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Koirala R, Fongsaran C, Poston T, Rogge M, Rogers B, Thune R, Dubytska L. Edwardsiella ictaluri T3SS effector EseN is a phosphothreonine lyase that inactivates ERK1/2, p38, JNK, and PDK1 and modulates cell death in infected macrophages. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0300323. [PMID: 37796003 PMCID: PMC10714789 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03003-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE This work has global significance in the catfish industry, which provides food for increasing global populations. E. ictaluri is a leading cause of disease loss, and EseN is an important player in E. ictaluri virulence. The E. ictaluri T3SS effector EseN plays an essential role in establishing infection, but the specific role EseN plays is not well characterized. EseN belongs to a family of phosphothreonine lyase effectors that specifically target host mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways important in regulating host responses to infection. No phosphothreonine lyase equivalents are known in eukaryotes, making this family of effectors an attractive target for indirect narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Targeting of major vault protein and PDK1 kinase by EseN has not been reported in EseN homologs in other pathogens and may indicate unique functions of E. ictaluri EseN. EseN targeting of PDK1 is particularly interesting in that it is linked to an extraordinarily diverse group of cellular functions.
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- Ranjan Koirala
- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Southern University and A & M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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Pandey AK, Ganguly HK, Sinha SK, Daniels KE, Yap GPA, Patel S, Zondlo NJ. An Inherent Difference between Serine and Threonine Phosphorylation: Phosphothreonine Strongly Prefers a Highly Ordered, Compact, Cyclic Conformation. ACS Chem Biol 2023; 18:1938-1958. [PMID: 37595155 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/20/2023]
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Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins by kinases and phosphatases are central to cellular responses and function. The structural effects of serine and threonine phosphorylation were examined in peptides and in proteins, by circular dichroism, NMR spectroscopy, bioinformatics analysis of the PDB, small-molecule X-ray crystallography, and computational investigations. Phosphorylation of both serine and threonine residues induces substantial conformational restriction in their physiologically more important dianionic forms. Threonine exhibits a particularly strong disorder-to-order transition upon phosphorylation, with dianionic phosphothreonine preferentially adopting a cyclic conformation with restricted ϕ (ϕ ∼ -60°) stabilized by three noncovalent interactions: a strong intraresidue phosphate-amide hydrogen bond, an n → π* interaction between consecutive carbonyls, and an n → σ* interaction between the phosphate Oγ lone pair and the antibonding orbital of C-Hβ that restricts the χ2 side-chain conformation. Proline is unique among the canonical amino acids for its covalent cyclization on the backbone. Phosphothreonine can mimic proline's backbone cyclization via noncovalent interactions. The preferred torsions of dianionic phosphothreonine are ϕ,ψ = polyproline II helix > α-helix (ϕ ∼ -60°); χ1 = g-; χ2 ∼ +115° (eclipsed C-H/O-P bonds). This structural signature is observed in diverse proteins, including in the activation loops of protein kinases and in protein-protein interactions. In total, these results suggest a structural basis for the differential use and evolution of threonine versus serine phosphorylation sites in proteins, with serine phosphorylation typically inducing smaller, rheostat-like changes, versus threonine phosphorylation promoting larger, step function-like switches, in proteins.
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- Anil K Pandey
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar 140001, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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Sladeček S, Radaszkiewicz KA, Bőhmová M, Gybeľ T, Radaszkiewicz TW, Pacherník J. Dual specificity phosphatase 7 drives the formation of cardiac mesoderm in mouse embryonic stem cells. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0275860. [PMID: 36227898 PMCID: PMC9560500 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dual specificity phosphatase 7 (DUSP7) is a protein belonging to a broad group of phosphatases that can dephosphorylate phosphoserine/phosphothreonine as well as phosphotyrosine residues within the same substrate. DUSP7 has been linked to the negative regulation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK), and in particular to the regulation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2). MAPKs play an important role in embryonic development, where their duration, magnitude, and spatiotemporal activity must be strictly controlled by other proteins, among others by DUSPs. In this study, we focused on the effect of DUSP7 depletion on the in vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. We showed that even though DUSP7 knock-out ES cells do retain some of their basic characteristics, when it comes to differentiation, they preferentially differentiate towards neural cells, while the formation of early cardiac mesoderm is repressed. Therefore, our data indicate that DUSP7 is necessary for the correct formation of neuroectoderm and cardiac mesoderm during the in vitro differentiation of ES cells.
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- Stanislava Sladeček
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Dwivedi P, Muench DE, Wagner M, Azam M, Grimes HL, Greis KD. Phospho serine and threonine analysis of normal and mutated granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptors. Sci Data 2019; 6:21. [PMID: 30967555 PMCID: PMC6480977 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0015-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor (G-CSFR) plays an important role in the production of neutrophil granulocytes. Mutated G-CSFRs have been directly associated with two distinct malignant phenotypes in patients, e.g. acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL). However, the signaling mechanism of the mutated G-CSFRs is not well understood. Here, we present a comprehensive SILAC-based quantitative phosphoserine and phosphothreonine dataset of the normal and mutated G-CSFRs signaling using the BaF3 cell-line-based in vitro model system. High pH reversed phase concatenation and Titanium Dioxide Spin Tip column were utilized to increase the dynamic range and detection of the phosphoproteome of G-CSFRs. The dataset was further analyzed using several computational tools to validate the quality of the dataset. Overall, this dataset is the first global phosphoproteomics analysis of both normal and disease-associated-mutant G-CSFRs. We anticipate that this dataset will have a strong potential to decipher the phospho-signaling differences between the normal and malignant G-CSFR biology with therapeutic implications. The phosphoproteomic dataset is available via the PRIDE partner repository.
