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Query: EC:2.7.11.1 (protein kinase)
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Protein kinase activity toward the 40 S ribosomal protein S6 is activated 6-fold in regenerating rat liver following 70% hepatectomy. The kinase is maximally activated within 2 h after surgery, remains active up to 36 h after surgery, and declines rapidly thereafter. The post-hepatectomy S6 kinase activity exhibits structural and functional similarity to an insulin-stimulated S6 kinase in H4 hepatoma cells. Both S6 kinase activities are cAMP- and Ca2+-independent, and have a requirement for [ethylenebis(oxyethylenenitrilo)]tetraacetic acid. The regenerating liver and the insulin-stimulated H4 hepatoma S6 kinase elute at similar positions when sequentially fractionated by anion-exchange and cation-exchange chromatography. Both enzymes migrate at Mr 70,000 on fast protein liquid chromatography Superose 12 gel filtration. In H4 hepatoma cells, activation of S6 kinase activity is reversed by removal of insulin, and the cells can then be restimulated. Freshly isolated hepatocytes from normal animals show low levels of S6 kinase activity which can be stimulated by epidermal growth factor and insulin. Hepatocytes prepared from regenerating liver remnant have constitutively high levels of S6 kinase activity, which is unresponsive to insulin plus epidermal growth factor and which remains elevated at least 2 h in the absence of exogenously added growth factors. These findings demonstrate S6 protein kinase activation in vivo, in the setting of regulated cell growth; as in cultured cells, activation of S6 kinase probably represents an early step in the pleiotypic response elicited by activation of growth factor receptors.
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PMID:An S6 kinase activated during liver regeneration is related to the insulin-stimulated S6 kinase in H4 hepatoma cells. 284 28

Protooncogene fos is rapidly and transiently induced by nerve growth factor (NGF) in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Two adjacent promoter elements have been identified to mediate the NGF response. One element colocalizes with the serum response element (SRE) centered at position -308, previously shown to confer inducibility by serum, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, and epidermal growth factor, whereas the other element, termed SRE-2, maps approximately 20 base pairs downstream of the SRE and contains several sequence repeats. This element also confers serum responsiveness. Gel mobility shift assays have demonstrated that there are specific nucleoprotein complexes associated with each element and that these exist in the cell prior to NGF induction. The NGF response is independent of the cAMP-regulatory element(s) and does not require cAMP-dependent protein kinase II, as induction by NGF is retained in the mutant PC12 cell line A126-1B2. Finally, the human heat shock HSP70 promoter is also transcriptionally activated by NGF and appears to bind the same nuclear complex as the SRE-2 element of the c-fos promoter.
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PMID:Two adjacent promoter elements mediate nerve growth factor activation of the c-fos gene and bind distinct nuclear complexes. 284 7

The protein kinase activity of isolated plasma membranes from the livers of rats treated with three promoting regimens was examined using both exogenous proteins and endogenous plasma membrane proteins as substrates. Male rats first received either an initiating dose (30 mg/kg) of the hepatocarcinogen diethylnitrosamine or the 0.9% NaCl solution vehicle by i.p. injection at 18 h following partial hepatectomy. Ten days later, the three promoting regimens were begun. These consisted of 10 weeks of treatment with either (a) a choline-deficient (CD) diet, (b) a choline-supplemented (CS) diet containing 0.06% phenobarbital (PHB) (CS plus PHB), or (c) a CD diet containing 0.06% PHB (CD plus PHB). In addition, two other groups of rats received either (a) a CS diet containing 2% di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) (CS plus DEHP) or (b) a CD diet containing 2% DEHP (CD plus DEHP). DEHP is a widely used plasticizer and environmental contaminant which we have shown previously inhibits the development of putative preneoplastic gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) positive foci in rat liver. Total liver plasma membrane protein kinase activity using both protamine sulfate and histone was cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate independent and did not appear to be a marker of promotion. Its activity was increased by both DEHP which suppresses the development of GGT positive foci and a CD diet which promotes the appearance of GGT positive foci. The CD, CS plus PHB, and CD plus PHB dietary regimens, which promote the appearance of GGT positive foci, induced the phosphorylation of a Mr 40,000 plasma membrane protein in vitro by endogenous protein kinases. Plasma membranes from DEHP-treated rats did not demonstrate phosphorylation of this Mr 40,000 protein. DEHP dietary treatment also blocked the ability of epidermal growth factor to enhance the phosphorylation of its Mr 175,000 receptor protein in isolated liver plasma membranes. These results suggest that the phosphorylation of a Mr 40,000 plasma membrane protein may be important to the early promotional phase of liver carcinogenesis, and that one mechanism by which DEHP inhibits the emergence of GGT positive foci may be by blocking the response of initiated cells to stimulation by epidermal growth factor.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of specific rat plasma membrane proteins during promotion of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase-positive hepatic foci and inhibition by di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate. 285 9

