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. 2015 Nov 5;26(22):4109–4123. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E14-06-1114

FIGURE 8:

FIGURE 8:

(A–C) Characterization of the E933Q ErbB3 mutant indicates that changes in off-rate or dephosphorylation do not contribute to gain of function. (A, B) Histograms of dimer lifetimes as revealed by single-particle tracking and HMM analysis of two-color QD-conjugated HA Fab (A) or HRG (B) bound to HAErbB3E933Q receptors on the surface of CHO cells. Unliganded receptor pairs have an off-rate of 0.42/s, which is comparable to the wild-type value. The lifetime of liganded HAErbB3E933Q receptor pairs is also comparable to wild-type receptor at 0.19/s. (C) Normalized ErbB3 PY1289 phosphorylation levels after 2-min stimulation followed by lapatinib treatment (10 μM) in CHO ErbB3wt vs. CHO ErbB3E933Q plotted over time. As in Figure 3, phosphorylation levels of both receptors were set to 1 for the 2-min time point after HRG stimulation. Points were fitted to a one-phase exponential decay curve to determine the dephosphorylation half-life. (D) Simulation in BioNetGen for a gain-of-function mutation applied to the activator function, as a function of ligand occupancy. Ratio of 1 ErbB2:20 ErbB3 is used here, since the data reported in Figure 7 were acquired in cells stably expressing ErbB3 in the background of low, endogenous ErbB2.