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Marholz LJ, Zeringo NA, Lou HJ, Turk BE, Parker LL. In Silico Design and in Vitro Characterization of Universal Tyrosine Kinase Peptide Substrates. Biochemistry 2018. [PMID: 29528224 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A majority of the 90 human protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are understudied "orphan" enzymes with few or no known substrates. Designing experiments aimed at assaying the catalytic activity of these PTKs has been a long-running problem. In the past, researchers have used polypeptides with a randomized 4:1 molar ratio of glutamic acid to tyrosine as general PTK substrates. However, these substrates are inefficient and perform poorly for many applications. In this work, we apply the KINATEST-ID pipeline for artificial kinase substrate discovery to design a set of candidate "universal" PTK peptide substrate sequences. We identified two unique peptide sequences from this set that had robust activity with a panel of 15 PTKs tested in an initial screen. Kinetic characterization with seven receptor and nonreceptor PTKs confirmed these peptides to be efficient and general PTK substrates. The broad scope of these artificial substrates demonstrates that they should be useful as tools for probing understudied PTK activity.
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- Laura J Marholz
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics , University of Minnesota , 420 Washington Avenue Southeast , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology , Yale University School of Medicine , P.O. Box 208066, 333 Cedar Street , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology , Yale University School of Medicine , P.O. Box 208066, 333 Cedar Street , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology , Yale University School of Medicine , P.O. Box 208066, 333 Cedar Street , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics , University of Minnesota , 420 Washington Avenue Southeast , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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Nemoto K, Takemori N, Seki M, Shinozaki K, Sawasaki T. Members of the Plant CRK Superfamily Are Capable of Trans- and Autophosphorylation of Tyrosine Residues. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:16665-77. [PMID: 25969537 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.617274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Protein phosphorylation on Tyr residues is a key post-translational modification in mammals. In plants, recent studies have identified Tyr-specific protein phosphatase and Tyr-phosphorylated proteins in Arabidopsis by phosphoproteomic screenings, implying that plants have a Tyr phosphorylation signal pathway. However, little is known about the protein kinases (PKs) involved in Tyr phosphorylation in plants. Here, we demonstrate that Arabidopsis calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK/CPK)-related PKs (CRKs) have high Tyr-autophosphorylation activity and that they can phosphorylate Tyr residue(s) on substrate proteins in Arabidopsis. To identify PKs for Tyr phosphorylation, we examined the autophosphorylation activity of 759 PKs using an Arabidopsis protein array based on a wheat cell-free system. In total, we identified 38 PKs with Tyr-autophosphorylation activity. The CRK family was a major protein family identified. A cell-free substrate screening revealed that these CRKs phosphorylate β-tubulin (TBB) 2, TBB7, and certain transcription factors (TFs) such as ethylene response factor 13 (ERF13). All five CRKs tested showed Tyr-auto/trans-phosphorylation activity and especially two CRKs, CRK2 and CRK3, showed a high ERF13 Tyr-phosphorylation activity. A cell-based transient expression assay revealed that Tyr(16/)Tyr(207) sites in ERF13 were phosphorylated by CRK3 and that Tyr phosphorylation of endogenous TBBs occurs in CRK2 overexpressing cells. Furthermore, crk2 and crk3 mutants showed a decrease in the Tyr phosphorylation level of TBBs. These results suggest that CRKs have Tyr kinase activity, and these might be one of the major PKs responsible for protein Tyr phosphorylation in Arabidopsis plants.
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- Keiichirou Nemoto
- From the Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577 and
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- From the Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577 and
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- the Plant Genomic Network Research Team and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- the Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, and
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- From the Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577 and
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Parthibane V, Iyappan R, Vijayakumar A, Venkateshwari V, Rajasekharan R. Serine/threonine/tyrosine protein kinase phosphorylates oleosin, a regulator of lipid metabolic functions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 159:95-104. [PMID: 22434039 PMCID: PMC3375988 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.197194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Plant oils are stored in oleosomes or oil bodies, which are surrounded by a monolayer of phospholipids embedded with oleosin proteins that stabilize the structure. Recently, a structural protein, Oleosin3 (OLE3), was shown to exhibit both monoacylglycerol acyltransferase and phospholipase A(2) activities. The regulation of these distinct dual activities in a single protein is unclear. Here, we report that a serine/threonine/tyrosine protein kinase phosphorylates oleosin. Using bimolecular fluorescence complementation analysis, we demonstrate that this kinase interacts with OLE3 and that the fluorescence was associated with chloroplasts. Oleosin-green fluorescent protein fusion protein was exclusively associated with the chloroplasts. Phosphorylated OLE3 exhibited reduced monoacylglycerol acyltransferase and increased phospholipase A(2) activities. Moreover, phosphatidylcholine and diacylglycerol activated oleosin phosphorylation, whereas lysophosphatidylcholine, oleic acid, and Ca(2+) inhibited phosphorylation. In addition, recombinant peanut (Arachis hypogaea) kinase was determined to predominantly phosphorylate serine residues, specifically serine-18 in OLE3. Phosphorylation levels of OLE3 during seed germination were determined to be higher than in developing peanut seeds. These findings provide direct evidence for the in vivo substrate selectivity of the dual-specificity kinase and demonstrate that the bifunctional activities of oleosin are regulated by phosphorylation.
