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. 2009 Jul;94(7):2571-8.
doi: 10.1210/jc.2008-1980. Epub 2009 Apr 14.

The tyrosine kinase receptor RET interacts in vivo with aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein to alter survivin availability

Manuela Vargiolu  1 , Daniela Fusco, Ivana Kurelac, Dietmar Dirnberger, Ralf Baumeister, Isabella Morra, Antonio Melcarne, Roberto Rimondini, Giovanni Romeo, Elena Bonora
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The tyrosine kinase receptor RET interacts in vivo with aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein to alter survivin availability

Manuela Vargiolu et al. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

Context: RET is a tyrosine kinase transmembrane receptor expressed in two main alternative isoforms: RET9 and RET51. RET transduces a positive signal leading to survival, differentiation, or migration in the presence of its ligand glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, whereas in its absence a proapoptotic fragment that initiates a negative signaling for apoptosis is generated. The signal transduction mechanisms leading to apoptosis are still unclear.

Objective: To shed light on the mechanisms of RET-induced apoptosis, we searched for novel interactors of RET51.

Design: The "split ubiquitin yeast two-hybrid system" was used with RET51 as bait against a human brain expression library.

Results: We identified aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein (AIP), a cochaperone recently found mutated in pituitary adenoma patients, as a novel interactor of RET. We showed that RET interacts specifically with AIP both in mammalian cell lines and in vivo in the pituitary gland, regardless of the presence of pituitary adenoma-specific mutations. AIP and RET genes were sequenced in 28 pituitary adenoma, but no relevant mutations were found. In addition, we identified the proapoptotic domain of RET as responsible for the interaction with AIP. Finally, we demonstrated that the AIP-RET interaction does not require RET kinase activity or kinase-dependent signal transduction and that it prevents the formation of the AIP-survivin complex.

Conclusions: The identification of the AIP-RET complex represents a starting point to study key cellular processes involved in RET-induced apoptosis.

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