Sos-mediated activation of rac1 by p66shc

Firdous A. Khanday, Lakshmi Santhanam, Kenji Kasuno, Tohru Yamamori, Asma Naqvi, Jeremy DeRicco, Artem Bugayenko, Ilwola Mattagajasingh, Andrea Disanza, Giorgio Scita, Kaikobad Irani

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Abstract

The Son of Sevenless 1 protein (sos1) is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for either the ras or rac1 GTPase. We show that p66shc, an adaptor protein that promotes oxidative stress, increases the rac1-specific GEF activity of sos1, resulting in rac1 activation. P66shc decreases sos1 bound to the growth factor receptor bound protein (grb2) and increases the formation of the sos1-eps8-e3b1 tricomplex. The NH2-terminal proline-rich collagen homology 2 (CH2) domain of p66shc associates with full-length grb2 in vitro via the COOH-terminal src homology 3 (C-SH3) domain of grb2. A proline-rich motif (PPLP) in the CH2 domain mediates this association. The CH2 domain competes with the proline-rich COOH-terminal region of sos1 for the C-SH3 domain of grb2. P66shc-induced dissociation of sos1 from grb2, formation of the sos1-eps8-e3b1 complex, rac1-specic GEF activity of sos1, rac1 activation, and oxidative stress are also mediated by the PPLP motif in the CH2 domain. This relationship between p66shc, grb2, and sos1 provides a novel mechanism for the activation of rac1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)817-822
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Cell Biology
Volume172
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 13 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cell Biology

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