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A dominant negative mutant of Ras, M17 Ras, was used to study the role of Ras in receptor coupling of Raf-1 and B-Raf protein serine/threonine kinases (PSKs). We found that mutant Ras blocks serum- and 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate-induced activation of Raf-1 kinase in NIH3T3 cells and Raf-1 as well as B-Raf PSK stimulation by nerve growth factor (NGF) in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. Mitogen stimulation of Raf kinase was measured by determination of Raf hyperphosphorylation and activity towards exogenous substrates and both of these events were inhibited in cells expressing M17 Ras. In contrast, tyrosine phosphorylation of a direct substrate of activated tyrosine kinase receptors, phospholipase C-gamma 1 (PLC-gamma 1), was unaffected. These data indicate that tyrosine phosphorylation of PLC-gamma 1 is not sufficient for growth induction in NIH3T3 cells and that Ras mediates signal transfer from activated membrane receptors to Raf kinases in the cytosol. As activated Raf induced differentiation in PC12 cells expressing M17 Ras we conclude that Raf kinase activation may be sufficient to account for this aspect of NGF function.
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PMID:Ras controls coupling of growth factor receptors and protein kinase C in the membrane to Raf-1 and B-Raf protein serine kinases in the cytosol. 138 20

Microtubule-associated protein 2 kinase (MAP kinase), which exists in several forms, is a protein serine/threonine kinase that participates in a growth factor-activated protein kinase cascade in which it activates a ribosomal protein S6 kinase (pp90rsk) while being regulated itself by a cytoplasmic factor (MAP kinase activator). Experiments with recombinant MAP kinase, ERK2, purified from Escherichia coli in a nonactivated form revealed a self-catalyzed phosphate incorporation into both tyrosine and threonine residues. Another MAP kinase, ERK1, purified from insulin-stimulated cells also autophosphorylated on tyrosine and threonine residues. Autophosphorylation of ERK2 correlated with its autoactivation, although both autophosphorylation and autoactivation were slow compared to that occurring in the presence of MAP kinase activator. Therefore, we propose that autophosphorylation is probably involved in the MAP kinase activation process in vitro, but it may not be sufficient for full activation. The specificity toward tyrosine and threonine residues indicates that the MAP kinases ERK1 and ERK2 are members of a group of kinases with specificity for tyrosine as well as serine and threonine residues.
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PMID:Microtubule-associated protein 2 kinases, ERK1 and ERK2, undergo autophosphorylation on both tyrosine and threonine residues: implications for their mechanism of activation. 171 80

Protein kinase C is a family of multifunctional protein serine/threonine kinase and generally accepted to be involved in a wide variety of cellular signal transduction. Biochemical and immunochemical studies as well as sequence analysis of its cDNA clones have revealed the existence of multiple subspecies of this enzyme with obvious tissue-specific expression. Enzymatic properties of type I, II, and III protein kinase C subspecies, which are encoded by gamma-, beta I- and beta II, and alpha-cDNA, respectively, are well characterized. Many proteins and peptides are reported as phosphate acceptors of these protein kinase C subspecies. In this study, it is shown that a synthetic peptide, Gln-Lys-Arg-Pro-Ser-Gln-Arg-Ser-Lys-Tyr-Leu, which corresponds to amino acid residues 4-14 of bovine myelin basic protein, is the most specific and convenient substrate for selective assay of protein kinase C among various phosphate acceptor proteins and peptides. This peptide is phosphorylated at Ser-8, but not Ser-11 by protein kinase C subspecies in a manner dependent on Ca2+, phosphatidylserine, and diacylglycerol. This peptide is not phosphorylated by other protein serine/threonine kinases such as cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Thus, it is possible to assay protein kinase C activity in the crude tissue extracts selectively using this peptide as a phosphate acceptor.
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PMID:Selective assay of protein kinase C with a specific peptide substrate. 172 Aug 27

Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) rapidly increases the expression of junB transcription factor and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and prevents the cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation of the RB retinoblastoma susceptibility gene product during late G1 phase in Mv1Lu lung epithelial cells. These responses are shown in this report to be blocked by the potent serine/threonine protein kinase inhibitor, H7, added with TGF-beta 1. Added alone, H7 does not alter the basal junB or PAI-1 mRNA levels, the deposition of PAI-1 into the extracellular matrix, or the phosphorylation of RB in late G1 phase, suggesting that this inhibitor does not have a general nonspecific effect on the cell. The analogs H8 and H9, which are preferential inhibitors of cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases, are fivefold less potent than H7 as inhibitors of the TGF-beta response. The PAI-1 response to TGF-beta 1 is not affected by the simultaneous addition of staurosporine, which is a protein kinase C inhibitor, or by the prolonged preincubation of cells with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, which down-regulates protein kinase C. The results suggest the possibility that H7 and its analogs block various early TGF-beta responses by inhibiting a protein serine/threonine kinase(s).
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PMID:Evidence for the involvement of protein kinase activity in transforming growth factor-beta signal transduction. 172 3

The protein product of the Raf-1 proto-oncogene is a protein serine/threonine kinase that is activated after stimulation of cells with insulin and other mitogens. To investigate the mechanism of this activation, we used purified Raf-1 expressed in E. coli as a substrate for a putative Raf-1 protein kinase kinase. In three different insulin-sensitive cell types, insulin activated Raf-1 kinase kinase activity in crude cytosolic cellular fractions. The insulin stimulation of this activity was evident as early as 2 min after exposure to insulin, maximal at 5-8 min, and inapparent at 15 min. Phosphoamino acid analysis of phosphorylated Raf-1 revealed that serine was the primary phosphate acceptor for the insulin-activated kinase or kinases; small amounts of phosphothreonine were also detected. The insulin effect occurred in cells depleted of protein kinase C, and in extracts depleted of endogenous Raf-1 kinase by immunodepletion; these data argue against protein kinase C or Raf-1 kinase itself being the insulin-stimulated activity. The insulin-activated kinase or kinases phosphorylated the Raf-1 protein on multiple sites in vitro, as evidenced by tryptic mapping; at least some of these appeared to overlap with sites phosphorylated in response to serum in intact cells. Several other mitogens and growth factors stimulated Raf-1 kinase kinase activity, including epidermal growth factor, platelet-derived growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, serum, and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. This insulin- and mitogen-stimulated Raf-1 kinase kinase activity may play a role in mediating the phosphorylation and possibly the activation of the Raf-1 kinase by insulin and other growth factors.
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PMID:Evidence for one or more Raf-1 kinase kinase(s) activated by insulin and polypeptide growth factors. 203 87

Casein kinase II is a widely distributed protein serine/threonine kinase. The holoenzyme appears to be a tetramer, containing two alpha or alpha' subunits (or one of each) and two beta subunits. Complementary DNA clones encoding the subunits of casein kinase II were isolated from a human T-cell lambda gt10 library using cDNA clones isolated from Drosophila melanogaster [Saxena et al. (1987) Mol. Cell. Biol. 7, 3409-3417]. One of the human cDNA clones (hT4.1) was 2.2 kb long, including a coding region of 1176 bp preceded by 156 bp (5' untranslated region) and followed by 871 bp (3' untranslated region). The hT4.1 clone was nearly identical in size and sequence with a cDNA clone from HepG2 human hepatoma cultured cells [Meisner et al. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4072-4076]. Another of the human T-cell cDNA clones (hT9.1) was 1.8 kb long, containing a coding region of 1053 bp preceded by 171 bp (5' untranslated region) and followed by 550 bp (3' untranslated region). Amino acid sequences deduced from these two cDNA clones were about 85% identical. Most of the difference between the two encoded polypeptides was in the carboxy-terminal region, but heterogeneity was distributed throughout the molecules. Partial amino acid sequence was determined in a mixture of alpha and alpha' subunits from bovine lung casein kinase II. The bovine sequences aligned with the 2 human cDNA-encoded polypeptides with only 2 discrepancies out of 535 amino acid positions. This confirmed that the two human T-cell cDNA clones encoded the alpha and alpha' subunits of casein kinase II. Microsequence data determined from separated preparations of bovine casein kinase II alpha subunit and alpha' subunit [Litchfield et al. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 7638-7644] confirmed that hT4.1 encoded the alpha subunit and hT9.1 encoded the alpha' subunit. These studies show that there are two distinct catalytic subunits for casein kinase II (alpha and alpha') and that the sequence of these subunits is largely conserved between the bovine and the human.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of human cDNA clones encoding the alpha and the alpha' subunits of casein kinase II. 217

