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Sharma B. Modulation of phosphofructokinase (PFK) from Setaria cervi, a bovine filarial parasite, by different effectors and its interaction with some antifilarials. Parasit Vectors 2011; 4:227. [PMID: 22152593 PMCID: PMC3261128 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Phosphofructokinase (ATP: D-fructose-6-phosphate-1-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.11, PFK) is of primary importance in the regulation of glycolytic flux. This enzyme has been extensively studied from mammalian sources but relatively less attention has been paid towards its characterization from filarial parasites. Furthermore, the information about the response of filarial PFK towards the anthelmintics/antifilarial compounds is lacking. In view of these facts, PFK from Setaria cervi, a bovine filarial parasite having similarity with that of human filarial worms, was isolated, purified and characterized. RESULTS The S. cervi PFK was cytosolic in nature. The adult parasites (both female and male) contained more enzyme activity than the microfilarial (Mf) stage of S. cervi, which exhibited only 20% of total activity. The S. cervi PFK could be modulated by different nucleotides and the response of enzyme to these nucleotides was dependent on the concentrations of substrates (F-6-P and ATP). The enzyme possessed wide specificity towards utilization of the nucleotides as phosphate group donors. S. cervi PFK showed the presence of thiol group(s) at the active site of the enzyme, which could be protected from inhibitory action of para-chloromercuribenzoate (p-CMB) up to about 76% by pretreatment with cysteine or β-ME. The sensitivity of PFK from S. cervi towards antifilarials/anthelmintics was comparatively higher than that of mammalian PFK. With suramin, the Ki value for rat liver PFK was 40 times higher than PFK from S. cervi. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that the activity of filarial PFK may be modified by different effectors (such as nucleotides, thiol group reactants and anthelmintics) in filarial worms depending on the presence of varying concentrations of substrates (F-6-P and ATP) in the cellular milieu. It may possess thiol group at its active site responsible for catalysis. Relatively, 40 times higher sensitivity of filarial PFK towards suramin as compared to the analogous enzyme from the mammalian system indicates that this enzyme could be exploited as a potential chemotherapeutic target against filariasis.
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- Bechan Sharma
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP, India.
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Sugiura K, Pendola FL, Eppig JJ. Oocyte control of metabolic cooperativity between oocytes and companion granulosa cells: energy metabolism. Dev Biol 2005; 279:20-30. [PMID: 15708555 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2004] [Revised: 11/04/2004] [Accepted: 11/22/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Intercellular communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is essential for normal follicular differentiation and oocyte development. Subtraction hybridization was used to identify genes more highly expressed in cumulus cells than in mural granulosa cells of mouse antral follicles. This screen identified six genes involved in glycolysis: Eno1, Pkm2, Tpi, Aldoa, Ldh1, and Pfkp. When oocytes were microsurgically removed from cumulus cell-oocyte complexes, the isolated cumulus cells exhibited decreased expression levels of genes encoding glycolytic enzymes, glycolysis and activity of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. These decreases were prevented by culturing the cumulus cells with paracrine factors secreted by fully grown oocytes. Paracrine factors from fully grown oocytes exhibited greater ability than those from growing oocytes to promote expression of genes encoding glycolytic enzymes and glycolysis in the granulosa cells of preantral follicles. However, neither fully grown nor growing oocytes secreted paracrine factors affecting activity of the TCA cycle. These results indicate that oocytes regulate glycolysis and the TCA cycle in granulosa cells in a manner specific to the population of granulosa cells and to the stage of growth and development of the oocyte. Oocytes control glycolysis in granulosa cells by regulating expression levels of genes encoding glycolytic enzymes. Therefore, mouse oocytes control the intercellular metabolic cooperativity between cumulus cells and oocytes needed for energy production by granulosa cells and required for oocyte and follicular development.
