Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol., Volume 23, Number 4, October, 2000 566-571

The Tyrosine Kinases p53/56lyn and p72syk Are Differentially Expressed at the Protein Level but Not at the Messenger RNA Level in Nonreleasing Human Basophils

Sandra E. Lavens-Phillips and Donald W. MacGlashan Jr.

Johns Hopkins University, Asthma & Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Within the general population, individuals can be found whose basophils do not secrete after stimulation through the immunoglobulin (Ig) E receptor. In this study we compared two groups of donors, those whose basophils responded with 65 ± 16% histamine release to an optimal concentration of anti-IgE antibody and those whose basophil response was not statistically different from nonstimulated release (1 ± 1%). We show that these so-called nonreleasing basophils have at least 10-fold lower expression of the tyrosine kinases, lyn and syk, but normal expression of the tyrosine kinase Btk when compared with the panel of releasing basophils. Indeed, maximum histamine release correlated with expression of both syk (Spearman rank correlation coefficient [Rs] = 0.98) and lyn (Rs = 0.93). In contrast, equivalent levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) for lyn and syk kinase were found for both groups. By sequencing a critical region in the syk mRNA, our results also demonstrate that the frame shift mutation in syk leading to a premature stop codon which has been observed in other cell types is not present in nonreleasing human basophils. Our results suggest that there may be translational or post-translational regulatory mechanisms specific to the expression of two important FcRI-associated signaling elements in basophils.

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