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Xu F, Meng T, Li P, Yu Y, Cui Y, Wang Y, Gong Q, Wang NN. A soybean dual-specificity kinase, GmSARK, and its Arabidopsis homolog, AtSARK, regulate leaf senescence through synergistic actions of auxin and ethylene. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 157:2131-53. [PMID: 22034630 PMCID: PMC3327223 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.182899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/25/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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As the last stage of leaf development, senescence is a fine-tuned process regulated by interplays of multiple signaling pathways. We have previously identified soybean (Glycine max) SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE (SARK), a leucine-rich repeat-receptor-like protein kinase from soybean, as a positive regulator of leaf senescence. Here, we report the elucidation of the molecular mechanism of GmSARK-mediated leaf senescence, especially its specific roles in senescence-inducing hormonal pathways. A glucocorticoid-inducible transcription system was used to produce transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants for inducible overexpression of GmSARK, which led to early leaf senescence, chloroplast destruction, and abnormal flower morphology in Arabidopsis. Transcript analyses of the GmSARK-overexpressing seedlings revealed a multitude of changes in phytohormone synthesis and signaling, specifically the repression of cytokinin functions and the induction of auxin and ethylene pathways. Inhibition of either auxin action or ethylene biosynthesis alleviated the senescence induced by GmSARK. Consistently, mutation of either AUXIN RESISTANT1 or ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2 completely reversed the GmSARK-induced senescence. We further identified a homolog of GmSARK with a similar expression pattern in Arabidopsis and named it AtSARK. Inducible overexpression of AtSARK caused precocious senescence and abnormal floral organ development nearly identical to the GmSARK-overexpressing plants, whereas a T-DNA insertion mutant of AtSARK showed significantly delayed senescence. A kinase assay on recombinant catalytic domains of GmSARK and AtSARK revealed that these two leucine-rich repeat-receptor-like protein kinases autophosphorylate on both serine/threonine and tyrosine residues. We inferred that the SARK-mediated pathway may be a widespread mechanism in regulating leaf senescence.
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Ghelis T. Signal processing by protein tyrosine phosphorylation in plants. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2011; 6:942-51. [PMID: 21628997 PMCID: PMC3257767 DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.7.15261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 02/22/2011] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Protein phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification controlling many biological processes. Most phosphorylation occurs on serine and threonine, and to a less extend on tyrosine (Tyr). In animals, Tyr phosphorylation is crucial for the regulation of many responses such as growth or differentiation. Only recently with the development of mass spectrometry, it has been reported that Tyr phosphorylation is as important in plants as in animals. The genes encoding protein Tyr kinases and protein Tyr phosphatases have been identified in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Putative substrates of these enzymes, and thus Tyr-phosphorylated proteins have been reported by proteomic studies based on accurate mass spectrometry analysis of the phosphopeptides and phosphoproteins. Biochemical approaches, pharmacology and genetic manipulations have indicated that responses to stress and developmental processes involve changes in protein Tyr phosphorylation. The aim of this review is to present an update on Tyr phosphorylation in plants in order to better assess the role of this post-translational modification in plant physiology.
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- Thanos Ghelis
- UPMC Université Paris 06, Sorbonne Universités, UR5 EAC 7180 CNRS, Physiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire des Plantes, Paris, France.
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Ritsema T, Brodmann D, Diks SH, Bos CL, Nagaraj V, Pieterse CM, Boller T, Wiemken A, Peppelenbosch MP. Are small GTPases signal hubs in sugar-mediated induction of fructan biosynthesis? PLoS One 2009; 4:e6605. [PMID: 19672308 PMCID: PMC2720452 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2009] [Accepted: 06/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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External sugar initiates biosynthesis of the reserve carbohydrate fructan, but the molecular processes mediating this response remain obscure. Previously it was shown that a phosphatase and a general kinase inhibitor hamper fructan accumulation. We use various phosphorylation inhibitors both in barley and in Arabidopsis and show that the expression of fructan biosynthetic genes is dependent on PP2A and different kinases such as Tyr-kinases and PI3-kinases. To further characterize the phosphorylation events involved, comprehensive analysis of kinase activities in the cell was performed using a PepChip, an array of >1000 kinase consensus substrate peptide substrates spotted on a chip. Comparison of kinase activities in sugar-stimulated and mock(sorbitol)-treated Arabidopsis demonstrates the altered phosphorylation of many consensus substrates and documents the differences in plant kinase activity upon sucrose feeding. The different phosphorylation profiles obtained are consistent with sugar-mediated alterations in Tyr phosphorylation, cell cycling, and phosphoinositide signaling, and indicate cytoskeletal rearrangements. The results lead us to infer a central role for small GTPases in sugar signaling.
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- Tita Ritsema
- Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, Basel, Switzerland
- Plant-Microbe interactions, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, Basel, Switzerland
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- Plant-Microbe interactions, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, Basel, Switzerland
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- Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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de la Fuente van Bentem S, Hirt H. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation in plants: More abundant than expected? TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2009; 14:71-6. [PMID: 19162527 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2008] [Revised: 11/09/2008] [Accepted: 11/13/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Protein phosphorylation in eukaryotes predominantly occurs on serine (Ser) and threonine (Thr) residues, whereas phosphorylation on tyrosine (Tyr) residues is less abundant. Plants lack classic Tyr kinases, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor, that govern Tyr phosphorylation in animals. A long-standing debate questions whether plants have any Tyr-specific kinases and, although several protein kinases with both Ser/Thr and Tyr specificities exist, data supporting the existence of other such kinases are scarce. As we discuss here, mass-spectrometry-based analyses now indicate that Tyr phosphorylation is as extensive in plants as it is in animals. However, careful inspection of available data indicates that these promising mass spectrometry studies have to be interpreted with caution before current ideas on Tyr phosphorylation in plants are revised.
