Syk-dependent Btk phosphorylation requires the interaction of BLNK and
Btk-SH2 domain. cDNAs of Btk [Btk(K−) or Btk(K−/SH2−)] were
cotransfected into 293T cells with the indicated combinations of Syk
and/or BLNK. (A) Assessments of the coprecipitation of
Btk and BLNK were performed by tagging BLNK with Flag sequence as
described in our previous report (12). Flag-tagged BLNK was
immunoprecipitated from cell lysates with anti-Flag mAb M2. Immune
complexes were immunoblotted with anti-Btk mAb 43-3B for detecting the
coprecipitation of Btk (Top), followed by reprobing with
anti-BLNK Ab (Second Panel). The Syk-dependent
tyrosinephosphorylation of BLNK was detected by immunoblotting with
anti-pTyr mAb 4G10 (Third Panel). Equal expression
levels of Btk, Syk, and BLNK in each experiment were confirmed by
immunoblotting the whole cell lysates with anti-Btk mAb 43-3B
(Bottom), anti-Syk Ab and anti-BLNK Ab (not shown).
(B) Btk was immunoprecipitated from cell lysates with
anti-Btk mAb 48-2H, and the tyrosinephosphorylation was evaluated by
anti-pTyr mAb 4G10 (Top). The filter was reprobed with
anti-Btk mAb 43-3B to confirm the equal amount of precipitated Btk
(Second Panel). The whole cell lysates were
immunoblotted with the anti-Syk Ab (Third Panel) or the
anti-BLNK Ab (Bottom).