Tropomyosin receptor kinase C

Tropomyosin receptor kinase C (TrkC),[5] also known as NT-3 growth factor receptor, neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor type 3, or TrkC tyrosine kinase is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NTRK3 gene.[6]

NTRK3
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1WWC, 3V5Q, 4YMJ
Identifiers
Aliases	NTRK3, GP145-TrkC, TRKC, gp145(trkC), neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase 3
External IDs	OMIM: 191316 MGI: 97385 HomoloGene: 49183 GeneCards: NTRK3
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 15 (human)[1] Band 15q25.3 Start 87,859,751 bp[1] End 88,256,768 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 7 (mouse)[2] Band 7 D2|7 44.01 cM Start 78,175,959 bp[2] End 78,738,012 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function • nucleotide binding • protein tyrosine kinase activity • neurotrophin binding • protein kinase activity • transferase activity • transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase activity • kinase activity • neurotrophin receptor activity • GPI-linked ephrin receptor activity • ATP binding • p53 binding • GO:0001948 protein binding • receptor tyrosine kinase • transmembrane signaling receptor activity Cellular component • cytoplasm • integral component of membrane • membrane • receptor complex • integral component of plasma membrane • cell membrane • glutamatergic synapse • integral component of postsynaptic membrane • axon Biological process • circadian rhythm • positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation • ephrin receptor signaling pathway • response to ethanol • activation of protein kinase B activity • positive regulation of synapse assembly • multicellular organism development • positive regulation of actin cytoskeleton reorganization • activation of MAPK activity • positive regulation of cell migration • response to corticosterone • autophosphorylation • negative regulation of cell death • heart development • positive regulation of apoptotic process • peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation • cochlea development • nervous system development • positive regulation of gene expression • negative regulation of protein phosphorylation • GO:0032861, GO:0032862, GO:0032856 activation of GTPase activity • protein phosphorylation • neurotrophin signaling pathway • cellular response to retinoic acid • neuron fate specification • positive regulation of axon extension involved in regeneration • positive regulation of cell proliferation • modulation by virus of host transcription • lens fiber cell differentiation • mechanoreceptor differentiation • response to axon injury • positive regulation of positive chemotaxis • cell differentiation • negative regulation of astrocyte differentiation • positive regulation of protein phosphorylation • neuron migration • phosphorylation • transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase signaling pathway • positive regulation of phospholipase C activity • positive regulation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling • regulation of postsynaptic density assembly • regulation of presynapse assembly • negative regulation of signal transduction • positive regulation of neuron projection development • neuronal action potential propagation • myelination in peripheral nervous system • negative regulation of apoptotic process • positive regulation of ERK1 and ERK2 cascade • cellular response to nerve growth factor stimulus • regulation of MAPK cascade • positive regulation of MAPK cascade • positive regulation of neurotrophin TRK receptor signaling pathway Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	4916	18213
Ensembl	ENSG00000140538	ENSMUSG00000059146
UniProt	Q16288	Q6VNS1
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001007156 NM_001012338 NM_001243101 NM_002530 NM_001320134 NM_001320135 NM_001375810 NM_001375811 NM_001375812 NM_001375813 NM_001375814	NM_008746 NM_182809
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001007157 NP_001012338 NP_001230030 NP_001307063 NP_001307064 NP_002521 NP_001362739 NP_001362740 NP_001362741 NP_001362742 NP_001362743 NP_002521.2	NP_032772 NP_877961
Location (UCSC)	Chr 15: 87.86 – 88.26 Mb	Chr 7: 78.18 – 78.74 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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TrkC is the high affinity catalytic receptor for the neurotrophin NT-3 (neurotrophin-3). As such, TrkC mediates the multiple effects of this neurotrophic factor, which includes neuronal differentiation and survival.

The TrkC receptor is part of the large family of receptor tyrosine kinases. A "tyrosine kinase" is an enzyme which is capable of adding a phosphate group to the certain tyrosines on target proteins, or "substrates". A receptor tyrosine kinase is a "tyrosine kinase" which is located at the cellular membrane, and is activated by binding of a ligand via its extracellular domain. Other example of tyrosine kinase receptors include the insulin receptor, the IGF-1 receptor, the MuSK protein receptor, the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor, etc. The "substrate" proteins which are phosphorylated by TrkC include PI3 kinase.

Family members

TrkC is part of a sub-family of protein kinases which includes TrkA and TrkB. Also, there are other neurotrophic factors structurally related to NT-3: NGF (for Nerve Growth Factor), BDNF (for Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) and NT-4 (for Neurotrophin-4). While TrkB mediates the effects of BDNF, NT-4 and NT-3, TrkA is bound and thereby activated only by NGF. Further, TrkC binds and is activated only by NT-3.

TrkB binds BDNF and NT-4 more strongly than it binds NT-3. TrkC binds NT-3 more strongly than TrkB does.

Receptor

There is one other NT-3 receptor family besides the Trks (TrkC & TrkB), called the "LNGFR" (for "low affinity nerve growth factor receptor"). As opposed to TrkC, the LNGFR plays a somewhat less clear role in NT-3 biology. Some researchers have shown the LNGFR binds and serves as a "sink" for neurotrophins. Cells which express both the LNGFR and the Trk receptors might therefore have a greater activity - since they have a higher "microconcentration" of the neurotrophin. It has also been shown, however, that the LNGFR may signal a cell to die via apoptosis - so therefore cells expressing the LNGFR in the absence of Trk receptors may die rather than live in the presence of a neurotrophin.

