Corfas_1993_Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A_90_1624

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Title : ARIA, a protein that stimulates acetylcholine receptor synthesis, also induces tyrosine phosphorylation of a 185-kDa muscle transmembrane protein - Corfas_1993_Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A_90_1624
Author(s) : Corfas G , Falls DL , Fischbach GD
Ref : Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A , 90 :1624 , 1993
Abstract :

Motoneurons promote the accumulation of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) at developing neuromuscular synapses. The AChR-inducing activity protein ARIA, which is purified from chicken brain and increases the synthesis of AChRs in chicken myotubes, may play a crucial role in this process. Here we show that ARIA induces the rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of a M(r) 185,000 protein (p185) in muscle cells. Phosphorylation of p185 correlates with AChR induction at each stage of ARIA purification. Moreover, medium conditioned by spinal cord motoneurons stimulates AChR synthesis and p185 phosphorylation. Studies with membrane-impermeant reagents and 125I-labeled ARIA indicate that p185 is a transmembrane ARIA-receptor tyrosine kinase. Our data suggests that muscle AChR synthesis can be regulated through tyrosine phosphorylation.

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Corfas G, Falls DL, Fischbach GD (1993)
ARIA, a protein that stimulates acetylcholine receptor synthesis, also induces tyrosine phosphorylation of a 185-kDa muscle transmembrane protein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90 :1624

Corfas G, Falls DL, Fischbach GD (1993)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90 :1624