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- Sergio de la Fuente van Bentem
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Xu ZS, Liu L, Ni ZY, Liu P, Chen M, Li LC, Chen YF, Ma YZ. W55a encodes a novel protein kinase that is involved in multiple stress responses. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2009; 51:58-66. [PMID: 19166495 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2008.00776.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Protein kinases play crucial roles in response to external environment stress signals. A putative protein kinase, W55a, belonging to SNF1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2) subfamily, was isolated from a cDNA library of drought-treated wheat seedlings. The entire length of W55a was obtained using rapid amplification of 5' cDNA ends (5'-RACE) and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR). It contains a 1,029 -bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding 342 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence of W55a had eleven conserved catalytic subdomains and one Ser/Thr protein kinase active-site that characterize Ser/Thr protein kinases. Phylogenetic analysis showed that W55a was 90.38% homologous with rice SAPK1, a member of the SnRK2 family. Using nullisomic-tetrasomic and ditelocentric lines of Chinese Spring, W55a was located on chromosome 2BS. Expression pattern analysis revealed that W55a was upregulated by drought and salt, exogenous abscisic acid, salicylic acid, ethylene and methyl jasmonate, but was not responsive to cold stress. In addition, W55a transcripts were abundant in leaves, but not in roots or stems, under environmental stresses. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants overexpressing W55a exhibited higher tolerance to drought. Based on these findings, W55a encodes a novel dehydration-responsive protein kinase that is involved in multiple stress signal transductions.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Plant/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification
- Droughts
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plant Leaves/genetics
- Plant Proteins/chemistry
- Plant Proteins/genetics
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Protein Kinases/chemistry
- Protein Kinases/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Stress, Physiological
- Triticum/enzymology
- Triticum/genetics
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- Zhao-Shi Xu
- National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Crop Science, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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Blume Y, Yemets A, Sulimenko V, Sulimenko T, Chan J, Lloyd C, Dráber P. Tyrosine phosphorylation of plant tubulin. PLANTA 2008; 229:143-50. [PMID: 18800224 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-008-0816-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Accepted: 08/15/2008] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Phosphorylation of alphabeta-tubulins dimers by protein tyrosine kinases plays an important role in the regulation of cellular growth and differentiation in animal cells. In plants, however, the role of tubulin tyrosine phosphorylation is unknown and data on this tubulin modification are limited. In this study, we used an immunochemical approach to demonstrate that tubulin isolated by both immunoprecipitation and DEAE-chromatography is phosphorylated on tyrosine residues in cultured cells of Nicotiana tabacum. This opens up the possibility that tyrosine phosphorylation of tubulin could be involved in modulating the properties of plant microtubules.
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- Yaroslav Blume
- Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Acad. Zabolotny Str., 148, 03680 Kiev, Ukraine.
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Reddy MM, Rajasekharan R. Serine/threonine/tyrosine protein kinase from Arabidopsis thaliana is dependent on serine residues for its activity. Arch Biochem Biophys 2007; 460:122-8. [PMID: 17291444 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2007.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2006] [Revised: 01/02/2007] [Accepted: 01/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Genome-wide analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana with tyrosine kinase motif from animals predicted that tyrosine phosphorylation could be brought about only by dual-specificity protein kinases in plants. However, their regulation is poorly understood. In the present study, we have investigated the role of serines required for the activity of Arabidopsis thaliana serine/threonine/tyrosine protein kinase (AtSTYPK). There are eight serines in the kinase catalytic domain. The role of each serine residue was studied individually by substituting them with alanine. Serines at positions 215, 259, 269 and 315 are required for the kinase activity both in terms of auto and substrate phosphorylations of myelin basic protein. The mutant S265A showed slight increase in auto and substrate phosphorylations. Other serines at positions 165, 181 and 360 did not show any change in the phosphorylation status as compared to wild-type. In conclusion, these results suggest the importance of serine residues required for dual-specificity protein kinase activity.
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- Mamatha M Reddy
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Reddy MM, Rajasekharan R. Role of threonine residues in the regulation of manganese-dependent arabidopsis serine/threonine/tyrosine protein kinase activity. Arch Biochem Biophys 2006; 455:99-109. [PMID: 17054899 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2006.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2006] [Revised: 09/13/2006] [Accepted: 09/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Tyrosine phosphorylation in plants could be performed only by dual-specificity kinases. Arabidopsis thaliana dual-specificity protein kinase (AtSTYPK) exhibited strong preference for manganese over magnesium for its kinase activity. The kinase autophosphorylated on serine, threonine and tyrosine residues and phosphorylated myelin basic protein on threonine and tyrosine residues. The AtSTYPK harbors manganese dependent serine/threonine kinase domain, COG3642. His248 and Ser265 on COG3642 are conserved in AtSTYPK and the site-directed mutant, H248A showed loss of serine/threonine kinase activity. The protein kinase activity was abolished when Thr208 in the TEY motif and Thr293 of the activation loop were converted to alanine. The conversion of Thr284 in the activation loop to alanine resulted in an increased phosphorylation. This study reports the first identification of a manganese dependent dual-specificity kinase and the importance of Thr208, Thr284, and Thr293 residues in the regulation of kinase activity.