It has been demonstrated that NTRK3 is a dependence receptor, meaning that it can be capable of inducing proliferation when it binds to its ligand NT-3, however, the absence of the NT-3 will result in the induction of apoptosis by NTRK3.[7]

Role in cancer

Although originally identified as an oncogenic fusion in 1982,[8] only recently has there been a renewed interest in the Trk family as it relates to its role in human cancers because of the identification of NTRK1 (TrkA), NTRK2 (TrkB) and NTRK3 (TrkC) gene fusions and other oncogenic alterations in a number of tumor types. A number of Trk inhibitors are (in 2015) in clinical trials and have shown early promise in shrinking human tumors.[9] Family of neurotrophin receptors including NTRK3 have been shown to induce a variety of pleiotorpic response in malignant cells, including enhanced tumor cell invasiveness and chemotoxis.[10] Increased NTRK3 expression has been demonstrated in neuroblastoma,[11] in medulloblastoma,[12] and in neuroectodermal brain tumors.[13]

NTRK3 methylation

The promoter region of NTRK3 contains a dense CpG island located relatively adjacent to the transcription start site (TSS). Using HumanMethylation450 arrays, quantitative methylation-specific PCR (qMSP), and Methylight assays, it has been indicated that NTRK3 is methylated in all CRC cell lines and non of the normal epithelium samples. In light of its preferential methylation in CRCs and because of its role as a neurotrophin receptor, it has been suggested to have a functional role in colorectal cancer formation.[14] It has also been suggested that methylation status of NTRK3 promoter is capable of discriminating CRC tumor samples from normal adjacent tumor-free tissue. Hence it can be considered as a biomarker for molecular detection of CRC, specially in combination with other markers like SEPT9.[15] NTRK3 has also been indicated as one of the genes in the panel of nine CpG methylation probes located at promoter or exon 1 region of eight genes (including DDIT3, FES, FLT3, SEPT5, SEPT9, SOX1, SOX17, and NTRK3) for prognostic prediction in ESCC (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma) patients.[16]

TrkC (NTRK3 gene) inhibitors in development

Entrectinib (formerly RXDX-101) is an investigational drug developed by Ignyta, Inc., which has potential antitumor activity. It is a selective pan-trk receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) targeting gene fusions in trkA, trkB, and trkC (coded by NTRK1, NTRK2, and NTRK3 genes) that is currently in phase 2 clinical testing.[17]

References

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Further reading

• Lamballe F, Klein R, Barbacid M (September 1991). "trkC, a new member of the trk family of tyrosine protein kinases, is a receptor for neurotrophin-3". Cell. 66 (5): 967–79. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90442-2. PMID 1653651.
• Tessarollo L, Tsoulfas P, Martin-Zanca D, Gilbert DJ, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG, Parada LF (June 1993). "trkC, a receptor for neurotrophin-3, is widely expressed in the developing nervous system and in non-neuronal tissues". Development. 118 (2): 463–75. PMID 8223273.
• Klein R, Silos-Santiago I, Smeyne RJ, Lira SA, Brambilla R, Bryant S, et al. (March 1994). "Disruption of the neurotrophin-3 receptor gene trkC eliminates la muscle afferents and results in abnormal movements". Nature. 368 (6468): 249–51. Bibcode:1994Natur.368..249K. doi:10.1038/368249a0. PMID 8145824.
• Ip NY, Stitt TN, Tapley P, Klein R, Glass DJ, Fandl J, et al. (February 1993). "Similarities and differences in the way neurotrophins interact with the Trk receptors in neuronal and nonneuronal cells". Neuron. 10 (2): 137–49. doi:10.1016/0896-6273(93)90306-C. PMID 7679912.
• Ebendal T (August 1992). "Function and evolution in the NGF family and its receptors". Journal of Neuroscience Research. 32 (4): 461–70. doi:10.1002/jnr.490320402. PMID 1326636.
• Guiton M, Gunn-Moore FJ, Glass DJ, Geis DR, Yancopoulos GD, Tavaré JM (September 1995). "Naturally occurring tyrosine kinase inserts block high affinity binding of phospholipase C gamma and Shc to TrkC and neurotrophin-3 signaling". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270 (35): 20384–90. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.35.20384. PMID 7657612.
• Shelton DL, Sutherland J, Gripp J, Camerato T, Armanini MP, Phillips HS, et al. (January 1995). "Human trks: molecular cloning, tissue distribution, and expression of extracellular domain immunoadhesins". The Journal of Neuroscience. 15 (1 Pt 2): 477–91. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.15-01-00477.1995. PMC 6578290. PMID 7823156.
• Pflug BR, Dionne C, Kaplan DR, Lynch J, Djakiew D (January 1995). "Expression of a Trk high affinity nerve growth factor receptor in the human prostate". Endocrinology. 136 (1): 262–8. doi:10.1210/en.136.1.262. PMID 7828539.
• Lamballe F, Tapley P, Barbacid M (August 1993). "trkC encodes multiple neurotrophin-3 receptors with distinct biological properties and substrate specificities". The EMBO Journal. 12 (8): 3083–94. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1993.tb05977.x. PMC 413573. PMID 8344249.
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• Knezevich SR, McFadden DE, Tao W, Lim JF, Sorensen PH (February 1998). "A novel ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion in congenital fibrosarcoma". Nature Genetics. 18 (2): 184–7. doi:10.1038/ng0298-184. PMID 9462753.
• Urfer R, Tsoulfas P, O'Connell L, Hongo JA, Zhao W, Presta LG (March 1998). "High resolution mapping of the binding site of TrkA for nerve growth factor and TrkC for neurotrophin-3 on the second immunoglobulin-like domain of the Trk receptors". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273 (10): 5829–40. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.10.5829. PMID 9488719.
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