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta) from human platelets blocks the ability of Mv1Lu mink lung epithelial cells to grow in response to serum mitogens, epidermal growth factor (EGF), or insulin. The phenotypic response of Mv1Lu cells to TGF beta is characterized by a flat, very enlarged cell morphology and a markedly increased production and accumulation of extracellular matrix fibronectin. The ability of TGF beta to alter the ligand binding or signal transducing activity of mitogen receptors in Mv1Lu cells has been examined. In contrast to NRK-49F rat fibroblasts, Mv1Lu cells do not respond to TGF beta with a decrease in the affinity or a change in the number of cell surface receptors for EGF. Soluble extracts from Mv1Lu cells contain a protein kinase activity which selectively phosphorylates ribosomal protein S6; this S6 kinase activity is elevated severalfold minutes after exposure of cells to mitogens. This kinase activity has been used as the parameter to measure the signaling ability of EGF receptors and insulin receptors in cells treated with TGF beta. We find that TGF beta does not alter the basal level of S6 kinase activity or its elevation by EGF or insulin. In TGF beta-treated cells rendered insensitive to the growth-promoting action of EGF, the parameters of elevation of S6 kinase activity by EGF are similar to those of control, growth-competent cells. The results suggest that TGF beta inhibits cell proliferation by acting at a level distal from the receptors for growth-activating factors.
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PMID:The antiproliferative effect of type beta transforming growth factor occurs at a level distal from receptors for growth-activating factors. 287 96

The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor is a plasma membrane glycoprotein. It contains four distinct segments: an N-terminal EGF binding domain which is exposed at the cell surface; a short transmembrane segment; a cytoplasmic domain with protein-tyrosine kinase activity; and a C-terminal regulatory segment. Binding of EGF to the external domain of the receptor activates the protein-tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor, and this elevated kinase activity is presumed to be involved in the activation of cell growth. The v-erbB transforming gene of avian erythroblastosis virus is derived, by retroviral transduction, from the gene (c-erbB) which encodes the avian EGF receptor. The transforming capacity of v-erbB appears to result from truncation of the receptor. In erythroid cells, truncation of the N-terminal ligand binding domain is sufficient for transformation, whereas in fibroblasts removal of an additional C-terminal segment is required for transformation. The EGF receptor is subject to complex regulatory controls, including ligand activation, downregulation by internalization, autophosphorylation and autoregulation and transmodulation involving phosphorylation by kinase C. This review is centered around the hypothesis that the transforming capacity of the truncated v-erbB gene product results from a loss in sensitivity to regulators and the consequent activation of protein kinase activity.
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PMID:The erbB gene and the EGF receptor. 287 33

