Boned Del Río, I; Young, LC; Sari, S; Jones, GG; Ringham-Terry, B; Hartig, N; Rejnowicz, E; ... Rodriguez-Viciana, P; + view all Boned Del Río, I; Young, LC; Sari, S; Jones, GG; Ringham-Terry, B; Hartig, N; Rejnowicz, E; Lei, W; Bhamra, A; Surinova, S; Rodriguez-Viciana, P; - view fewer (2019) SHOC2 complex-driven RAF dimerization selectively contributes to ERK pathway dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 10.1073/pnas.1902658116. (In press).

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Abstract

Despite the crucial role of RAF kinases in cell signaling and disease, we still lack a complete understanding of their regulation. Heterodimerization of RAF kinases as well as dephosphorylation of a conserved "S259" inhibitory site are important steps for RAF activation but the precise mechanisms and dynamics remain unclear. A ternary complex comprised of SHOC2, MRAS, and PP1 (SHOC2 complex) functions as a RAF S259 holophosphatase and gain-of-function mutations in SHOC2, MRAS, and PP1 that promote complex formation are found in Noonan syndrome. Here we show that SHOC2 complex-mediated S259 RAF dephosphorylation is critically required for growth factor-induced RAF heterodimerization as well as for MEK dissociation from BRAF. We also uncover SHOC2-independent mechanisms of RAF and ERK pathway activation that rely on N-region phosphorylation of CRAF. In DLD-1 cells stimulated with EGF, SHOC2 function is essential for a rapid transient phase of ERK activation, but is not required for a slow, sustained phase that is instead driven by palmitoylated H/N-RAS proteins and CRAF. Whereas redundant SHOC2-dependent and -independent mechanisms of RAF and ERK activation make SHOC2 dispensable for proliferation in 2D, KRAS mutant cells preferentially rely on SHOC2 for ERK signaling under anchorage-independent conditions. Our study highlights a context-dependent contribution of SHOC2 to ERK pathway dynamics that is preferentially engaged by KRAS oncogenic signaling and provides a biochemical framework for selective ERK pathway inhibition by targeting the SHOC2 holophosphatase.

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