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- Pankaj Dwivedi
- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267, USA
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- Division of Immunobiology and Center for Systems Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Immunobiology and Center for Systems Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267, USA.
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Dubytska LP, Thune RL. Edwardsiella ictaluri type III secretion system (T3SS) effector EseN is a phosphothreonine lyase that inactivates ERK1/2. Dis Aquat Organ 2018; 130:117-129. [PMID: 30198487 DOI: 10.3354/dao03255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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EseN is a type III secretion system (T3SS) effector that is encoded on the Edwardsiella ictaluri chromosome and is homologous to a family of T3SS effector proteins with phosphothreonine lyase (PTL) activity, including OspF from Shigella and SpvC from Salmonella. A yeast-2-hybrid system was used to identify the major vault protein (MVP) as a specific host-cell binding partner for EseN, and the proximity ligation assay (PLA) confirmed the interaction. Similar to other pathogens, E. ictaluri invasion activates extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) early in the infection, which are subsequently inactivated by EseN. Structurally, EseN contains a highly conserved docking motif that is required for specific binding to mitogen-activated protein kinases, such as ERK1/2, and a motif that is essential for PTL activity. Immunoblotting and immunofluorescence analyses indicate that EseN inactivates ERK1/2 by dephosphorylation in vivo in the head kidney of infected fish and ex vivo in head kidney derived macrophages. Interaction of EseN with phosphorylated ERK1/2 (pERK1/2) was also confirmed using PLA, suggesting that MVP serves as a signaling scaffold for ERK1/2 and EseN. Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus infected with E. ictaluri strains lacking the eseN gene had reduced numbers of E. ictaluri in the tissues following infection and reduced mortality compared to fish infected with the wild-type. Our results indicate that eseN encodes a PTL domain that interacts with MVP as a possible scaffold protein and inactivates pERK1/2 to ERK1/2, resulting in increased proliferation of E. ictaluri and, ultimately, death of the host.
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- Lidiya P Dubytska
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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Kong RPW, Quan Q, Hao Q, Lai CK, Siu CK, Chu IK. Formation and dissociation of phosphorylated peptide radical cations. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2012; 23:2094-2101. [PMID: 22968907 PMCID: PMC3514703 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0479-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2012] [Revised: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this study, we generated phosphoserine- and phosphothreonine-containing peptide radical cations through low-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the ternary metal-ligand phosphorylated peptide complexes [Cu(II)(terpy)(p)M](·2+) and [Co(III)(salen)(p)M](·+) [(p)M: phosphorylated angiotensin III derivative; terpy: 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine; salen: N,N'-ethylenebis(salicylideneiminato)]. Subsequent CID of the phosphorylated peptide radical cations ((p)M(·+)) revealed fascinating gas-phase radical chemistry, yielding (1) charge-directed b- and y-type product ions, (2) radical-driven product ions through cleavages of peptide backbones and side chains, and (3) different degrees of formation of [M - H(3)PO(4)](·+) species through phosphate ester bond cleavage. The CID spectra of the (p)M(·+) species and their non-phosphorylated analogues featured fragment ions of similar sequence, suggesting that the phosphoryl group did not play a significant role in the fragmentation of the peptide backbone or side chain. The extent of neutral H(3)PO(4) loss was influenced by the peptide sequence and the initial sites of the charge and radical. A preliminary density functional theory study, at the B3LYP 6-311++G(d,p) level of theory, of the neutral loss of H(3)PO(4) from a prototypical model--N-acetylphosphorylserine methylamide--revealed several factors governing the elimination of neutral phosphoryl groups through charge- and radical-induced mechanisms.
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- Ricky P. W. Kong
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Mattsson N, Zetterberg H, Hansson O, Andreasen N, Parnetti L, Jonsson M, Herukka SK, van der Flier WM, Blankenstein MA, Ewers M, Rich K, Kaiser E, Verbeek M, Tsolaki M, Mulugeta E, Rosén E, Aarsland D, Visser PJ, Schröder J, Marcusson J, de Leon M, Hampel H, Scheltens P, Pirttilä T, Wallin A, Jönhagen ME, Minthon L, Winblad B, Blennow K. CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment. JAMA 2009; 302:385-93. [PMID: 19622817 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 729] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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CONTEXT Small single-center studies have shown that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers may be useful to identify incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but large-scale multicenter studies have not been conducted. OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of CSF beta-amyloid(1-42) (Abeta42), total tau protein (T-tau), and tau phosphorylated at position threonine 181 (P-tau) for predicting incipient AD in patients with MCI. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS The study had 2 parts: a cross-sectional study involving patients with AD and controls to identify cut points, followed by a prospective cohort study involving patients with MCI, conducted 1990-2007. A total of 750 individuals with MCI, 529 with AD, and 304 controls were recruited by 12 centers in Europe and the United States. Individuals with MCI were followed up for at least 2 years or until symptoms had progressed to clinical dementia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative likelihood ratios (LRs) of CSF Abeta42, T-tau, and P-tau for identifying incipient AD. RESULTS During follow-up, 271 participants with MCI were diagnosed with AD and 59 with other dementias. The Abeta42 assay in particular had considerable intersite variability. Patients who developed AD had lower median Abeta42 (356; range, 96-1075 ng/L) and higher P-tau (81; range, 15-183 ng/L) and T-tau (582; range, 83-2174 ng/L) levels than MCI patients who did not develop AD during follow-up (579; range, 121-1420 ng/L for Abeta42; 53; range, 15-163 ng/L for P-tau; and 294; range, 31-2483 ng/L for T-tau, P < .001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.78 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.75-0.82) for Abeta42, 0.76 (95% CI, 0.72-0.80) for P-tau, and 0.79 (95% CI, 0.76-0.83) for T-tau. Cut-offs with sensitivity set to 85% were defined in the AD and control groups and tested in the MCI group, where the combination of Abeta42/P-tau ratio and T-tau identified incipient AD with a sensitivity of 83% (95% CI, 78%-88%), specificity 72% (95% CI, 68%-76%), positive LR, 3.0 (95% CI, 2.5-3.4), and negative LR, 0.24 (95% CI, 0.21-0.28). The positive predictive value was 62% and the negative predictive value was 88%. CONCLUSIONS This multicenter study found that CSF Abeta42, T-tau, and P-tau identify incipient AD with good accuracy, but less accurately than reported from single-center studies. Intersite assay variability highlights a need for standardization of analytical techniques and clinical procedures.
