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Experiments with cold exposure confirmed previous studies indicating that the endogenous protein acitvator of phosphodiesterase (PDEA) isolated by Cheung participates in the in vivo regulation of 3':5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in adrenal medulla. This activator of cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) (3':5'-cyclic-AMP 5'-nucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.17) is present in the particulate as well as the soluble fractions of rat brain. It was found that a purified cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), in the presence of ATP and cAMP, stimulates 3-fold the release of PDEA from the particulate fraction of rat brain and adrenal medulla. The substrate for this phosphorylation could be either a membrane protein that binds PDEA or PDEA itself. In vivo evidence, however, obtained by injecting rats intraventricularly with [gamma-32P]ATP, indicates that the PDEA does not contain radioactive phosphate in its structure. Also, PDEA could not be phosphorylated by protein kinase in vitro. The following mechanism is postulated: when the intracellular content of cAMP increases it activates a protein kinase which phosphorylates a PDEA-binding membrane protein and releases PDEA. In turn this binds to activator-deficient high Km PDE and decreases its Km to facilitate the hydrolysis of the increased concentration of cAMP.
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PMID:Regulation of transsynaptically elicited increase of 3':5'-cyclic AMP by endogenous phosphodiesterase activator. 17 3

Adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP), a mediator of hormone action in a variety of tissues, has been measured in its free and bound forms in intact cardiac tissue. We have used a rapid high dilution technique which involves tissue homogenization, subcellular fractionation, and separation of bound from free cyclic AMP by Millopore filtration. The precision of this method is dependent upon minimization of binding and dissociation of cyclic AMP that occur during the preparation and handling of tissue homogenates. In each experiment, a tracer of cyclic [3H]AMP prebound to isolated cardiac binding protein was freed of unbound cyclic [3H]AMP by Sephadex gel filtration and added to the tissue just prior to homogenization in cold EDTA buffer. This tracer was therefore treated identically to the sample through all subsequent dilution, fractionation, and filtration procedures, and provided an acurate internal monitor for total cyclic AMP dissociation during the course of the free-bound determination. Each tissue sample was then individually corrected for dissociation. Rapid dilution to produce a 1:1000 homogenate was found to lower endogenous cyclic AMP levels sufficiently to make binding (or rebinding) during the procedure negligible (less than 5%). Spontaneously beating rat right atria (controls) contained 5.96 +/- 0.28 pmol of cyclic AMP/mg of protein (n = 19) of which 41 and 14% were bound to soluble and particulate proteins, respectively. The remaining cyclic AMP was free. Pretreatment of the tissue with 1 muM isoproterenol (30 s at 30 degrees) increased both the bound and free forms of cyclic AMP (n = 8). While free cyclic AMP increased 420% with the catecholamine, the bound forms increased 240% (soluble) and 60% (particulate). Similar results were obtained when atria (n = 6) were treated with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor, methylisobutylxanthine (0.5 mM, 10 min at 30 degrees). When both agents were used together, cyclic AMP bound to soluble proteins was elevated 4-fold over control while free cyclic AMP increased 27-fold (n = 7), indicating saturation of the soluble sites. It could be calculated that less than one-third of these sites are occupied in the unstimulated cell. These sites may represent the R subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. The data suggest that half-maximal binding in vivo occurs at an intracellular free cyclic AMP concentration of about 1 muM.
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PMID:Cardiac adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate. Free and bound forms in the isolated rat atrium. 19 Feb 16

The addition of norepinephrine to brown fat in vitro produced a dose-dependent increase in the protein kinase activity ratio (the ratio of activity assayed without cAMP to that assayed with cAMP) in extracts subsequently prepared in the presence of 0.5 M NaCl. The ratio was slightly increased by insulin. The effects of norepinephrine were potentiated by theophylline and reduced by propranolol. There was a significant linear regression between protein kinase activity ratio and the rate of glycerol release for ratios between 0.32 and 0.52. Higher activity ratios were associated with a slight but nonsignificant increase in glycerol release. The relationship between the protein kinase activity ratio and the concentration of cAMP in brown fat could be expressed by simple saturation kinetics. There was a significant linear regression between the reciprocal of the concentration of cAMP in the tissue and the reciprocal of the activity ratio over the whole range of observed values. Exposure of 1-month-old rats to cold increased the protein kinase activity ratio in their brown fat. This confirms that activation of protein kinase is involved in the physiological response of a tissue to a specific environmental stimulus. As the rat became fully adapted to the cold, the activity ratio declined. The protein kinase activity ratio in brown fat was low in late fetuses but greatly increased immediately after birth and remained high for the next 2 weeks. During this period the ratio was not further increased by the injection of norepinephrine but was reduced after chemical sympathectomy. The activity ratio in brown fat fell during the 3rd and 4th weeks after birth. At this time injection of norepinephrine increased the ratio whereas chemical sympathectomy had little effect. These observations confirm that the stimulation of the tissue by the sympathetic nerves results in an activation of protein kinase and reflect the reduced requirement for heat production in brown fat as the animals grow.
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PMID:Portein kinases in brown adipose tissue of developing rats. State of activation of protein kinase during development and cold exposure and its relationship to adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate, lipolysis, and heat production. 19 Feb 18