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- Mamatha M Reddy
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Li XP, Gan R, Li PL, Ma YY, Zhang LW, Zhang R, Wang Y, Wang NN. Identification and functional characterization of a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase gene that is involved in regulation of soybean leaf senescence. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 61:829-44. [PMID: 16927199 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-0052-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 03/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We report here the cloning and characterization of a soybean receptor-like kinase (RLK) gene, designated GmSARK (Glycine max senescence-associated receptor-like kinase), which is involved in regulating leaf senescence. The conceptual protein product of GmSARK contains typical domains of LRR receptor-like kinases: a cytoplasmic domain with all the 11 kinase subdomains, a transmembrane domain and an extracelullar domain containing 9 Leucine-Rich Repeat (LRR) units that may act as a receptor. The expression of GmSARK in soybean leaves was up-regulated in all the three tested senescence systems: senescing cotyledons, dark-induced primary leaf senescence and the natural leaf senescence process after florescence. Furthermore, the RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated knocking-down of GmSARK dramatically retarded soybean leaf senescence. A more complex thylakoid membrane system, higher foliar level of chlorophyll content and a very remarkable delay of senescence-induced disintegration of chloroplast structure were observed in GmSARK-RNAi transgenic leaves. A homolog of maize lethal leaf-spot 1 gene, which has been suggested to encode a key enzyme catalyzing chlorophyll breakdown, was isolated and nominated Gmlls1. The expression level of Gmgtr1 gene, which encodes a key enzyme of chlorophyll synthesis, was also analyzed. It was found that Gmlls1 was up-regulated and Gmgtr1 was down-regulated during senescence in wild-type soybean leaves. However, both of the up-regulation of Gmlls1 and down-regulation of Gmgtr1 were retarded during senescence of GmSARK-RNAi transgenic leaves. In addition, over-expression of the GmSARK gene greatly accelerated the senescence progression of CaMV 35S:GmSARK transgenic plants. Taken together, these results strongly suggested the involvement of this LRR-RLK in regulation of soybean leaf senescence, maybe via regulating chloroplast development and chlorophyll accumulation. Multiple functions of GmSARK besides its regulation of leaf senescence were also discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chloroplasts/physiology
- Chloroplasts/ultrastructure
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Flowers/enzymology
- Flowers/genetics
- Flowers/growth & development
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plant Leaves/enzymology
- Plant Leaves/genetics
- Plant Leaves/physiology
- Plant Proteins/genetics
- Plant Proteins/metabolism
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Protein Kinases/genetics
- Protein Kinases/metabolism
- RNA Interference
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Glycine max/enzymology
- Glycine max/genetics
- Glycine max/physiology
- Thylakoids/ultrastructure
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- Xiao-Ping Li
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, PR China
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Jiménez JA, Rodríguez D, Lorenzo O, Nicolás G, Nicolás C. Characterization of a protein kinase (FsPK4) with an acidic domain, regulated by abscisic acid and specifically located in Fagus sylvatica L. seeds. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 163:761-9. [PMID: 16616587 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2005.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2005] [Accepted: 07/07/2005] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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An abscisic acid (ABA)-induced cDNA fragment encoding a putative serine/threonine protein kinase (PK) was obtained by means of differential reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The full-length clone (FsPK4) was isolated from a cDNA library constructed using mRNA from ABA-treated Fagus sylvatica L. seeds. This clone contained the 11 catalytic domains present in all PKs and a highly acidic domain in the C-terminus. By expressing FsPK4 in Escherichia coli as a His tag fusion protein, we obtained direct biochemical evidence supporting Ca2+-dependent kinase activity of this protein. The expression of FsPK4 increased after ABA treatment or warm pre-treatment, when seeds are maintained dormant, but decreased and tended to disappear when dormancy was released by stratification or under gibberellic acid (GA3) treatment, and when seeds were artificially dried. Further, FsPK4 transcript expression is tissue specific, and was found to accumulate in ABA-treated seeds rather than in other ABA-treated vegetative tissues examined. These results suggest that the expression of the corresponding protein could be more closely related with the maintenance of seed dormancy than with responses to drought stress mediated by ABA.
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- Jesús A Jiménez
- Departamento de Fisiología Vegetal, Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de los Doctores de la Reina s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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Rudrabhatla P, Reddy MM, Rajasekharan R. Genome-wide analysis and experimentation of plant serine/ threonine/tyrosine-specific protein kinases. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 60:293-319. [PMID: 16429265 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-4109-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Accepted: 10/17/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Protein tyrosine phosphorylation plays an important role in cell growth, development and oncogenesis. No classical protein tyrosine kinase has hitherto been cloned from plants. Does protein tyrosine kinase exist in plants? To address this, we have performed a genomic survey of protein tyrosine kinase motifs in plants using the delineated tyrosine phosphorylation motifs from the animal system. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes 57 different protein kinases that have tyrosine kinase motifs. Animal non-receptor tyrosine kinases, SRC, ABL, LYN, FES, SEK, KIN and RAS have structural relationship with putative plant tyrosine kinases. In an extended analysis, animal receptor and non-receptor kinases, Raf and Ras kinases, mixed lineage kinases and plant serine/threonine/tyrosine (STY) protein kinases, form a well-supported group sharing a common origin within the superfamily of STY kinases. We report that plants lack bona fide tyrosine kinases, which raise an intriguing possibility that tyrosine phosphorylation is carried out by dual-specificity STY protein kinases in plants. The distribution pattern of STY protein kinase families on Arabidopsis chromosomes indicates that this gene family is partly a consequence of duplication and reshuffling of the Arabidopsis genome and of the generation of tandem repeats. Genome-wide analysis is supported by the functional expression and characterization of At2g24360 and phosphoproteomics of Arabidopsis. Evidence for tyrosine phosphorylated proteins is provided by alkaline hydrolysis, anti-phosphotyrosine immunoblotting, phosphoamino acid analysis and peptide mass fingerprinting. These results report the first comprehensive survey of genome-wide and tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis of plant STY protein kinases.
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- Parvathi Rudrabhatla
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, 560012 Bangalore, India
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Jang JY, Kwak KJ, Kang H. Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding a kinase in Cucumis sativus and its expression by abiotic stress treatments. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 1679:74-9. [PMID: 15245919 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2004.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2003] [Revised: 01/29/2004] [Accepted: 03/24/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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As a part of an integrated study of stress-related gene expression, a cDNA clone coding for a protein kinase in the root of Cucumis sativus was isolated and characterized with respect to its sequence and the expression patterns upon various abiotic stress treatments. The predicted polypeptide of 352 amino acid residues contains characteristic features of both the serine/threonine and tyrosine kinase families. In vitro kinase assay confirmed that the isolated protein kinase has autophosphorylation activity. Southern blot analysis showed that the kinase gene is a single-copy gene. Northern blot analysis showed that the kinase gene was more abundantly expressed in the roots and shoots than in the leaves. A quantitative real-time reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that, among the abiotic stresses tested, drought treatment markedly decreased the transcript level of the kinase, whereas the expression of the kinase gene significantly increased by cold treatment. High salinity did not influence its expression. The present report identifies a dual specificity protein kinase in cucumber that shows different responses to abiotic stress treatments.