Exposure of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes to the protein kinase C (Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase)-activating phorbol esters 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) or 4-beta-phorbol-12,13-didecanoate markedly enhanced accumulation of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) mRNA and secretion of TGF-alpha protein. The nonactivating phorbol ester, 4-alpha-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate, had no effect. In the absence of exogenous growth factors, confluent cultures of keratinocytes express low or undetectable levels of TGF-alpha mRNA and protein. While TPA and epidermal growth factor treatment of keratinocyte cultures deprived of growth factors both induced TGF-alpha mRNA expression, maximum induction by TPA is 5-fold greater than epidermal growth factor. Furthermore, the addition of epidermal growth factor did not enhance TPA-mediated induction of TGF-alpha mRNA expression. Under these experimental conditions, TPA increased levels of secreted TGF-alpha protein by 20-fold at 24 h. Concentration dependence and kinetic studies of TGF-alpha expression showed that TPA (greater than or equal to 1 ng/ml) induced accumulation of TGF-alpha mRNA with an optimum concentration of 10 ng/ml. TGF-alpha mRNA expression increased within 1 h following TPA treatment (10 ng/ml) and peaked at 5 h. At 24 h, TPA-treated cultures still expressed elevated levels of TGF-alpha mRNA (1.7-fold). Protein secretion into the medium was enhanced 2-fold (5 h) to 3-fold (24 h) by TPA treatment of keratinocyte cultures containing growth factors. Prolonged pretreatment (24 h) of keratinocyte cultures with TPA caused marked desensitization of TGF-alpha mRNA expression to repeated stimulation by phorbol ester. The synthetic diacylglycerol, 1,2-sn-dioctanoylglycerol, enhanced levels of TGF-alpha transcription and secretion of TGF-alpha protein. The rate of TGF-alpha mRNA accumulation peaked and declined earlier for 1,2-sn-dioctanoylglycerol compared to TPA. 1,2-sn-Dioctanoylglycerol (50 micrograms/ml) increased production and secretion of TGF-alpha protein, but less than TPA treatment. An inhibitor of protein kinase C, 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine, also inhibited 1,2-sn-dioctanoylglycerol-mediated accumulation of TGF-alpha mRNA. Cycloheximide failed to inhibit TGF-alpha mRNA expression induced by TPA and, when added alone to keratinocyte cultures, significantly enhanced TGF-alpha mRNA accumulation. Actinomycin D abrogated transcriptional activation of TGF-alpha mRNA by TPA. These studies suggest that activation of protein kinase C by active phorbol esters or diacylglycerols is responsible, at least in part, for TGF-alpha gene expression.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Induction of transforming growth factor-alpha expression in human keratinocytes by phorbol esters. 292 87

Exposure of A-431 cells to epidermal growth factor (EGF) results in a rapid enhancement (approximately 10-fold) of cytosolic serine protein kinase activity. The increase in serine kinase activity may be detected using a number of peptide and protein substrates. Enhancement of kinase activity occurs within 1 min of exposure of the cells to EGF and reaches a maximum in 5 min. Similar results were obtained with a variety of cell lines. We have partially purified the EGF-activated kinase from A-431 cells. It has an apparent molecular mass of approximately 100 kDa by gel filtration. One distinguishing property of the enzyme is its sensitivity to inhibition by micromolar quantities of polyarginine; polylysine has no effect. The EGF-activated kinase is unaffected by cyclic nucleotides, Ca2+/calmodulin, Ca2+/diolein/phosphatidylserine, or heparin. The enhancement of cytosolic serine kinase activity in A-431 cells appears to be an early event in cell "activation" by a number of biological response modifiers including EGF, bradykinin, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate, and histamine.
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PMID:Activation of a cytosolic serine protein kinase by epidermal growth factor. 297 35

