Drosophila RET contains an active tyrosine kinase and elicits neurotrophic activities in mammalian cells
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...The signaling properties and functions of Drosophila Ret are not characterized in great detail, but it is structurally homologous to mammalian Ret and can, to some extent, activate the same signaling pathways (Abrescia et al, 2005)....
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...Although the effects of Ret signaling on GIRK2 have not been studied, it is tempting to speculate that the modulation of Ras/Mapk signaling by Ret and DJ-1 also affects GIRK2 function and vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons....
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...gous to mammalian Ret [32] and exhibits activities associated with human Ret both in tissue culture cells and during Drosophila eye development [33,34]....
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...The observed frequencies are shown for the different genotypes (n.115 wings analyzed per animal). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000349.g008 PLoS Biology | www.plosbiology.org 10 April 2010 | Volume 8 | Issue 4 | e1000349 novel DJ-1B2/2 phenotype in the unchallenged fly and suggest that DJ-1B cooperates with Ras/Mapk signalling during photoreceptor neuron and wing imaginal disc development....
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...To gain insights into the mechanism(s) underlying the genetic interaction between Ret and DJ-1, we investigated the capacity of fly DJ-1A/B to genetically modify pathways that are known to mediate Ret function: PI3K/Akt and Ras/Mapk [33]....
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...PLoS Biology | www.plosbiology.org 5 April 2010 | Volume 8 | Issue 4 | e1000349 Genetic Interaction of DJ-1A/B and dRet in Drosophila Eye Development To obtain independent evidence for genetic interaction between Ret and DJ-1 and to begin characterizing the underlying intracellular pathways, we used the developing Drosophila eye system, which is very sensitive to dosage changes in RTK signaling and downstream components of the PI3K/Akt and Ras/Mapk pathways....
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...Full-length RET expression in mammalian cells was determined using C-20 and T-20 anti-RET antibodies from Santa-Cruz, CA, USA, or a monoclonal anti-RET antibody raised against a peptide derived from the RET kinase activation loop as described previously (Abrescia et al., 2005)....
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...More striking is the identification of an authentic homologue of Ret in Drosophila (dRet), containing the same conserved residues required for ligand-mediated activation and signaling in vertebrate Ret proteins (Sugaya et al., 1994; Abrescia et al., 2005)....
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...actually correspond to pseudogenes and do not encode enzimatically active kinases [14]....
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...structural motifs which unequivocally identify RET as a unique receptor tyrosine kinase in those species [9,13,14]....
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...Fbgn0011829) is an active tyrosine kinase [14], and may therefore exert functions similar to human RET (herein hRET) with regards to downstream signaling....
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...tified in the Drosophila genome [17,18,29,30], which could be taken to imply that cognate dRET ligands might be ‘‘nonneurotrophic’’ signaling factors....
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