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- Ji Young Jang
- Division of Applied Plant Science and Agricultural Plant Stress Research Center, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-757, South Korea
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Gao Q, Hua J, Kimura R, Headd JJ, Fu XY, Chin YE. Identification of the linker-SH2 domain of STAT as the origin of the SH2 domain using two-dimensional structural alignment. Mol Cell Proteomics 2004; 3:704-14. [PMID: 15073273 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m300131-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The availability of large volumes of genomic sequences presents an unprecedented proteomic challenge to characterize the structure and function of various protein motifs. Primary structural alignment is often unable to accurately identify a given motif due to sequence divergence; however, with the aid of secondary structural prediction for analysis, it becomes feasible to explore protein motifs on a proteome-wide scale. Here we report the use of secondary structural alignment to characterize the Src homology 2 (SH2) domains of both conventional and divergent sequences and divide them into two groups, Src-type and STAT-type. In addition to the basic "alphabetabetabetaalpha" structure (betaBeta), the Src-type SH2 domain contains an extra beta-strand (betaE or betaE-betaF motif). Alternatively, the linker domain-conjugated SH2 domain in STAT contains the alphaB' motif. Combining BLAST data from betaBeta core motif sequences with predicted secondary structural alignment, we have screened for SH2 domains in various eukaryotic model systems including Arabidopsis, Dictyostelium, and Saccharomyces. Two novel genes carrying the linker-SH2 domain of STAT were discovered and subsequently cloned from Arabidopsis. These genes, designated as STAT-type linker-SH2 domain factors (STATL), are found in a wide array of vascular and nonvascular plants, suggesting that the linker-SH2 domain evolved prior to the divergence of plants and animals. Using this approach, we expanded the number of putative SH2 domain-bearing genes in Dictyostelium and comparatively studied the secondary structural profiles of both typical and atypical SH2 domains. Our results indicate that the linker-SH2 domain of the transcription factor STAT is one of the most ancient and fully developed functional domains, serving as a template for the continuing evolution of the SH2 domain essential for phosphotyrosine signal transduction.
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- Qian Gao
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Rudrabhatla P, Rajasekharan R. Mutational analysis of stress-responsive peanut dual specificity protein kinase. Identification of tyrosine residues involved in regulation of protein kinase activity. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17328-35. [PMID: 12624102 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300024200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We recently reported that Arachis hypogaea serine/threonine/tyrosine (STY) protein kinase is developmentally regulated and is induced by abiotic stresses (Rudrabhatla, P., and Rajasekharan, R. (2002) Plant Physiol. 130, 380-390). Other than MAPKs, the site of tyrosine phosphorylation has not been documented for any plant kinases. To study the role of tyrosines in the phosphorylation of STY protein kinase, four conserved tyrosine residues were sequentially substituted with phenylalanine and expressed as histidine fusion proteins. Mass spectrometry experiments showed that STY protein kinase autophosphorylated within the predicted kinase ATP-binding motif, activation loop, and an additional site in the C terminus. The protein kinase activity was abolished by substitution of Tyr(297) with Phe in the activation loop between subdomains VII and VIII. In addition, replacing Tyr(148) in the ATP-binding motif and Tyr(317) in the C-terminal domain with Phe not only obliterated the ability of the STY protein kinase protein to be phosphorylated, but also inhibited histone phosphorylation, suggesting that STY protein kinase is phosphorylated at multiple sites. Replacing Tyr(213) in the Thr-Glu-Tyr sequence motif with Phe resulted in a 4-fold increase in autophosphorylation and 2.8-fold increase in substrate phosphorylation activities. Mutants Y148F, Y297F, and Y317F displayed dramatically lower phosphorylation efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) with ATP and histone, whereas mutant Y213F showed increased phosphorylation. Our results suggest that autophosphorylation of Tyr(148), Tyr(213), Tyr(297), and Tyr(317) is important for the regulation of STY protein kinase activity. Our study reveals the first example of Thr-Glu-Tyr domain-mediated autoinhibition of kinases.
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- Parvathi Rudrabhatla
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Carpi A, Di Maira G, Vedovato M, Rossi V, Naccari T, Floriduz M, Terzi M, Filippini F. Comparative proteome bioinformatics: identification of a whole complement of putative protein tyrosine kinases in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteomics 2002; 2:1494-503. [PMID: 12442249 DOI: 10.1002/1615-9861(200211)2:11<1494::aid-prot1494>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Phosphorylation by protein tyrosine kinases is crucial to the control of growth and development of multicellular eukaryotes, including humans, and it also seems to play an important role in multicellular prokaryotes. A plant tyrosine-specific kinase has not been identified yet; hence, plants have been suggested to share with unicellular eukaryote yeast a tyrosine phosphorylation system where a limited number of stress proteins are tyrosyl-phosphorylated only by a few dual-specificity (serine/threonine and tyrosine) kinases. However, preliminary evidence obtained so far suggests that tyrosine phosphorylation in plants depends on the developmental conditions. Since sequencing of the genome of the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been recently completed, we have performed a bioinformatic screening of the whole Arabidopsis proteome to identify a model complement of bona fide protein tyrosine kinases. In silico analyses suggest that < 4% of Arabidopsis kinases are tyrosine-specific kinases, whose gene expression has been assessed by a preliminary polymerase chain reaction screening of an Arabidopsis cDNA library. Finally, immunological evidence confirms that the number of Arabidopsis proteins specifically phosphorylated on tyrosine residues is much higher than in yeast.