Casein kinase II is a protein serine/threonine kinase that exhibits a preference for acidic substrates. Previous studies have demonstrated that a glutamic acid 3 amino acids C-terminal (+3) to a serine or threonine is required for phosphorylation. To examine the ability of phosphoserine and phosphothreonine residues to serve as specificity determinants for casein kinase II, phosphopeptides containing either of these phosphoamino acids in the +3 position were synthesized and tested as substrates. Phosphopeptides containing phosphoserine in the +3 position were readily phosphorylated. In contrast, corresponding phosphothreonine-containing peptides were very poorly phosphorylated. These results imply that prior phosphorylation of substrate proteins on serine, but not threonine residues, may II.
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PMID:Synthetic phosphopeptides are substrates for casein kinase II. 230 28

The unusually large (approximately 600 to > 3000 kDa) myosin-associated proteins of the titin/twitchin superfamily are considered to be important cytoskeletal rulers for thick filament assembly in muscle. This function is maintained by approximately 60-240 modular fibronectin-type-III and immunoglobulin-C2 repeats in these proteins which further contain a protein serine/threonine kinase domain of unknown function. In this study, the bacterially expressed kinase domain of Aplysia twitchin was used in order to identify a potential physiological substrate. Addition of the recombinant kinase to Aplysia actomyosin preparations resulted in the specific phosphorylation of the 19-kDa myosin regulatory light chains. The twitchin kinase phosphorylated purified light chains on Thr15 in a region which shared a high degree of similarity with the phosphorylation site for vertebrate smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase. Peptide analogs of the twitchin substrate sequence and the similar sequence in vertebrate smooth muscle myosin light chains were phosphorylated with good kinetic properties. These data reveal the first potential substrate for any of the giant protein kinases and support a dual role of twitchin in molluscan muscle as a cytoskeletal protein as well as a myosin light chain kinase.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains by the molluscan twitchin kinase. 758 84

We have studied the activity and substrate specificity of the catalytic domain of a protein kinase that was isolated in a screen of a human lambda gt11 fibroblast cDNA library with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. The sequence of this protein kinase would predict that it is a protein serine/threonine kinase, which at first seemed incongruent with the cloning method. However, recent reports indicate that some protein kinases can phosphorylate both tyrosine and serine/threonine residues. To determine whether this protein kinase, which we call PYT (for phosphotyrosine picked threonine kinase), was a dual-specificity protein kinase we investigated its substrate specificity when expressed in bacteria. The catalytic domain was active as a protein kinase when expressed from any of several promoters and when expressed as a TrpE fusion protein. All experiments that resulted in an active protein kinase, as judged by incorporation of 32P by metabolic labeling, also resulted in the generation of proteins that were recognized by anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. Phosphoamino acid analyses of the metabolically labeled proteins that were recognized by the antibodies consistently yielded large amounts of phosphothreonine and only trace amounts of phosphotyrosine. We mapped the phosphorylation sites in the phosphorylated PYT protein and found only phosphothreonine; 90% of the radioactivity mapped to a threonine in the region autophosphorylated by many protein kinases. These data demonstrate that PYT is primarily a protein threonine kinase, but that it can phosphorylate tyrosine to a small extent, making it a potential dual-specificity protein kinase.
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PMID:Characterization of a human protein threonine kinase isolated by screening an expression library with antibodies to phosphotyrosine. 767 26

The SNF1 protein kinase is required for the regulatory response to glucose starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. SNF1 is a protein serine/threonine kinase that has been widely conserved in both plants and mammals. Previously, we identified SIP1 and SIP2 as proteins that interact with SNF1 in vivo by the two-hybrid system. We have cloned the SIP2 gene and the encoded protein is homologous to SIP1 and to GAL83, which affects glucose repression of the GAL genes. We show that SIP2 and GAL83, like SIP1, co-immunoprecipitate with SNF1 and are phosphorylated in vitro. An 80 amino acid sequence, designated the ASC domain, is highly conserved at the C-termini of all three proteins. We show that this small domain can mediate protein-protein interaction with the SNF1 kinase complex. Thus, SIP1, SIP2 and GAL83 define a family of homologous proteins that are tightly associated with the SNF1 kinase, probably in alternative forms of the complex. Genetic evidence suggests that the three proteins have distinct, but related, functions in the SNF1 pathway, and deletion of GAL83 dramatically reduces SNF1 activity in immune complex assays. We propose that SIP1, SIP2 and GAL83 act as adaptors that promote the activity of SNF1 towards specific targets.
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PMID:A family of proteins containing a conserved domain that mediates interaction with the yeast SNF1 protein kinase complex. 781 28


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