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- Koji Sugiura
- The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
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Bruni P, Vandoolaeghe P, Rousseau GG, Hue L, Rider MH. Expression and regulation of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose- 2,6-bisphosphatase isozymes in white adipose tissue. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 259:756-61. [PMID: 10092861 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00104.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of this work was to identify the 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (PFK-2/FBPase-2) isozyme(s) present in white adipose tissue. Ion-exchange chromatography of PFK-2 from rat epididymal fat pads yielded an elution pattern compatible with the presence of both the L (liver) and M (muscle) isozymes. This was consistent with a study of the phosphorylation of the purified adipose tissue enzyme by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, by specific labelling of the preparation with [2-32P]fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and by reaction with antibodies. Characterization of the PFK-2/FBPase-2 mRNAs showed that mature adipocytes express the mRNA that codes for the L isozyme and the two mRNAs that code for the M isozyme. Preadipocytes expressed mRNA that codes for the M isozyme. Incubation of rat epididymal fat pads with adrenaline stimulated glycolysis but decreased fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations without significant inactivation of PFK-2. These results support previous findings showing that fructose 2,6-bisphosphate is not involved in the adrenaline-induced stimulation of glycolysis in white adipose tissue.
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- P Bruni
- Hormone and Metabolic Research Unit, Louvain University Medical School, Brussels, Belgium
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Klein RD, Olson ER, Favreau MA, Winterrowd CA, Hatzenbuhler NT, Shea MH, Nulf SC, Geary TG. Cloning of a cDNA encoding phosphofructokinase from Haemonchus contortus. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1991; 48:17-26. [PMID: 1838137 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(91)90160-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Phosphofructokinase (PFK), the key regulatory enzyme in glycolysis, has been cloned from the pathogenic parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus by functional complementation in Escherichia coli. An E. coli strain deleted for both PFK loci (strain DF1020) was transformed with plasmid DNA from a lambda ZAP II H. contortus cDNA library. Two out of 3 x 10(7) transformants were able to grow on minimal medium with mannitol as the sole carbon source. A plasmid, pPFK, containing a 2.7-kb insert, was isolated from one of these transformants and conferred on DF1020 the ability to grow on mannitol (the PFK phenotype). The complemented cells contain PFK enzyme activity, absent in the E. coli mutant, at levels considerably higher than in wild type E. coli. Sequence analysis of the 2.7-kb insert shows an open reading frame that predicts a 789-amino acid protein that has approximately 70% similarity to mammalian PFKs. The amino acid sequence around asp182, thought to be the catalytic site, is completely conserved from nematodes to mammals.
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- R D Klein
- Molecular Biology Research, Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, MI 49001
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Mahrenholz AM, Hefta SA, Mansour TE. Phosphofructokinase from Fasciola hepatica: sequence of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation site. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991; 288:463-7. [PMID: 1832841 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(91)90221-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We have reported previously that phosphofructokinase from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica is activated by phosphorylation with cAMP-dependent protein kinase, and that this event appears to be important in vivo for regulation of PFK (E. S. Kamemoto, L. Lan, and T. E. Mansour (1989) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 271, 553-559). Here, we report the amino acid sequence of the single tryptic phosphopeptide generated after phosphorylation of the purified enzyme with cAMP-dependent protein kinase and [gamma 32P]ATP. Through a combination of Edman microsequence analysis, fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy, and phosphoamino acid analysis, the sequence of the phosphorylated peptide was determined to be: R-S-T(P)-M-M-I-P-G-M-E-G-K. This sequence is not homologous to any previously determined phosphofructokinase phosphopeptides. Regulatory differences between the mammalian and parasite enzymes are discussed with particular emphasis on regulation by protein phosphorylation.
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- A M Mahrenholz
- Department of Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305
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Steffen V, Gordillo E, Castaño A, Cano J, Machado A. Age-dependent changes in the activity and isoenzymatic pattern of the phosphofructokinase in different areas of the central nervous systems. Neurosci Lett 1991; 125:15-8. [PMID: 1830378 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(91)90118-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Regional activity of phosphofructokinase enzyme and the amount of the isoenzyme C in 7 areas of young, adult and aged rats brain have been studied. The phosphofructokinase activity in substantia nigra decreased in adult and aged rats, but the maximum decrease was found in the septum of aged rats. There is a regional distribution of the isoenzyme C in the different areas studied. There was a general decrease in the amount of this isoenzyme in the areas studied with the exception of the hippocampus and the amygdala. The highest decrease was found in the septal area and in the diagonal band of Broca. These results are discussed in relation to the aging in different regions.