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- Andrea Carpi
- Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Rudrabhatla P, Rajasekharan R. Developmentally regulated dual-specificity kinase from peanut that is induced by abiotic stresses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:380-90. [PMID: 12226517 PMCID: PMC166570 DOI: 10.1104/pp.005173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2002] [Revised: 04/17/2002] [Accepted: 04/26/2002] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Tyrosine (Tyr) phosphorylation represents an important biochemical mechanism to regulate many cellular processes. No Tyr kinase has been cloned so far in plants. Dual-specificity kinases are reported in plants and the function of these kinases remains unknown. A 1.7-kb cDNA that encodes serine/threonine/Tyr (STY) kinase was isolated by screening peanut (Arachis hypogaea) expression library using the anti-phospho-Tyr antibody. The histidine-tagged recombinant kinase histidine-6-STY predominantly autophosphorylated on Tyr and phosphorylated the histone primarily on threonine. Genomic DNA gel-blot analysis revealed that STY kinase is a member of a small multigene family. The transcript of STY kinase is accumulated in the mid-maturation stage of seed development, suggesting a role in the signaling of storage of seed reserves. The STY kinase mRNA expression, as well as kinase activity, markedly increased in response to cold and salt treatments; however, no change in the protein level was observed, suggesting a posttranslational activation mechanism. The activation of the STY kinase is detected after 12 to 48 h of cold and salt treatments, which indicates that the kinase may not participate in the initial response to abiotic stresses, but may play a possible role in the adaptive process to adverse conditions. The transcript levels and kinase activity were unaltered with abscisic acid treatment, suggesting an abscisic acid-independent cold and salt signaling pathway. Here, we report the first identification of a non-MAP kinase cascade dual-specificity kinase involved in abiotic stress and seed development.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arachis/enzymology
- Arachis/genetics
- Arachis/growth & development
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Enzyme Activation/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/drug effects
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sodium Chloride/pharmacology
- Stress, Mechanical
- Substrate Specificity
- Temperature
- Transcriptional Activation/drug effects
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- Parvathi Rudrabhatla
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Gong D, Guo Y, Jagendorf AT, Zhu JK. Biochemical characterization of the Arabidopsis protein kinase SOS2 that functions in salt tolerance. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:256-64. [PMID: 12226505 PMCID: PMC166558 DOI: 10.1104/pp.004507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2002] [Revised: 04/17/2002] [Accepted: 05/16/2002] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The Arabidopsis Salt Overly Sensitive 2 (SOS2) gene encodes a serine/threonine (Thr) protein kinase that has been shown to be a critical component of the salt stress signaling pathway. SOS2 contains a sucrose-non-fermenting protein kinase 1/AMP-activated protein kinase-like N-terminal catalytic domain with an activation loop and a unique C-terminal regulatory domain with an FISL motif that binds to the calcium sensor Salt Overly Sensitive 3. In this study, we examined some of the biochemical properties of the SOS2 in vitro. To determine its biochemical properties, we expressed and isolated a number of active and inactive SOS2 mutants as glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins in Escherichia coli. Three constitutively active mutants, SOS2T168D, SOS2T168D Delta F, and SOS2T168D Delta 308, were obtained previously, which contain either the Thr-168 to aspartic acid (Asp) mutation in the activation loop or combine the activation loop mutation with removal of the FISL motif or the entire regulatory domain. These active mutants exhibited a preference for Mn(2+) relative to Mg(2+) and could not use GTP as phosphate donor for either substrate phosphorylation or autophosphorylation. The three enzymes had similar peptide substrate specificity and catalytic efficiency. Salt overly sensitive 3 had little effect on the activity of the activation loop mutant SOS2T168D, either in the presence or absence of calcium. The active mutant SOS2T168D Delta 308 could not transphosphorylate an inactive protein (SOS2K40N), which indicates an intramolecular reaction mechanism of SOS2 autophosphorylation. Interestingly, SOS2 could be activated not only by the Thr-168 to Asp mutation but also by a serine-156 or tyrosine-175 to Asp mutation within the activation loop. Our results provide insights into the regulation and biochemical properties of SOS2 and the SOS2 subfamily of protein kinases.
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- Deming Gong
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Gong D, Gong Z, Guo Y, Chen X, Zhu JK. Biochemical and functional characterization of PKS11, a novel Arabidopsis protein kinase. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:28340-50. [PMID: 12029080 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107719200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Arabidopsis SOS2 (Salt Overly Sensitive 2)-like protein kinases (PKS) are novel protein kinases that contain an SNF1-like catalytic domain with a putative activation loop and a regulatory domain with an FISL motif that binds calcium sensors. Very little biochemical and functional information is currently available on this family of kinases. Here we report on the expression of the PKS11 gene, activation and characterization of the gene product, and transgenic evaluation of its function in plants. PKS11 transcript was preferentially expressed in roots of Arabidopsis plants. Recombinant glutathione S-transferase fusion protein of PKS11 was inactive in substrate phosphorylation. However, the kinase can be highly activated by a threonine 161 to aspartate substitution (designated PKS11T161D) in the putative activation loop. Interestingly, PKS11 can also be activated by substitution of either a serine or tyrosine with aspartate within the activation loop. Deletion of the FISL motif also resulted in a slight activation of PKS11. PKS11T161D displayed an uncommon preference for Mn(2+) over Mg(2+) for substrate phosphorylation and autophosphorylation. The optimal pH and temperature values of PKS11T161D were determined to be 7.5 and 30 degrees C, respectively. The activated kinase showed substrate specificity, high affinity, and catalytic efficiency for a peptide substrate p3 and for ATP. AMP or ADP at concentrations from 10 microm to 1 mm did not activate PKS11T161D. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing PKS11T161D were more resistant to high concentrations of glucose, suggesting the involvement of this protein kinase in sugar signaling in plants. These results provide insights into the function as well as regulation and biochemical properties of the PKS protein kinase.