The p34cdc2 protein kinase plays a central role in the regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle, being required both in late G1 for the commitment to S-phase and in late G2 for the initiation of mitosis. p34cdc2 also determines the precise timing of entry into mitosis in fission yeast, where a number of gene products that regulate p34cdc2 activity have been identified and characterised. To investigate further the mitotic role of p34cdc2 in this organism we have isolated new cold-sensitive p34cdc2 mutants. These are defective only in their G2 function and are extragenic suppressors of the lethal premature entry into mitosis brought about by mutating the mitotic inhibitor p107wee1 and overproducing the mitotic activator p80cdc25. One of the mutant proteins p34cdc2-E8 is only functional in the absence of p107wee1, and all the mutant strains have reduced histone H1 kinase activity in vitro. Each mutant allele has been cloned and sequenced, and the lesions responsible for the cold-sensitive phenotypes identified. All the mutations were found to map to regions that are conserved between the fission yeast p34cdc2 and functional homologues from higher eukaryotes.
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PMID:Cold-sensitive mutants of p34cdc2 that suppress a mitotic catastrophe phenotype in fission yeast. 131 96

Recent studies have demonstrated that chronic stress increases the firing rate and expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in neurons of the locus coeruleus (LC), the major noradrenergic nucleus in brain. The present study was undertaken to examine the influence of chronic stress and other treatments known to influence the activity of LC neurons on the cyclic AMP (cAMP) second messenger system in these neurons. Chronic (5 days) cold exposure significantly increased levels of TH immunoreactivity in the LC, as previously reported, but not in substantia nigra (SN) or ventral tegmentum (VT), two dopaminergic nuclei studied for comparison. Chronic cold exposure increased levels of cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity in soluble, but not particulate, fractions of the LC, and increased basal and GTP- and forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in this brain region. In contrast, levels of the protein kinase and adenylate cyclase in VT, SN, and frontal cortex were not significantly influenced by cold exposure. To study further the relationship between regulation of LC firing rate, TH expression, and the cAMP system in the LC, other treatments known to influence TH were examined. Reserpine treatment, shown previously to increase levels of TH, was found to increase both LC firing rate and levels of soluble cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity in the LC. 6-Hydroxydopamine, shown previously to increase levels of TH and firing rate of LC neurons, also increased soluble levels of protein kinase activity. Other treatments known to either increase (adrenalectomy) or decrease (chronic imipramine) levels of TH in the LC were also found to increase or decrease, respectively, levels of cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity in this brain region.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Coordinate regulation of the cyclic AMP system with firing rate and expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat locus coeruleus: effects of chronic stress and drug treatments. 134 39

We studied changes in myofibrillar function and protein profiles after complete global ischemia with anoxia in rat hearts. Hearts were exposed to global ischemia and anoxia (CGI) for 30 or 60 minutes at 37 degrees C, and myofibrils were prepared for measurement of Ca(2+)-dependent Mg(2+)-ATPase activity at pH 7.0 and 6.5. Hearts incubated in cold saline (1 +/- 1 degrees C) and nonincubated hearts served as controls. Maximum ATPase activity was unchanged at pH 7.0 and pH 6.5 in myofibrils from hearts treated with 30 or 60 minutes of CGI. At pH 7.0, the Hill coefficient, which is an index of cooperative interactions among thin-filament proteins, was unchanged after 30 minutes of CGI but was significantly increased after 60 minutes of CGI. A similar trend for increased cooperativity was observed when myofibrillar ATPase activity was measured at pH 6.5 in myofibrils from rat hearts made ischemic for 30 or 60 minutes. Both 30 and 60 minutes of CGI resulted in increased pCa50 values (half-maximally activating free [Ca2+]) at pH 7.0 and pH 6.5. Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI. Two new protein bands appearing in ischemia-treated myofibrils were identified as partially degraded troponin I and troponin T with Western blots. The troponin I fragment could be phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. In addition, we observed phosphorylation of a protein band that corresponded to myosin light chain-2 in myofibrils from CGI-treated hearts. These results suggest that degradation of thin-filament proteins may contribute to the changes in cooperativity of Ca2+ regulation of ATPase activity observed in the myofibrils from rat hearts exposed to CGI.
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PMID:Alterations in myofibrillar function and protein profiles after complete global ischemia in rat hearts. 153 Nov 86