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- V Steffen
- Departamento de Bioquimica, Bromatologia y Toxicologia, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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Villamarin JA, Rodriguez-Torres AM, Ibarguren I, Ramos-Martinez JI. Phosphofructokinase in the mantle of the sea musselMytilus galloprovincialis Lmk. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402550304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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cGMP-stimulated protein kinase phosphorylates pyruvate kinase in an anoxia-tolerant marine mollusc. J Comp Physiol B 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00302597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- J Himms-Hagen
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Brooks SP, Storey KB. Purification of phosphofructokinase using transition-state analogue affinity chromatography. J Chromatogr A 1988; 455:291-6. [PMID: 2976771 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)82127-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A novel purification of phosphofructokinase has been achieved in a two step process using ion-exchange affinity chromatography and a transition-state analogue affinity column matrix. The procedure can be performed in one day, and gives a 25% yield of the starting material. The transition-state analogue chromatography is carried out using an ADP-agarose column in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate, magnesium ions and nitrate ions. In the presence of nitrate ion plus substrate, phosphofructokinase binds immobilized ADP while other proteins pass through the column. Previous studies with creatine kinase have shown that the nitrate ion mimics the planar phosphate in the transition state resulting in a complex which is stable under the relatively high ionic strength of the column buffer. This permits the elution of phosphofructokinase in a single peak of high specific activity. This column typically results in a 20-30 fold increase in specific activity with only a small loss of activity.
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- S P Brooks
- Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Gehnrich SC, Gekakis N, Sul HS. Liver (B-type) phosphofructokinase mRNA. Cloning, structure, and expression. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37848-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Rider MH, Kuntz DA, Hue L. Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and its phosphorothioate analogue. Comparison of their hydrolysis and action on glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes. Biochem J 1988; 253:597-601. [PMID: 2845925 PMCID: PMC1149339 DOI: 10.1042/bj2530597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Purified chicken liver 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase was phosphorylated either from fructose 2,6-bis[2-32P]phosphate or fructose 2-phosphoro[35S]thioate 6-phosphate. The turnover of the thiophosphorylated enzyme intermediate as well as the overall phosphatase reaction was four times faster than with authentic fructose 2,6-bisphosphate. Fructose 2-phosphorothioate 6-phosphate was 10-100-fold less potent than authentic fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in stimulating 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase and pyrophosphate:fructose 6-phosphate phosphotransferase, but about 10 times more potent in inhibiting fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase. The analogue was twice as effective as authentic fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in stimulating pyruvate kinase from trypanosomes.
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- M H Rider
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Louvain University Medical School, Brussels, Belgium
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Phosphofructokinase from Dirofilaria immitis. Stimulation of activity by phosphorylation with cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)69096-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Two systems in vitro that show insulin-stimulated serine kinase activity towards the insulin receptor. Biochem J 1988; 250:509-19. [PMID: 2965579 PMCID: PMC1148885 DOI: 10.1042/bj2500509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Two systems in vitro are described that show insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of the insulin receptor on serine residues. In the first system, insulin receptor was purified partially from Fao rat hepatoma cells by direct solubilization of the cells in Triton X-100 and chromatography on wheat-germ-agglutinin-agarose. Phosphorylation of these preparations with [gamma-32P]ATP in the presence or absence of insulin resulted in 32P incorporation exclusively into phosphotyrosine residues. Serine kinase activity towards the insulin receptor was reconstituted by adding extracts of Fao cells. Prior exposure of the cells to insulin stimulated serine kinase activity towards the insulin receptor in extracts 7.2-fold. A receptor serine kinase activity enhanced by treatment of cells with cyclic AMP analogues was also retained in the reconstituted system. In the second system, insulin receptor and insulin-sensitive serine kinase activity towards the insulin receptor were co-purified from human placenta. The protocol involved preparation of membranes, before solubilization and chromatography on wheat-germ-agglutinin-agarose, by using gentle procedures designed not to disrupt a potentially labile association between the insulin receptor and the serine kinase. Serine kinase activity in these preparations towards the insulin receptor was stimulated up to 10-fold by insulin, and the stoicheiometry of serine phosphorylation was estimated to be approx 0.8 mol/mol of insulin receptor for phosphorylations performed in the presence of insulin. Thus a preparation of insulin receptor is described for the first time that is phosphorylated to high stoicheiometry on serine in an insulin-dependent manner. Conditions that facilitate recovery and assay of serine kinase activity are defined and discussed. These systems provide a basis for characterizing the nature of the insulin-sensitive serine kinase that phosphorylates the insulin receptor, and defining its role in insulin action and control of receptor function.