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- Deming Gong
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) signal transduction cascades are routes through which eukaryotic cells deliver extracellular messages to the cytosol and nucleus. These signalling pathways direct cell division, cellular differentiation, metabolism, and both biotic and abiotic stress responses. In plants, MAP kinases and the upstream components of the cascades are represented by multigene families, organized into different pathways which are stimulated and interact in complex ways. Experimental strategies for the analysis of MAP kinase cascades include the yeast two-hybrid system; using this approach in vitro interactions between specific MAP kinase cascade components have been analysed and putative plant cascades postulated. Transient transformation of protoplasts with epitope-tagged kinases has allowed cascades to be tested in planta. There is clear evidence for the involvement of MAP kinases in plant cell division and in the regulation of auxin signalling. Biotic (pathogens and pathogen-derived elicitors from fungi, bacteria and viruses) and abiotic stresses including wounding, mechanical stimulation, cold, drought and ozone can elicit defence responses in plants through MAP kinase pathways. There are data suggesting that ABA signalling utilizes a MAP kinase pathway, and probably ethylene and perhaps cytokinins do so also. The objective of this paper is to review this rapidly advancing field. Contents Summary 67 I. Introduction 68 II. Background 68 III. MAP kinase targets and targeting specificity 69 IV. Assays and inhibitors 70 V. Two well characterized MAP kinase pathways, Hog1 and Sevenless 71 VI. MAP kinases in plants 73 VII. MAP kinases and cell division 76 VIII. MAP kinases and plant hormones 76 IX. MAP kinase and abiotic stress 78 X. MAP kinase and biotic stress 80 XI. Future perspectives for MAP kinase research in plants 83 Acknowledgements 84 References 84.
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- Peter C Morris
- Heriot-Watt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
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Cho HS, Yoon GM, Lee SS, Kim YA, Hwang I, Choi D, Pai HS. A novel dual-specificity protein kinase targeted to the chloroplast in tobacco. FEBS Lett 2001; 497:124-30. [PMID: 11377426 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02439-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The NtDSK1 cDNA encoding a novel chloroplast-targeted protein kinase was identified in Nicotiana tabacum. It contains the kinase domain at the C-terminus and a putative regulatory domain at the N-terminus. The recombinant NtDSK1 underwent autophosphorylation of serine, threonine, and tyrosine residues, indicating that NtDSK1 encodes a functional dual-specificity protein kinase. The NtDSK1-green fluorescent protein fusion protein was targeted to chloroplasts. Furthermore, the NtDSK1 protein was immunodetected in chloroplast fractions isolated from tobacco seedlings. The NtDSK1 mRNA expression was developmentally regulated in different tissues, including anthers and germinating seeds, and strongly stimulated by gibberellin. The mRNA was rapidly light responsive during seedling growth. NtDSK1 may play a role in a light-regulated signaling process in tobacco.
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- H S Cho
- Plant Cell Biochemistry Labouratory, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea
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Kleinow T, Bhalerao R, Breuer F, Umeda M, Salchert K, Koncz C. Functional identification of an Arabidopsis snf4 ortholog by screening for heterologous multicopy suppressors of snf4 deficiency in yeast. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 23:115-22. [PMID: 10929106 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2000.00809.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Yeast Snf4 is a prototype of activating gamma-subunits of conserved Snf1/AMPK-related protein kinases (SnRKs) controlling glucose and stress signaling in eukaryotes. The catalytic subunits of Arabidopsis SnRKs, AKIN10 and AKIN11, interact with Snf4 and suppress the snf1 and snf4 mutations in yeast. By expression of an Arabidopsis cDNA library in yeast, heterologous multicopy snf4 suppressors were isolated. In addition to AKIN10 and AKIN11, the deficiency of yeast snf4 mutant to grown on non-fermentable carbon source was suppressed by Arabidopsis Myb30, CAAT-binding factor Hap3b, casein kinase I, zinc-finger factors AZF2 and ZAT10, as well as orthologs of hexose/UDP-hexose transporters, calmodulin, SMC1-cohesin and Snf4. Here we describe the characterization of AtSNF4, a functional Arabidopsis Snf4 ortholog, that interacts with yeast Snf1 and specifically binds to the C-terminal regulatory domain of Arabidopsis SnRKs AKIN10 and AKIN11.
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- T Kleinow
- Max-Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, D-50829 Köln, Germany
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Barizza E, Lo Schiavo F, Terzi M, Filippini F. Evidence suggesting protein tyrosine phosphorylation in plants depends on the developmental conditions. FEBS Lett 1999; 447:191-4. [PMID: 10214943 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00272-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Protein tyrosine phosphorylation plays a central role in a variety of signal transduction pathways regulating animal cell growth and differentiation, but its relevance and role in plants are controversial and still largely unknown. We report here that a large number of proteins from all plant subcellular fractions are recognized by recombinant, highly specific, anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation patterns vary among different adult plant tissues or somatic embryo stages and somatic embryogenesis is blocked in vivo by a cell-permeable tyrosyl-phosphorylation inhibitor, demonstrating the involvement of protein tyrosine phosphorylation in control of specific steps in plant development.