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- Niklas Mattsson
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neurochemistry and Psychiatry, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate a new biochemical surface modification technique for titanium implants using phospho-amino acid. Pure titanium disks were pretreated with 10 N HCl and ultrapure water at room temperature for 30 minutes respectively. Then these disks were modified with either L-threonine (Thr) or O-phospho-L-threonine (P-Thr) at 37 degrees C for 12 hours. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) chemically analyzed the modified surfaces. It was revealed that the N 1s peak which originated from Thr was not detected in the wide-scan spectrum of Thr-modified surface, whereas three peaks of N 1s, P 2s, and P 2p which originated from P-Thr were detected in the wide-scan spectrum of P-Thr-modified surface. Moreover, the P 2p peak of P-Thr which reacted with the surface significantly shifted to a lower binding energy (p < 0.05). Based on the results of this study, it was concluded that P-Thr chemically bonded to the titanium surface treated with HCl.
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- Yasuhiko Abe
- Department of Advanced Prosthodontics, Division of Cervico-Gnathostomatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan.
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Kummer A, Pulford BE, Ishii DN, Seigel GM. Des(1-3)IGF-1 treatment normalizes type 1 IGF receptor and phospho-Akt (Thr 308) immunoreactivity in predegenerative retina of diabetic rats. Int J Exp Diabesity Res 2003; 4:45-57. [PMID: 12745670 PMCID: PMC2480499 DOI: 10.1080/15438600303729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Little is known about interventions that may prevent predegenerative changes in the diabetic retina. This study tested the hypothesis that immediate, systemic treatment with an insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 analog can prevent abnormal accumulations of type 1 IGF receptor, and phospho-Akt (Thr 308) immunoreactivity in predegenerative retinas of streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats. Type 1 IGF receptor immunoreactivity increased approximately 3-fold in both inner nuclear layer (INL) and ganglion cell layer (GCL) in retinas from STZ rats versus nondiabetic controls. Phospho-Akt (Thr 308) immunoreactivity increased 5-fold in GCL and 8-fold in INL of STZ rat retinas. In all cases, immunoreactive cells were significantly reduced in STZ des(1-3)IGF-1-treated versus STZ rats. Preliminary results suggested that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels may also be reduced. Hyperglycemia/failure of weight gain in diabetic rats continued despite systemic des(1-3)IGF-1. These data show that an IGF-1 analog can prevent early retinal biochemical abnormalities implicated in the progression of diabetic retinopathy, despite ongoing hyperglycemia.
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- A. Kummer
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryRochesterNew YorkUSA
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- Colorado State UniversityFort CollinsColoradoUSA
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- University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryRochesterNew YorkUSA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Physiology and BiophysicsUniversity at Buffalothe State University of New York3435 Main Street, Sherman 124BuffaloNY14214USA
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Donella-Deana A, Boschetti M, Pinna LA. Monitoring of PP2A and PP2C by phosphothreonyl peptide substrates. Methods Enzymol 2003; 366:3-17. [PMID: 14674235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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- Arianna Donella-Deana
- Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, University of Padova, Viale G. Colombo 3, Padova 35121, Italy
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Decorin, a small multifunctional proteoglycan, has been shown to be causally involved in the formation of capillary-like structures and a decrease in apoptosis. Here we investigated signal transduction pathways mediating effects of decorin on endothelial cells (ECs). Addition of decorin led to a fourfold increase in phosphorylation of Akt/protein kinase B on Thr307 and a l.4-fold increase on Ser473 after 10 min, but this phosphorylation could not be blocked by preincubation with Ly29400 (10 micro M). Six hours after the addition of decorin, the synthesis of p21 and p27, two inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases, started and increased up to 18 h, while synthesis of cyclin A peaked at 12 h and decreased after 24 h below base level. Induction of dominan-negative Akt by a replication-deficient adenovirus blocked p21 and cyclin A synthesis, but had no effect on p27. Dominant-negative Akt also blocked the antiapoptotic effect of decorin on ECs, but induction of dominant-positive Akt could not rescue the cells from apoptosis. Thus, the matrix proteoglycan decorin is a signaling molecule in ECs that affects cell survival by Akt-dependent and -independent pathways.
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- E Schönherr
- Institute of Physiological Chemistry Pathobiochemistry, University of Münster, D-48149 Munster, Germany.
