First published online May 13, 2005; 10.1105/tpc.105.031393
The Plant Cell 17:1685-1703 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists
Identification and Functional Analysis of in Vivo Phosphorylation Sites of the Arabidopsis BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE1 Receptor Kinase
Xiaofeng Wanga,
Michael B. Gosheb,
Erik J. Soderblomb,
Brett S. Phinneyc,
Jason A. Kucharc,
Jia Lid,
Tadao Asamie,
Shigeo Yoshidae,
Steven C. Huberf and
Steven D. Clousea,1
a Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7609
b Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7622
c Proteomics Facility, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
d Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-0245
e RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
f U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3838
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail steve_clouse{at}ncsu.edu; fax 919-515-2505.
Brassinosteroids (BRs) regulate multiple aspects of plant growth and development and require an active BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) and BRI1-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE1 (BAK1) for hormone perception and signal transduction. Many animal receptor kinases exhibit ligand-dependent oligomerization followed by autophosphorylation and activation of the intracellular kinase domain. To determine if early events in BR signaling share this mechanism, we used coimmunoprecipitation of epitope-tagged proteins to show that in vivo association of BRI1 and BAK1 was affected by endogenous and exogenous BR levels and that phosphorylation of both BRI1 and BAK1 on Thr residues was BR dependent. Immunoprecipitation of epitope-tagged BRI1 from Arabidopsis thaliana followed by liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) identified S-838, S-858, T-872, and T-880 in the juxtamembrane region, T-982 in the kinase domain, and S-1168 in C-terminal region as in vivo phosphorylation sites of BRI1. MS analysis also strongly suggested that an additional two residues in the juxtamembrane region and three sites in the activation loop of kinase subdomain VII/VIII were phosphorylated in vivo. We also identified four specific BAK1 autophosphorylation sites in vitro using LC/MS/MS. Site-directed mutagenesis of identified and predicted BRI1 phosphorylation sites revealed that the highly conserved activation loop residue T-1049 and either S-1044 or T-1045 were essential for kinase function in vitro and normal BRI1 signaling in planta. Mutations in the juxtamembrane or C-terminal regions had only small observable effects on autophosphorylation and in planta signaling but dramatically affected phosphorylation of a peptide substrate in vitro. These findings are consistent with many aspects of the animal receptor kinase model in which ligand-dependent autophosphorylation of the activation loop generates a functional kinase, whereas phosphorylation of noncatalytic intracellular domains is required for recognition and/or phosphorylation of downstream substrates.
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