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- E Barizza
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Padua, Italy
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Frylinck L, Dubery IA. Protein kinase activities in ripening mango, Mangifera indica L., fruit tissue. I: Purification and characterization of a calcium-stimulated casein kinase-I. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1382:65-79. [PMID: 9507068 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(97)00142-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A Ca(2+)-stimulated protein kinase (PK-I), active with dephosphorylated casein as exogenous substrate, was purified from ripening mango fruit. The purification procedure involved 30-70% ammonium sulphate fractionation and sequential anion exchange-, affinity-, hydrophobic interaction- and gel filtration chromatography. PK-I was purified ca. 40-fold with an overall yield of < 1%. The final specific activity in the presence of 0.1 mM Ca2+ was 55 nmol min-1 mg-1. Analysis of the most highly purified preparations revealed a monomeric enzyme with an M(r) of 30.9 kDa and pI of 5.1. PK-I efficiently phosphorylated casein and phosvitin, but did not phosphorylate histone II-S, histone III-S, protamine sulphate or bovine serum albumin. PK-I activity was stimulated by micromolar concentrations of Ca2+ and was dependent on millimolar Mg2+ concentrations, which could not be substituted with Mn2+. PK-I activity was stimulated by, but was not dependent on Ca2+. Calmodulin and calmodulin inhibitors did not affect PK-I activity, but heparin and cAMP acted as inhibitors. The pH and temperature optima of the enzyme under standard reaction conditions were 6.5 and 35 degrees C, respectively. The kinetic reaction mechanism of PK-I was studied by using casein as substrate. Initial velocity and product inhibition studies with ADP as product inhibitor best fit an ordered bi-bi kinetic mechanism with the Mg(2+)-ATP complex binding first to the enzyme followed by binding of the protein substrate. The K(m)ATP and K(m)casein of PK-I were 9 microM and 0.26 mg ml-1, respectively. The KiADP of PK-I was 9 microM.
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- L Frylinck
- Department of Biochemistry, R.A.U.-University, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Lessard P, Kreis M, Thomas M. [Protein phosphatases and protein kinases in higher plants]. COMPTES RENDUS DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. SERIE III, SCIENCES DE LA VIE 1997; 320:675-88. [PMID: 9377173 DOI: 10.1016/s0764-4469(97)84815-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The recent gain in knowledge concerning enzymes involved in signal transduction pathways is a direct consequence of the considerable advances made in molecular biology. Protein kinases and protein phosphatases, the two major enzymes implicated in post-translational modifications, have been studied in particular. The number of characterized plant genes and/or cDNAs encoding these enzymes is increasing everyday. Since 1991, 26 genes and cDNAs coding for plant protein phosphatases have been isolated and characterized. The huge number of protein kinases (estimated at several thousands) makes it impossible to give an exhaustive list of the genes already identified, but a classification of these enzymes, based on phylogenetic criteria, allows us to appreciate the range of functions this protein family may play in plants.
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- P Lessard
- Laboratoire de biologie du développement des plantes, université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.
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Yang H, Saitou T, Komeda Y, Harada H, Kamada H. Arabidopsis thaliana ECP63 encoding a LEA protein is located in chromosome 4. Gene 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(96)00578-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pulgar V, Tapia C, Vignolo P, Santos J, Sunkel CE, Allende CC, Allende JE. The recombinant alpha isoform of protein kinase CK1 from Xenopus laevis can phosphorylate tyrosine in synthetic substrates. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 242:519-28. [PMID: 9022677 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0519r.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The cDNA coding for protein kinase CK1 alpha has been cloned from a Xenopus laevis cDNA library. The derived amino acid sequence of the protein contains 337 amino acids and has a calculated molecular mass of 38874 Da. The sequence is identical to that of the human CK1 alpha and to the bovine CK1 alpha, except that it is 12 amino acids longer than the latter protein. Southern blotting with a 264-bp probe demonstrates that four or more fragments are obtained upon digestion of genomic DNA with EcoR1 and Hind3, suggesting that X. laevis possesses a family of related CK1 genes. CK1 alpha was expressed in Escherichia coli as a glutathione transferase fusion protein (GT-CK1 alpha) and certain of its characteristics were determined. The recombinant GT-CK1 alpha fusion protein was found to have apparent Km values for ATP (12 microM), casein (1.5 mg/ml) and the specific peptide substrate RRKDLHDDEEDEAMSITA (180 microM) which are similar to those of the rat liver CK1 enzyme. The recombinant CK1 alpha activity is weakly inhibited by heparin, but strongly inhibited by poly(Glu80:Tyr20). This inhibition is competitive and shows an approximate K1 of 5 microM. CK1 alpha can phosphorylate the tyrosine residues of poly(Glu80:Tyr20) and the tyrosine residue in the synthetic peptide RRREEEYEEEE. This kinase preparation also autophosphorylates in serine, threonine and weakly in tyrosine.
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- V Pulgar
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile
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Tong CG, Kendrick RE, Roux SJ. Red light-induced appearance of phosphotyrosine-like epitopes on nuclear proteins from pea (Pisum sativum L.) plumules. Photochem Photobiol 1996; 64:863-6. [PMID: 8931387 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01848.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
As assayed by western blot analysis, red light induces the appearance of epitopes recognized by anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies in several pea nuclear proteins. The immunostaining is blocked by preadsorbing the antibodies with phosphotyrosine but not by preadsorbing them with phosphoserine or phosphothreonine. This light response is observed whether the red light irradiation is given to pea plumules or nuclei isolated from the plumules. The red-light-induced response seen in plumules is reversible by a subsequent far-red-light irradiation, indicating that the likely photoreceptor for this response may be phytochrome. By immunoblot analysis pea phytochrome A, but not phytochrome B, can be detected in proteins extracted from pea nuclear chromatin-matrix preparations. Phytochrome A and the protein bands immunostained by anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies can be solubilized from unirradiated pea chromatin by 0.3 M NaCl, but irradiating this preparation with red light does not induce the appearance of phosphotyrosine-like epitopes in any nuclear proteins. These results suggest that the association of phytochrome with purified pea nuclei is such that its conversion to the far-red light-absorbing form can induce a post-translational epitope change in nuclear proteins in vivo.
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Affiliation(s)
- C G Tong
- Department of Botany, University of Texas, Austin 78713, USA
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