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Protein interaction domain families that modulate the formation of macromolecular complexes recognize specific sequence or structural motifs. For instance SH3 and WW domains bind to polyproline peptides while SH2 and FHA domains bind to peptides phosphorylated in Tyr and Thr respectively. Within each family, variations in the chemical characteristics of the domain binding pocket modulate a finer peptide recognition specificity and, as a consequence, determine the selection of functional protein partners in vivo. In the proteomic era there is the need for reliable inference methods to help restricting the sequence space of the putative targets to be confirmed experimentally by more laborious experimental approaches. Here we will review the published data about the peptide recognition specificity of the SH3 domain family and we will propose a classification of SH3 domains into eight classes. Finally, we will discuss whether the available information is sufficient to infer the recognition specificity of any uncharacterized SH3 domain.
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- Gianni Cesareni
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy.
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Liu F, Ma XH, Ule J, Bibb JA, Nishi A, DeMaggio AJ, Yan Z, Nairn AC, Greengard P. Regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 and casein kinase 1 by metabotropic glutamate receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:11062-8. [PMID: 11572969 PMCID: PMC58683 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.191353898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a multifunctional neuronal protein kinase that is required for neurite outgrowth and cortical lamination and that plays an important role in dopaminergic signaling in the neostriatum through phosphorylation of Thr-75 of DARPP-32 (dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein, molecular mass 32 kDa). Casein kinase 1 (CK1) has been implicated in a variety of cellular functions such as DNA repair, circadian rhythm, and intracellular trafficking. In the neostriatum, CK1 has been found to phosphorylate Ser-137 of DARPP-32. However, first messengers for the regulation of Cdk5 or CK1 have remained unknown. Here we report that both Cdk5 and CK1 are regulated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) in neostriatal neurons. (S)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG), an agonist for group I mGluRs, increased Cdk5 and CK1 activities in neostriatal slices, leading to the enhanced phosphorylation of Thr-75 and Ser-137 of DARPP-32, respectively. The effect of DHPG on Thr-75, but not on Ser-137, was blocked by a Cdk5-specific inhibitor, butyrolactone. In contrast, the effects of DHPG on both Thr-75 and Ser-137 were blocked by CK1-7 and IC261, specific inhibitors of CK1, suggesting that activation of Cdk5 by mGluRs requires CK1 activity. In support of this possibility, the DHPG-induced increase in Cdk5 activity, measured in extracts of neostriatal slices, was abolished by CK1-7 and IC261. Treatment of acutely dissociated neurons with DHPG enhanced voltage-dependent Ca(2+) currents. This enhancement was eliminated by either butyrolactone or CK1-7 and was absent in DARPP-32 knockout mice. Together these results indicate that a CK1-Cdk5-DARPP-32 cascade may be involved in the regulation by mGluR agonists of Ca(2+) channels.
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Yu CF, Roshan B, Liu ZX, Cantley LG. ERK regulates the hepatocyte growth factor-mediated interaction of Gab1 and the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:32552-8. [PMID: 11445578 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m104493200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Based on our previous observations that active ERK associates with and phosphorylates Gab1 in response to HGF, and the prediction that the ERK phosphorylation site is adjacent to one of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) SH2 binding motifs, we examined the possibility that ERK phosphorylation can regulate the Gab1/PI3K association. The HGF-mediated association of Gab1 with either full-length GST-p85 or its isolated N- or C-terminal SH2 domains was inhibited by approximately 50% in the setting of ERK inhibition, a result confirmed by co-immunoprecipitation of the native proteins. A 14-amino acid peptide encoding (472)YVPMTP(477) (one of the major p85 binding sites in Gab1 and the predicted ERK phosphorylation site) was synthesized with either phosphotyrosine alone (pY), or phosphotyrosine + phosphothreonine (pYT). In both pull-down assays and competition assays, pYT demonstrated a higher affinity for p85 than did pY alone. Finally, examination of the phosphorylation state of Akt after HGF stimulation revealed that ERK inhibition resulted in a decrease in Akt activation at both 5 and 10 min. These results suggest that activated ERK can phosphorylate Gab1 in response to HGF stimulation and thereby potentiate the Gab1/PI3K association and subsequent PI3K activation.
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- C F Yu
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8062, USA.
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El Kouhen R, Burd AL, Erickson-Herbrandson LJ, Chang CY, Law PY, Loh HH. Phosphorylation of Ser363, Thr370, and Ser375 residues within the carboxyl tail differentially regulates mu-opioid receptor internalization. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:12774-80. [PMID: 11278523 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m009571200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Prolonged activation of opioid receptors leads to their phosphorylation, desensitization, internalization, and down-regulation. To elucidate the relationship between mu-opioid receptor (MOR) phosphorylation and the regulation of receptor activity, a series of receptor mutants was constructed in which the 12 Ser/Thr residues of the COOH-terminal portion of the receptor were substituted to Ala, either individually or in combination. All these mutant constructs were stably expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and exhibited similar expression levels and ligand binding properties. Among those 12 Ser/Thr residues, Ser(363), Thr(370), and Ser(375) have been identified as phosphorylation sites. In the absence of the agonist, a basal phosphorylation of Ser(363) and Thr(370) was observed, whereas [d-Ala(2),Me-Phe(4),Gly(5)-ol]enkephalin (DAMGO)-induced receptor phosphorylation occurs at Thr(370) and Ser(375) residues. Furthermore, the role of these phosphorylation sites in regulating the internalization of MOR was investigated. The mutation of Ser(375) to Ala reduced the rate and extent of receptor internalization, whereas mutation of Ser(363) and Thr(370) to Ala accelerated MOR internalization kinetics. The present data show that the basal phosphorylation of MOR could play a role in modulating agonist-induced receptor internalization kinetics. Furthermore, even though mu-receptors and delta-opioid receptors have the same motif encompassing agonist-induced phosphorylation sites, the different agonist-induced internalization properties controlled by these sites suggest differential cellular regulation of these two receptor subtypes.
