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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 289, Issue 13, Pages 9275-9287Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.541102
Keywords
Collagen; Glycosylation; Mutagenesis Site-specific; Receptor Regulation; Receptor Tyrosine Kinase
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- National Institutes of Health [CA-61986]
- Wellcome Trust [WT089028]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I014276/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I014276/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/I014276/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Background: DDR1 is a receptor tyrosine kinase that signals in response to collagen. Results: Mutagenesis at the (NDS)-N-211 glycosylation site enhances receptor dimerization and results in ligand-independent receptor autophosphorylation. Conclusion:N-Glycosylation of DDR1 plays a critical role in maintenance of the inactive state of the receptor dimers. Significance: These studies highlight a new structural feature that regulates DDR1 activation. Discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1) belongs to a unique family of receptor tyrosine kinases that signal in response to collagens. DDR1 undergoes autophosphorylation in response to collagen binding with a slow and sustained kinetics that is unique among members of the receptor tyrosine kinase family. DDR1 dimerization precedes receptor activation suggesting a structural inhibitory mechanism to prevent unwarranted phosphorylation. However, the mechanism(s) that maintains the autoinhibitory state of the DDR1 dimers is unknown. Here, we report that N-glycosylation at the Asn(211) residue plays a unique role in the control of DDR1 dimerization and autophosphorylation. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we found that mutations that disrupt the conserved (NDS)-N-211 N-glycosylation motif, but not other N-glycosylation sites (Asn(260), Asn(371), and Asn(394)), result in collagen I-independent constitutive phosphorylation. Mass spectrometry revealed that the N211Q mutant undergoes phosphorylation at Tyr(484), Tyr(520), Tyr(792), and Tyr(797). The N211Q traffics to the cell surface, and its ectodomain displays collagen I binding with an affinity similar to that of the wild-type DDR1 ectodomain. However, unlike the wild-type receptor, the N211Q mutant exhibits enhanced receptor dimerization and sustained activation upon ligand withdrawal. Taken together, these data suggest that N-glycosylation at the highly conserved (NDS)-N-211 motif evolved to act as a negative repressor of DDR1 phosphorylation in the absence of ligand. The presence of glycan moieties at that site may help to lock the collagen-binding domain in the inactive state and prevent unwarranted signaling by receptor dimers. These studies provide a novel insight into the structural mechanisms that regulate DDR activation.
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