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* Department of Molecular Oncology, We have investigated proteins which interact
with the PEST-type protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTP
hematopoietic stem cell fraction (HSCF), using the
yeast two-hybrid system. This resulted in the identification of proline, serine, threonine phosphatase interacting protein (PSTPIP), a novel member of the actin-
associated protein family that is homologous to
Schizosaccharomyces pombe CDC15p, a phosphorylated protein involved with the assembly of the actin
ring in the cytokinetic cleavage furrow. The binding of
PTP HSCF to PSTPIP was induced by a novel interaction between the putative coiled-coil region of PSTPIP
and the COOH-terminal, proline-rich region of the
phosphatase. PSTPIP is tyrosine phosphorylated both
endogenously and in v-Src transfected COS cells, and
cotransfection of dominant-negative PTP HSCF results
in hyperphosphorylation of PSTPIP. This dominant-negative effect is dependent upon the inclusion of the
COOH-terminal, proline-rich PSTPIP-binding region of the phosphatase. Confocal microscopy analysis of
endogenous PSTPIP revealed colocalization with the
cortical actin cytoskeleton, lamellipodia, and actin-rich
cytokinetic cleavage furrow. Overexpression of PSTPIP
in 3T3 cells resulted in the formation of extended
filopodia, consistent with a role for this protein in actin
reorganization. Finally, overexpression of mammalian
PSTPIP in exponentially growing S. pombe results in a
dominant-negative inhibition of cytokinesis. PSTPIP is
therefore a novel actin-associated protein, potentially involved with cytokinesis, whose tyrosine phosphorylation is regulated by PTP HSCF.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and § Department of Molecular Biology,
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080; and ¶ Cell Cycle Control Laboratory, Institut Suisse Recherches
Expérimentales sur le Cancer, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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