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- R El Kouhen
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Otaka A, Mitsuyama E, Kinoshita T, Tamamura H, Fujii N. Stereoselective synthesis of CF(2)-substituted phosphothreonine mimetics and their incorporation into peptides using newly developed deprotection procedures. J Org Chem 2000; 65:4888-99. [PMID: 10956468 DOI: 10.1021/jo000169v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stereoselective syntheses of all four stereoisomers of CF(2)-substituted nonhydrolyzable phosphothreonine derivatives (33, 39, and their enantiomers) and their incorporation into peptides are described herein. Key to the synthesis of these amino acids was construction of secondary phosphate-mimicking difluoromethylphosphonate units along with generation of two stereocenters. The former was achieved using a Cu(I)-mediated cross-coupling reaction of BrZnCF(2)P(O)(OEt)(2) (8) and beta-iodo-alpha,beta-unsaturated ester 12, with stereochemistry of both alpha- and beta-stereocenters being established using bornane-10,2-sultam as a chiral auxiliary. Diastereoselective hydrogenation of a chiral alpha,beta-unsaturated acylsultam (for the beta-center) (e.g., 16a) and subsequent stereoselective bromination (for the alpha-center of the threo derivative) or amination (for the alpha-center of erythro (allo) derivative) were utilized. Transesterification of the bromide to the benzyl ester followed by azide displacement of the halogen, then reduction of the resulting azide, followed by Boc-protection and finally removal of the benzyl group, afforded protected both L- and D-phosphothreonine mimetics (39 and its enantiomer). On the other hand, protected both L- and D-allo-phosphothreonine mimetics (33 and its enantiomer) were synthesized via transesterification of the above-mentioned amination product, followed by hydrogenolytic removal of the benzyl group. Key to utilization of these amino acid analogues in peptide synthesis was removal of ethyl protection from the difluoromethylphosphonate moiety. A two-step deprotection methodology, consisting of a combination of a first-step reagent [0.3 M BSTFA-TBAI in CH(2)Cl(2), BF(3).Et(2)O] followed by a second-step reagent [1 M TMSOTf-thioanisole in TFA, m-cresol, EDT] was developed for use in solid-phase protocols. A 12-residue Cdc (cell division cycle) 2-peptide 41, possessing two nonhydrolyzable phosphoamino acid mimetics (F(2)Pmab 6 and F(2)Pmp 4), was subjected to this deprotection procedure and was obtained in 25% yield based on the protected resin. The present synthetic method affords nonhydrolyzable phosphoamino acid mimetics-containing peptides in high yield without accompanying side reactions.
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- A Otaka
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cdc37 is required for the productive formation of Cdc28-cyclin complexes. The cdc37-1 mutant arrests at Start with low levels of Cdc28 protein, which is predominantly unphosphorylated at Thr169, fails to bind cyclin, and has little protein kinase activity. We show here that Cdc28 and not cyclin is specifically defective in the cdc37-1 mutant and that Cdc37 likely does not act as an assembly factor for Cdc28-cyclin complex formation. We have also found that the levels and activity of the protein kinase Cak1 are significantly reduced in the cdc37-1 mutant. Pulse-chase analysis indicates that Cdc28 and Cak1 proteins are both destabilized when Cdc37 function is absent during but not after translation. In addition, Cdc37 promotes the production of Cak1, but not that of Cdc28, when coexpressed in insect cells. We conclude that budding yeast Cdc37, like its higher eukaryotic homologs, promotes the physical integrity of multiple protein kinases, perhaps by virtue of a cotranslational role in protein folding.