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Hue L, Rider MH. Role of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in the control of glycolysis in mammalian tissues. Biochem J 1987; 245:313-24. [PMID: 2822019 PMCID: PMC1148124 DOI: 10.1042/bj2450313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- L Hue
- International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, UCL 7529, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Kulkarni G, Rao GS, Srinivasan NG, Hofer HW, Yuan PM, Harris BG. Ascaris suum phosphofructokinase. Phosphorylation by protein kinase and sequence of the phosphopeptide. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)75881-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Sale EM, White MF, Kahn CR. Phosphorylation of glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes by the insulin receptor kinase. J Cell Biochem 1987; 33:15-26. [PMID: 2434517 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240330103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Various glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes were tested as substrates for the insulin receptor kinase. Phosphofructokinase and phosphoglycerate mutase were found to be the best substrates. Phosphorylation of these enzymes was rapid, stimulated 2- to 6-fold by 10(-7) M insulin and occurred exclusively on tyrosine residues. Enolase, fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase, lactate dehydrogenases in decreasing order, were also subject to insulin-stimulated phosphorylation but to a smaller extent than that for phosphofructokinase or phosphoglycerate mutase. The phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase was studied most extensively since phosphofructokinase is known to catalyze a rate-limiting step in glycolysis. The apparent Km of the insulin receptor for phosphofructokinase was 0.1 microM, which is within the physiologic range of concentration of this enzyme in most cells. Tyrosine phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase paralleled autophosphorylation of the beta-subunit of the insulin receptor with respect to time course, insulin dose response (half maximal effect between 10(-9) and 10(-8) M insulin), and cation requirement (Mn2+ greater than Mg2+ much greater than Ca2+). Further study will be required to determine whether the tyrosine phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase plays a role in insulin-stimulated increases in glycolytic flux.
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Sale EM, Denton RM. Beta-adrenergic agents increase the phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase in isolated rat epididymal white adipose tissue. Biochem J 1985; 232:905-10. [PMID: 2936336 PMCID: PMC1152968 DOI: 10.1042/bj2320905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Pieces of rat epididymal adipose tissue were incubated in medium containing [32P]phosphate for 2 h to achieve steady-state labelling of intracellular phosphoproteins and then with or without hormones for a further 15 min. Phosphofructokinase was rapidly isolated from the tissue by use of either Blue Dextran-Sepharose chromatography or immunoprecipitation with antisera raised against phosphofructokinase purified from rat interscapular brown adipose tissue. Similar extents of incorporation of 32P into phosphofructokinase were measured by both techniques. Exposure of the tissue to adrenaline or the beta-agonist isoprenaline increased phosphorylation by about 5-fold (to about 1.4 mol of phosphate/mol of enzyme tetramer). No change in phosphorylation was detected with the alpha-agonist phenylephrine, but exposure to insulin resulted in an approx. 2-fold increase. The increased phosphorylation observed with isoprenaline was found to be associated with a decrease in the apparent Ka for fructose 2,6-bisphosphate similar to that observed on phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase purified from rat epididymal white adipose tissue with the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. These results support the view [Sale & Denton (1985) Biochem. J. 232, 897-904] that an increase in cyclic AMP in adipose tissue may result in an increase in glycolysis through the phosphorylation of phosphofructokinase by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
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