behavior/neurological
• homozygotes display nurturing abnormalities
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growth/size/body
• homozygotes survive to adulthood and are fertile, but exhibit gender-specific differences in body size
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cellular
• in vitro, MEFs derived from homozygous mutant mice exhibit a 70% and 60% reduction in tyrosine kinase activity of c-Src and Fyn, respectively, as determined by measuring the amount of 32P incorporated into an exogenous substrate (enolase), along with a concomitant increase in c-Src Tyr527 phosphorylation
• reduced c-Src kinase activity is also noted in tissue lysates from homozygous mutant mice
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• after initial attachment to a fibronectin-coated surface, mutant MEFs display an obvious but transient delay in integrin-mediated cell spreading, which is most prominent between 10 and 20 min after plating, similar to the spreading deficit reported for c-src gene inactivation
• in response to adhesion on a fibronectin substrate, mutant MEFs show impaired activation of integrin-induced signaling events, such as reduced tyrosine phosphorylation of the c-Src substrates p130cas and Fak, and reduced activation of extracellular signal regulated (Erk) MAP kinases
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