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- A Farrell
- Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0444, USA
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PhosphoBase contains information about phosphorylated residues in proteins and data about peptide phosphorylation by a variety of protein kinases. The data are collected from literature and compiled into a common format. The current release of PhosphoBase (October 1998, version 2.0) comprises 414 phosphoprotein entries covering 1052 phosphorylatable serine, threonine and tyrosine residues. The kinetic data from peptide phosphorylation assays for approximately 330 oligopeptides is also included. The database entries are cross-referenced to the corresponding records in the Swiss-Prot protein database and literature references are linked to MedLine records. PhosphoBase is available via the WWW at http://www.cbs.dtu. dk/databases/PhosphoBase/
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- A Kreegipuu
- Institute of Chemical Physics, University of Tartu, 2 Jakobi St., EE2400 Tartu, Estonia
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Seger D, Gechtman Z, Shaltiel S. Phosphorylation of vitronectin by casein kinase II. Identification of the sites and their promotion of cell adhesion and spreading. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:24805-13. [PMID: 9733784 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.38.24805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The cell adhesion protein vitronectin (Vn) was previously shown to be the major target in human blood for an extracellular protein kinase A, which is released from platelets upon their physiological stimulation with thrombin and also prevails as an ectoenzyme in several other types of blood cells. Because plasma Vn was shown to have only one protein kinase A phosphorylation site (Ser378) but to contain approximately 3 mol of covalently bound phosphate, and because human serum and blood cells were shown to contain also a casein kinase II (CKII) on their surface, we studied the phosphorylation of Vn by CKII attempting to find out whether such phosphorylation modulates Vn function, an acid test for its having a physiological relevance. Here we show (i) that the CKII phosphorylation of Vn has a Km of 0.5-2 microM (lower than the Vn concentration in blood, 3-6 microM), (ii) that it is targeted to Thr50 and Thr57, which are vicinal to the RGD site of Vn, and (iii) that the phosphorylation of Thr57 facilitates the phosphorylation of Thr50. The maximal stoichiometry of the CKII phosphorylation of plasma Vn was found to be low, which, in principle, could be due to its partial prephosphorylation in vivo. However, for the detection of a functional modulation, we needed a comparison between a fully phosphorylated Vn (at Thr57 and Thr50) and a nonphosphorylated Vn. Therefore, we expressed Vn in a baculovirus system and show (i) that the CKII phosphorylation of wt-Vn enhances the adhesion of bovine aorta endothelial cells; (ii) that the double mutant T50E/T57E (in which the neutral Thr residues are replaced by the negatively charged Glu residues considered analogs of Thr-P) has a significantly enhanced capacity to promote cell adhesion and to accelerate cell spreading when compared with either wild-type Vn or to the neutral T50A/T57A mutant; and (iii) that, at least in the case of bovine aorta endothelial cells, the T50E/T57E mutant exhibits an enhanced adhesion, which seems to be due to an increased affinity toward the alphav beta3 Vn receptors.
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- D Seger
- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
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Mattiazzi A, Vittone L, Mundiña-Weilenmann C, Said M. Phosphorylation of the Thr17 residue of phospholamban. New insights into the physiological role of the CaMK-II pathway of phospholamban phosphorylation. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1998; 853:280-3. [PMID: 10603959 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb08279.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- A Mattiazzi
- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
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Phosphorylation of threonine destabilizes the leucine zipper of a bZIP protein by 4.6 kcal mol-1 dimer-1, which reduces DNA binding 100-fold. This decrease in stability reflects the low alpha-helix forming propensity of a phosphorylated threonine.
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Hawtrey AO, Van Jaarsveld PP, Ariatti M. Are phosphorylated tyrosine residues of certain receptors involved in inducing transitory covalent protein cross-linking? Med Hypotheses 1997; 48:77-81. [PMID: 9049993 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-9877(97)90027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Following ligand binding a number of cell-surface receptors become phosphorylated at tyrosine residues of their cytosolic domains. These phosphorylations are associated with initiation of a signalling programme involving a sequence of tyrosine-phosphorylated protein-protein interactions. In the recognition process between phosphorylated proteins, electrostatic interactions between negatively charged phosphorylated tyrosines, serine and threonine residues and positively charged lysines play an important role as well as hydrophobic and H-bonding reactions. We suggest in this paper that the fairly high-energy phosphate bond of certain protein phosphorylated tyrosines are possibly involved in inducing transitory protein cross-linking reactions. Through a process involving transfer of an activated phosphate of phosphorylated tyrosine to a side-chain carboxyl group of the receptor or next protein of the signalling sequence, an acyl phosphate is formed. This then acylates a hydroxyl group on a serine, threonine or tyrosine residue of the protein not carrying the carboxyl phosphate to give an ester linkage, thus cross-linking the two proteins of the signalling pathway. The covalent ester linkage is labile to hydrolysis and depending on the protein-protein molecular environment it might have a finite half-life. On hydrolysis, the transitory covalent linkage is broken with separation of the proteins. It is suggested therefore that formation of a protein-protein ester linkage introduces a type of timing device into the system. Breakdown of the original protein-phosphorylated tyrosine in this case therefore does not involve a phosphatase enzyme.
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- A O Hawtrey
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa
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Taylor DR, Lee SB, Romano PR, Marshak DR, Hinnebusch AG, Esteban M, Mathews MB. Autophosphorylation sites participate in the activation of the double-stranded-RNA-activated protein kinase PKR. Mol Cell Biol 1996; 16:6295-302. [PMID: 8887659 PMCID: PMC231632 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.11.6295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The interferon-induced RNA-dependent protein kinase PKR is found in cells in a latent state. In response to the binding of double-stranded RNA, the enzyme becomes activated and autophosphorylated on several serine and threonine residues. Consequently, it has been postulated that autophosphorylation is a prerequisite for activation of the kinase. We report the identification of PKR sites that are autophosphorylated in vitro concomitantly with activation and examine their roles in the activation of PKR. Mutation of one site, threonine 258, results in a kinase that is less efficient in autophosphorylation and in phosphorylating its substrate, the initiation factor eIF2, in vitro. The mutant kinase is also impaired in vivo, displaying reduced ability to inhibit protein synthesis in yeast and mammalian cells and to induce a slow-growth phenotype in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutations at two neighboring sites, serine 242 and threonine 255, exacerbated the effect. Taken together with earlier results (S. B. Lee, S. R. Green, M. B. Mathews, and M. Esteban, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:10551-10555, 1994), these data suggest that the central part of the PKR molecule, lying between its RNA-binding and catalytic domains, regulates kinase activity via autophosphorylation.
