYK-2. PYK-2 tyrosine phosphorylation was maximal at 1 min and started to decline 20 min after stimulation. Engagement of alpha 4 beta 1 and alpha 5 beta 1 either with specific mAbs or after cell adhesion to fibronectin or its 120- and 40-kDa fragments also triggered PYK-2 tyrosine phosphorylation. Stimulation of PYK-2 tyrosine phosphorylation was inhibited by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor herbimycin A, but not by EGTA, indicating that PYK-2 tyrosine phosphorylation is PTK, but not calcium, dependent. We also demonstrate that PYK-2 is constitutively associated with paxillin, which undergoes tyrosine phosphorylation with the same kinetics of PYK-2 upon beta 1 integrin ligation.
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