1997•Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen access

BAP-135, a target for Bruton’s tyrosine kinase in response to B cell receptor engagement

Weiyi Yang, Stephen Desiderio

Abstract

Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) is essential for B cell activation, but downstream targets of Btk have not been defined. We now describe a protein, BAP-135, that is associated with Btk in B cells and is a substrate for phosphorylation by Btk. BAP-135, which exhibits no detectable homology to known proteins, contains six occurrences of a hitherto undescribed amino acid repeat and two motifs, similar to the Src autophosphorylation site, that represent potential targets for tyrosine phosphorylation. The pleckstrin homology domain of Btk comprises the principal site of BAP-135 binding. Btk-dependent phosphorylation of BAP-135 is abolished by mutations that impair activation of Btk by Src-related kinases. Btk and BAP-135 exist in a complex before B cell antigen receptor (BCR) engagement; in response to BCR crosslinking, BAP-135 is transiently phosphorylated on tyrosine. Taken together, these observations suggest that BAP-135 may reside downstream of Btk in a signaling pathway originating at the BCR.

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Key concepts: Bruton's tyrosine kinase, Autophosphorylation, Pleckstrin homology domain, Proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase Src, Phosphorylation, Tyrosine kinase, breakpoint cluster region, Tyrosine