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- D R Taylor
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA
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Friedman DB, Sundberg HA, Huang EY, Davis TN. The 110-kD spindle pole body component of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a phosphoprotein that is modified in a cell cycle-dependent manner. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1996; 132:903-14. [PMID: 8603921 PMCID: PMC2120732 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.5.903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Spc110p (Nuf1p) is an essential component of the yeast microtubule organizing center, or spindle pole body (SPB). Asynchronous wild-type cultures contain two electrophoretically distinct isoforms of Spc110p as detected by Western blot analysis, suggesting that Spc110p is modified in vivo. Both isoforms incorporate 32Pi in vivo, suggesting that Spc110p is post-translationally modified by phosphorylation. The slower-migrating 120-kD Spc110p isoform after incubation is converted to the faster-migrating 112-kD isoform after incubation with protein phosphatase PP2A, and specific PP2A inhibitors block this conversion. Thus, additional phosphorylation of Spc110p at serine and/or threonine residues gives rise to the slower-migrating 120-kD isoform. The 120-kD isoform predominates in cells arrested in mitosis by the addition of nocodazole. However, the 120-kD isoform is not detectable in cells grown to stationary phase (G0) or in cells arrested in G1 by the addition of alpha-factor. Temperature-sensitive cell division cycle (cdc) mutations demonstrate that the presence of the 120-kD isoform correlates with mitotic spindle formation but not with SPB duplication. In a synchronous wild-type population, the additional serine/threonine phosphorylation that gives rise to the 120-kD isoform appears as cells are forming the mitotic spindle and diminishes as cells enter anaphase. None of several sequences similar to the consensus for phosphorylation by the Cdc28p (cdc2p34) kinase is important for these mitosis-specific phosphorylations or for function. Carboxy-terminal Spc110p truncations lacking the calmodulin binding site can support growth and are also phosphorylated in a cell cycle-specific manner. Further truncation of the Spc110p carboxy terminus results in mutant proteins that are unable to support growth and now migrate as single species. Collectively, these results provide the first evidence of a structural component of the SPB that is phosphorylated during spindle formation and dephosphorylated as cells enter anaphase.
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- D B Friedman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
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- K Sakaguchi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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The dual-specificity phosphatases are unusual catalysts in that they can utilize protein substrates containing phosphotyrosine as well as phosphoserine/threonine. The dual-specificity phosphatases and the protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) share the active site motif (H/V)C(X)5R(S/T), but display little amino acid sequence identity outside of the active site. Although the dual-specificity phosphatases and the PTPases appear to bring about phosphate monoester hydrolysis through a similar mechanism, it is not clear what causes the difference in the active-site specificity between the two groups of enzymes. In this paper, we show that the human dual-specificity phosphatase, VHR [for VH1-Related; Ishibashi et al. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89, 12170-12174], is rather promiscuous toward small phosphate monoesters (including both aryl and alkyl phosphates of primary alcohols) with effectively identical kcat/Km and kcat values while the pKa values of the leaving groups (phenols or alcohols) varied from 7 to 16. Linear free-energy relationship analysis of kcat and kcat/Km of the enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis reaction suggests that a uniform mechanism is utilized for both the aryl and alkyl substrates. The very small dependency of kcat/Km on the leaving group pKa can be accounted for by the protonation of the leaving group. Pre-steady-state burst kinetic analysis of the VHR-catalyzed hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate provides direct kinetic evidence for the involvement of a phosphoenzyme intermediate in the dual specificity phosphatase-catalyzed reaction. The rate-limiting step for the VHR-catalyzed hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate corresponds to the decomposition of the phosphoenzyme intermediate.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- Z Y Zhang
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Riddihough G. Picture story. Cyclin switch. Nat Struct Biol 1995; 2:636. [PMID: 7552724 DOI: 10.1038/nsb0895-636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Muganda PM, Fischer A, Bernal RA. Identification of a casein kinase activity found elevated in human cytomegalovirus transformed cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1995; 207:740-6. [PMID: 7864867 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1995.1249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Protein phosphorylation plays an important role in the regulation of cellular growth and proliferation and is thus thought to play a role in tumorigenesis. It has previously been reported that cells transformed by human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) contain two to four fold higher than normal levels of protein phosphorylation on serine and threonine residues, and two to six fold higher than normal levels of a casein kinase activity. We have now identified the major casein kinase activity found elevated in HCMV transformed cells as casein kinase type II; identification of this kinase was necessary in order to begin to define its role in HCMV mediated morphological transformation. Most of the differences in casein kinase II activity between normal and HCMV transformed cells were explained by differences in casein kinase II protein levels. This represents the first report concerning the elevation of casein kinase II activity in cells transformed by human cytomegalovirus.
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- P M Muganda
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso 79968
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Freter RR, Alberta JA, Lam KK, Stiles CD. A new platelet-derived growth factor-regulated genomic element which binds a serine/threonine phosphoprotein mediates induction of the slow immediate-early gene MCP-1. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:315-25. [PMID: 7799939 PMCID: PMC231960 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.1.315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The MCP-1 chemokine gene belongs to a cohort of immediate-early genes that are induced with slower kinetics than c-fos. In this study, we identified a cluster of four platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-responsive elements within a 240-bp enhancer found in the distal 5' flanking MCP-1 sequences. Two of the elements bind one or more forms of the transcription factor NF-kappa B. We focused on the other two elements which are hitherto unreported, PDGF-regulated genomic motifs. One of these novel elements, detected as a 28-mer by DNase I footprinting, restores PDGF inducibility when added in two copies to a 5' truncated MCP-1 gene. A single copy of the second novel element, a 27-mer, restores PDGF inducibility to a 5' truncated MCP-1 gene. The 27-base element interacts with a PDGF-activated serine/threonine phosphoprotein that is detected only within the nucleus of PDGF-treated 3T3 cells. DNA binding of this phosphoprotein is activated by PDGF treatment with slow kinetics that match the time course of MCP-1 gene expression, and activation is not inhibited by cycloheximide. PDGF-activated binding to the 27-mer is shown to involve a single 30-kDa protein by UV-cross-linking analysis.
