This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Gastric ezrin is a 80kDa protein, which is highly enriched in apical microvilli of gastric parietal cells and with sequence homology to talin and erythrocyte band 4.1. Ezrin has been suggested to play a key role in mediating the apical surface rearrangements involved in acid secretion by parietal cells. The mediation of stimulation of acid secretion by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A pathway has been correlated with the phosphorylation of ezrin. These studies suggest that phosphorylation is at serine/threonine residues and not at tyrosine residues. On the other hand, ezrin in A431 cells which overexpress EGF receptors were characterized as a substrate for an EGF-stimulated tyrosine kinase and were phosphorylated at both serine and tyrosine residues (Brestcher et al., 1989). EGF inhibits acid secretion in parietal cells and it has been suggested that EGF-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of ezrin might itself inhibit stimulation. In this project we propose to examine the site-directed phosphorylation of ezrin by histamine and EGF which stimulate and inhibit acid secretion respectively and identify the in vivo phosphorylation sites in each case. Upon treatment of gastric glands with different stimuli, ezrin will be purified by immunoprecipitation. Ezrin carrying different amount of phosphate will be separated by IEF and in-gel digested. The ezrin peptides will be analyzed by MALDI mass spectrometry, post-source decay analysis and LC MS/MS to identify the phosphorylation site at different circumstances.
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