The cell-permeable diacylglycerol, sn-1,2-dioctanoylglycerol (DiC8), is shown to mimic the effect of tumor promoting phorbol diesters on epidermal growth factor (EGF) binding and action in intact cells. DiC8 inhibited the binding of [3H]phorbol dibutyrate to A431 cell monolayers indicating that the diacylglycerol interacts with the phorbol diester receptor. At 0.3 microM, DiC8 half-maximally inhibited the high affinity binding of 125I-EGF to A431 human epidermoid carcinoma cells. Scatchard analysis indicated that the inhibition of 125I-EGF binding was very similar to that observed in the presence of 4 beta-phorbol 12 beta-myristate 13 alpha-acetate (PMA). DiC8 also mimicked the action of PMA to increase the phosphorylation state of the EGF receptor in 32P-labeled cells. Phosphoamino acid analysis demonstrated that DiC8 and PMA caused an increase in the level of EGF-receptor phosphoserine and phosphothreonine, whereas EGF caused an increase in the level of phosphoserine, phosphothreonine, and phosphotyrosine. Phosphopeptide mapping of the EGF receptor showed that DiC8 and PMA enhanced the phosphorylation of the same tryptic peptides. DiC8 inhibited the EGF-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of the EGF receptor in A431 cells in a similar manner to that observed with PMA. In further experiments with quiescent Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts, DiC8 mimicked the ability of PMA to stimulate the incorporation of [methyl-3H]thymidine synergistically with low concentrations of EGF. This result indicates that DiC8 will mimic the long-term effects of PMA to regulate mitogenesis and raises the possibility that it may be active in two stage carcinogenesis. As both DiC8 and PMA stimulate the Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (C-kinase) in vitro, the results support the hypothesis that the activation of C-kinase is a critical component of phorbol diester action on EGF receptor modulation and cell proliferation.
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PMID:sn-1,2-Dioctanoylglycerol. A cell-permeable diacylglycerol that mimics phorbol diester action on the epidermal growth factor receptor and mitogenesis. 298 62

The v-erbB gene product of avian erythroblastosis virus (AEV) has extensive homology with the receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF). We report here that chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) transformed by AEV show enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of cellular polypeptides, including the 36 kd protein, which is phosphorylated in avian sarcoma virus-transformed fibroblasts, and the 42 kd protein, which is phosphorylated in mitogen-stimulated cells. CEF infected by AEV mutants with deletions in v-erbA showed enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation, whereas CEF infected by mutants with deletions in v-erbB did not. When membranes from AEV-transformed cells were incubated with gamma-32P-ATP, both the v-erbB gene product and the 36 kd cellular protein became phosphorylated at tyrosine. These results indicate that the v-erbB protein induces tyrosine phosphorylation in vivo and in vitro, and suggest that, like the EGF receptor, it possesses tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity.
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PMID:Protein phosphorylation at tyrosine is induced by the v-erbB gene product in vivo and in vitro. 298

Radiation inactivation with high energy electrons from a linear accelerator was used to determine the functional molecular size of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) binding site and the tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity in A-431 membranes. The target size of the protein portion of the EGF receptor glycoprotein was 147,000 daltons when the radiation-dependent decrease in maximal binding capacity was measured. Since the target size is in good agreement with the molecular size of the protein portion of the EGF receptor determined by denaturing biochemical methods, it appears that the monomeric receptor is the functional binding site in situ. The target size of the EGF-stimulated kinase activity associated with the affinity-purified EGF receptor/kinase was 133,000 and 144,000 daltons when assayed for the ability to autophosphorylate or to phosphorylate a tyrosine-containing peptide, respectively. However, the target size of the kinase activity that did not adhere to an EGF-affinity column was 54,000 and 69,000 daltons when assayed for phosphorylation of endogenous and exogenous substrates, respectively. Intermediate target sizes were obtained when kinase assays were performed on membranes prior to fractionation by affinity chromatography. These results, taken with other biochemical data, indicate that A-431 membranes contain a kinase activity that is a domain of the glycoprotein that contains the EGF binding site and that the membranes also contain another tyrosine-specific kinase or kinases that have an average size of approximately 60,000 daltons.
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PMID:Molecular size of the epidermal growth factor receptor-kinase as determined by radiation inactivation. 298 12


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