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- R R Freter
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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The model peptides glycylglycyltyrosylalanine (Gly-Gly-Tyr-Ala), glycylglycylthreonylalanine (Gly-Gly-Thr-Ala) and glycylglycylserylalanine (Gly-Gly-Ser-Ala) were phosphorylated at the hydroxyl groups of their tyrosyl, threonyl and seryl residues, respectively, and characterized by 31P and 1H NMR spectroscopy. The pKa-value of the phosphoryl group in the tyrosine-containing peptide determined from the pH dependence of chemical shifts is 5.9, the 31P chemical shifts at low pH (4.0) and high pH (8.0) are -3.8 and 0.2 ppm, respectively. Phosphorylation also leads to significant shifts of the 1H NMR resonances of the tyrosine residue; the amide resonance is shifted -0.02 ppm, the H alpha resonance 0.06 ppm, the H beta resonances 0.10 and -0.04 ppm, the H delta resonances 0.02 ppm and the H epsilon resonances 0.26 ppm. The pKa-value of the phosphoryl group in the threonine peptide determined from the pH dependence of chemical shifts is 6.1; the 31P chemical shifts at low pH (4.0) and high pH (8.0) are -0.1 and 4.8 ppm, respectively. The corresponding values for the serine peptide are 6.1 (pKa), 0.6 ppm and 4.9 ppm. Phosphorylation also leads to significant shifts of the 1H NMR resonances of the threonine and serine residues. In the threonine residue the amide resonance is shifted 0.25 ppm, the H alpha-resonance -0.43 ppm, the H beta-resonance 0.03 ppm and the H gamma-resonance 0.09 ppm. In the serine residue the amide resonance is shifted 0.21 ppm, the H alpha-resonance -0.17 ppm, and the H beta-resonances 0.17 ppm.
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- R Hoffmann
- University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Donella Deana A, Mac Gowan CH, Cohen P, Marchiori F, Meyer HE, Pinna LA. An investigation of the substrate specificity of protein phosphatase 2C using synthetic peptide substrates; comparison with protein phosphatase 2A. Biochim Biophys Acta 1990; 1051:199-202. [PMID: 2155667 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(90)90194-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The synthetic phosphopeptide RRATpVA was found to be the most effective substrate for protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) so far identified. Replacement of phosphothreonine by phosphoserine decreased activity over 20-fold and a striking preference for phosphothreonine was also observed with two other substrates (RRSTpTpVA and casein) that were phosphorylated on both serine and threonine. Replacement of the C-terminal valine in RRATpVA by proline abolished dephosphorylation, while exchanging the N-terminal alanine by proline had no effect. The preference for phosphothreonine and the effect of proline are similar to protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). However, the peptide RRREEETpEEEAA, an excellent substrate for PP2A, was not dephosphorylated by PP2C, and substitution of the C-terminal valine in RRATpVA by glutamic acid reduced the rate of dephosphorylation by PP2C over 10-fold, without affecting dephosphorylation by PP2A. Addition of two extra N-terminal arginine residues to RRASpVA increased PP2A catalysed dephosphorylation 4- to 5-fold, without altering dephosphorylation by PP2C. These results represent the first study of the specificity of PP2C using synthetic peptides, and strengthen the view that this approach may lead to the development of more effective and specific substrates for the serine/threonine-specific protein phosphatases.
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- A Donella Deana
- Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Universitá di Padova, Italy
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Hershey JW. Protein phosphorylation controls translation rates. J Biol Chem 1989; 264:20823-6. [PMID: 2687263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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- J W Hershey
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Abstract
Intact washed spermatozoa from goat cauda epididymis possess an ecto-phosphoprotein phosphatase that causes dephosphorylation of phosphoserine and phosphothreonine residues of exogenous 32P-labelled histones. The cell-bound ecto-enzyme has high affinity for proteins (histones, casein, phosvitin, and protamine) rather than phosphate esters, such as p-nitrophenyl phosphate, beta-glycerophosphate, AMP, and ATP. The activity of the enzyme is inhibited by 4 mM Mg2+, Ca2+, Mn2+, or Co2+. Pi (10 mM), NaF (10 mM), and Zn2+ (1 mM) inhibit the enzyme by approximately 50, 35, and 100%, respectively. Polyamines such as spermine and spermidine at 10 mM each caused significant inhibition (60 and 30%, respectively) of the cell-bound phosphoprotein phosphatase activity, whereas cAMP, orthovanadate, and calmodulin (with or without Ca2+) had no appreciable effect. Under the standard assay conditions, spermatozoa remain intact as evidenced by assay of cytosolic enzyme markers. Both the washed and "native" intact spermatozoa showed nearly the same specific activity of the ectoenzyme. The product of the reaction (Pi) was found in the extracellular medium. Sonication doubled the enzymic activity of the intact cells. The specific activity of the enzyme was nearly fourfold higher in the intact forwardly motile cells than the "composite" spermatozoa. These data provide further support for the localization of a phosphoprotein phosphatase on the external surface of spermatozoa and that the ectoenzyme may have a role in the regulation of flagellar motility.
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- M Barua
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
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