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Structural highlights

Disease

[TIE2_HUMAN] Defects in TEK are a cause of dominantly inherited venous malformations (VMCM) [MIM:600195]; an error of vascular morphogenesis characterized by dilated, serpiginous channels.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} Note=May play a role in a range of diseases with a vascular component, including neovascularization of tumors, psoriasis and inflammation.^{[6] [7]}

Function

[TIE2_HUMAN] Tyrosine-protein kinase that acts as cell-surface receptor for ANGPT1, ANGPT2 and ANGPT4 and regulates angiogenesis, endothelial cell survival, proliferation, migration, adhesion and cell spreading, reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, but also maintenance of vascular quiescence. Has anti-inflammatory effects by preventing the leakage of proinflammatory plasma proteins and leukocytes from blood vessels. Required for normal angiogenesis and heart development during embryogenesis. Required for post-natal hematopoiesis. After birth, activates or inhibits angiogenesis, depending on the context. Inhibits angiogenesis and promotes vascular stability in quiescent vessels, where endothelial cells have tight contacts. In quiescent vessels, ANGPT1 oligomers recruit TEK to cell-cell contacts, forming complexes with TEK molecules from adjoining cells, and this leads to preferential activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and the AKT1 signaling cascades. In migrating endothelial cells that lack cell-cell adhesions, ANGT1 recruits TEK to contacts with the extracellular matrix, leading to the formation of focal adhesion complexes, activation of PTK2/FAK and of the downstream kinases MAPK1/ERK2 and MAPK3/ERK1, and ultimately to the stimulation of sprouting angiogenesis. ANGPT1 signaling triggers receptor dimerization and autophosphorylation at specific tyrosine residues that then serve as binding sites for scaffold proteins and effectors. Signaling is modulated by ANGPT2 that has lower affinity for TEK, can promote TEK autophosphorylation in the absence of ANGPT1, but inhibits ANGPT1-mediated signaling by competing for the same binding site. Signaling is also modulated by formation of heterodimers with TIE1, and by proteolytic processing that gives rise to a soluble TEK extracellular domain. The soluble extracellular domain modulates signaling by functioning as decoy receptor for angiopoietins. TEK phosphorylates DOK2, GRB7, GRB14, PIK3R1; SHC1 and TIE1.^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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References

1. ↑ Martin V, Liu D, Fueyo J, Gomez-Manzano C. Tie2: a journey from normal angiogenesis to cancer and beyond. Histol Histopathol. 2008 Jun;23(6):773-80. PMID:18366015
2. ↑ Huang H, Bhat A, Woodnutt G, Lappe R. Targeting the ANGPT-TIE2 pathway in malignancy. Nat Rev Cancer. 2010 Aug;10(8):575-85. doi: 10.1038/nrc2894. PMID:20651738 doi:10.1038/nrc2894
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9. ↑ Cascone I, Audero E, Giraudo E, Napione L, Maniero F, Philips MR, Collard JG, Serini G, Bussolino F. Tie-2-dependent activation of RhoA and Rac1 participates in endothelial cell motility triggered by angiopoietin-1. Blood. 2003 Oct 1;102(7):2482-90. Epub 2003 Jun 19. PMID:12816861 doi:10.1182/blood-2003-03-0670
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11. ↑ Audero E, Cascone I, Maniero F, Napione L, Arese M, Lanfrancone L, Bussolino F. Adaptor ShcA protein binds tyrosine kinase Tie2 receptor and regulates migration and sprouting but not survival of endothelial cells. J Biol Chem. 2004 Mar 26;279(13):13224-33. Epub 2003 Dec 9. PMID:14665640 doi:10.1074/jbc.M307456200
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15. ↑ Yuan HT, Khankin EV, Karumanchi SA, Parikh SM. Angiopoietin 2 is a partial agonist/antagonist of Tie2 signaling in the endothelium. Mol Cell Biol. 2009 Apr;29(8):2011-22. doi: 10.1128/MCB.01472-08. Epub 2009 Feb, 17. PMID:19223473 doi:10.1128/MCB.01472-08
16. ↑ Martin V, Liu D, Fueyo J, Gomez-Manzano C. Tie2: a journey from normal angiogenesis to cancer and beyond. Histol Histopathol. 2008 Jun;23(6):773-80. PMID:18366015
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