Inorganic pyrophosphate can function as phosphate donor in protein phosphorylation reactions in yeast mitochondria. It was shown that, when PPi substitutes for ATP as inhibitor of the pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction, maximal activity is reached after a lag-period of 30-60 minutes. 32P-labeling of peptides shows that [32P]PPi gives about 25% of the labeling obtained by [gamma-32P]ATP in the protein kinase reaction. The PPi dependent phosphorylation is increased several fold by the presence of cold ATP.
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PMID:Protein phosphorylation by inorganic pyrophosphate in yeast mitochondria. 165 20

Incubation of Swiss 3T3 murine fibroblasts at low temperatures induces phosphorylation on tyrosine of a transmembrane protein of 175 kDa. This phenomenon is time and temperature dependent and reaches a maximum after 2 hr at 4 degrees C. The 175 kDa protein phosphorylated in vivo at low temperatures can be immunoprecipitated by phosphotyrosine antibodies and displays auto-kinase activity in vitro in the presence of radiolabelled ATP. This molecule was found to react with anti-peptide antibodies directed against the product of the HER2/neu proto-oncogene only when immunoprecipitated with phosphotyrosine antibodies from cold-stimulated cells. Activation of protein kinase-C by treatment of the cells with phorbol esters, bombesin or PDGF inhibits the effect of the exposure to low temperatures. Phosphorylation of p175 is not induced by treatment of the cells with the phosphatases inhibitor sodium orthovanadate. These results suggest that, at low temperatures, the tyrosine kinase associated with the putative receptor encoded by c-neu is activated by physico-chemical modifications of the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Ligand-independent tyrosine phosphorylation of the receptor encoded by the c-neu oncogene. 168 56

Bovine hoof keratin was shown to be a substrate for cAMP-dependent protein kinase using [gamma-32P]ATP. Natural-abundance cross-polarization (CP) MAS 13C NMR was used to examine the effect of phosphorylation on keratin structure. When short contact times were used, phosphorylation was shown to increase the number of residues in the motionally restricted portions of the protein; i.e., a portion(s) of the protein became more rigid upon phosphorylation. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra showed a spectral shape characteristic of alpha helix for this keratin. Phosphorylation of the keratin by cAMP-dependent protein kinase resulted in a CD spectrum with the same shape but of greater apparent intensity. This may have been the result of an increase in the alpha-helical content of the protein. These data showed that the structure of keratin changed significantly upon phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. The region of the keratin molecule most likely to be altering its structure was the end of the molecule, which was involved in the formation of, and intracellular attachment of, intermediate filaments. Therefore, these data suggested that cAMP-dependent phosphorylation may produce significant changes in the intracellular organization of intermediate filaments. When the keratin was phosphorylated using cold ATP, magic-angle spinning (MAS) 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) revealed two resonances arising from the phosphorylation sites on the keratin. The more shielded resonance was shown to arise from cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation. Static 31P NMR measurements suggested that at least two classes of cAMP-dependent sites existed with the same isotropic 31P chemical shift; one was considerably motionally restricted with respect to the other.
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PMID:Phosphorylation modulates keratin structure. 169 40

The p107wee1 protein kinase plays a central role in regulating the cell cycle of fission yeast. It mediates transmission of signal(s) related to the nutritional status of the cell to the p34cdc2 protein kinase, which is an active component of the MPF complex driving cells into mitosis. p107wee1 is itself subject to control by the products of other genes such as nim1+/cdr1+, win1+, and perhaps wis1+ and other wis+ genes. At present, the relationships between these genes and their possible roles in the mitotic control are unclear and must await further analysis (Fig. 5). It is likely that some of the gene products are concerned with the sensing and/or transmission of nutritional signals. p107wee1 negatively regulates the activity of p34cdc2, probably by direct tyrosine phosphorylation, and also appears to regulate the activities of the cdc1+ and cdc27+ gene products. The effects of nitrogen starvation and of wee1 mutations on conditional lethal mutations at the cdc1, cdc2, and cdc27 loci, taken together, support the largely speculative model shown in Figure 5. During the normal cycle, the balance between phosphorylated and dephosphorylated p34cdc2 changes such that at the appropriate time, p34cdc2 is activated and the cell enters mitosis. We suggest that the cdc1+ and cdc27+ products may be regulated in a similar way. Such a mechanism would ensure coordinated activation of these and perhaps other proteins required for the G2/M transition. There are, of course, many uncertainties, and these must await elucidation by biochemical and genetic analysis.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1991
PMID:New elements in the mitotic control of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. 181 10


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