Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: EC:2.7.11.1 (protein kinase)
 81,284 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Phosphorylation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) protein phospholamban by adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and Ca-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaM-KII) stimulates Ca-adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity and SR Ca transport, but the role of CaM-KII-dependent phosphorylation is not well defined. We studied the PKA- and CaM-KII-dependent regulation of SR Ca transport in digitonin-permeabilized rabbit ventricular myocytes. SR Ca uptake and free Ca concentration were measured on line with indo 1 and Ca electrodes in the presence of 20 microM ruthenium red and 10 mM oxalate. neither N5,2'-w-dibutyryl-cAMP (up to 500 microM) nor the nonhydrolyzable cAMP agonist adenosine 3'5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate sodium salt (Sp-cAMP[S]; up to 275 microM) affected the maximum uptake rate (Vmax) or the dissociation constant (Kd) for Ca uptake. However, the PKA inhibitor H-89 significantly increased Kd (e.g., from 307 +/- 67 to 826 +/- 62 nM Ca at 40-65 microM H-89) without significantly affecting Vmax. Both CaM-KII inhibitors, KN-62 (60 microM) and a CaM-KII inhibitory peptide (10 microM), significantly decreased Vmax from 11.95 +/- 0.5 to 9.48 +/- 0.6 nmol.mg-1.min-1 and from 10.95 +/- 1.72 to 7.37 +/- 0.94 nmol.mg-1.min-1, respectively, without consistently changing Kd. The effects of H-89 on Kd and of KN-62 on Vmax were prevented by a monoclonal antibody to phospholamban 2D12 (consistent with the antibody removing the inhibitory effect of phospholamban on the SR Ca-ATPase).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
 ...
PMID:Protein kinase inhibitors reduce SR Ca transport in permeabilized cardiac myocytes. 806 37

We investigated the effects of age and nafidrofuryl oxalate (Naftidrofuryl), a 5-HT2 antagonist, on neurotransmission and transduction systems in the gerbil hippocampus using quantitative autoradiography. [3H]Quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), [3H]cyclohexyl-adenosine (CHA), [3H]MK-801, and [3H]muscimol were used to label muscarinic acetylcholine, adenosine A1, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), and gamma-aminobutyric acid-A (GABAA) receptors, respectively. [3H]PN200-110 labeled L-type Ca2+ channels. [3H]Forskolin, [3H]cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), [3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu), and [3H]inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) were used to label adenylate cyclase, cAMP-dependent protein kinase, protein kinase C (PKC), and IP3 receptors, respectively. Approximately 20% reductions in [3H]QNB, [3H]forskolin, and [3H]PDBu binding were observed in the hippocampus of 9-month-old gerbils in comparison with 5-week-old gerbils. Treatment with Naftidrofuryl (10 mg/kg, i.p., once a day for 7 days) ameliorated these reductions. No changes were found in [3H]CHA, [3H]MK-801, [3H]muscimol, [3H]PN200-110, [3H]cAMP, and [3H]IP3 binding. The results suggest that Naftidrofuryl may have beneficial effects on the age-related alterations in signal transmission and transduction systems in the brain. Because the acetylcholine system, adenylate cyclase, and PKC are considered to be involved in learning and memory processes, the result may have clinical implications.
 ...
PMID:Effects of naftidrofuryl oxalate, a 5-HT2 antagonist, on neurotransmission and transduction systems in the gerbil hippocampus. 806 66

Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) plays a dominant role in cellular Ca2+ homeostasis by storing and releasing Ca2+. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Stains All staining reveals that at least six Ca(2+)-binding proteins are contained in cardiac SR vesicles, five of which have now been identified. These five SR proteins comprise a set of high capacity Ca(2+)-binding proteins, localized to the SR lumen, that exhibit properties expected for physiological Ca2+ stores. In this study, we have purified and isolated cDNA clones for the sixth major Stains All blue-staining protein of dog cardiac SR and identified it as GRP94 (glucose-regulated protein, M(r) = 94,000). Previously, this prominent Ca(2+)-binding component has only been described in non-muscle endoplasmic reticulum. Cardiac GRP94 co-sedimented with cardiac SR vesicles and all previously described SR markers and was completely contained within the SR lumen. GRP94, like several other SR Ca(2+)-binding proteins, was a substrate for casein kinase II and was phosphorylated at two or more sites located near the two ends of the molecule. A low level of endogenous casein kinase II activity was found in crude preparations of cardiac SR but did not co-purify with SR vesicles after calcium oxalate loading, suggesting that casein kinase II phosphorylation in vivo occurs at a site other than the SR.
 ...
PMID:GRP94 resides within cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles and is phosphorylated by casein kinase II. 811 36

We investigated the effects of the nonionic detergent octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E8) on the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump in cardiac microsomes in view of its specific effects on different ATP-accelerated steps in the catalytic cycle of the Ca-ATPase in leaky fast skeletal muscle microsomes. At low concentrations of MgATP2- (< 2.5 microM), a nonsolubilizing concentration of added C12E8 (15 microM) increased apparent Vmax(MgATP) of oxalate-facilitated calcium uptake associated with MgATP2- binding to the high affinity catalytic site. An ATP induced acceleration of calcium uptake, attributable to regulatory nucleotide binding, was seen between 2 and 3 microM MgATP2- in both C12E8-treated and control microsomes. These effects of C12E8 are similar to those seen previously with trypsin treatment of microsomes [Lu, Y.-Z., Xu, Z.-C., & Kirchberger, M.A. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 3105-3111]. However, at a saturating Ca2+ between 3 and 10 microM MgATP2-, C12E8 produced a greater reduction in the magnitude of the ATP-induced acceleration of calcium uptake seen with trypsin. At 1 mM MgATP2-, C12E8 and trypsin as well as protein kinase A-catalyzed microsomal phosphorylation all increased the Ca2+ affinity of the pump, but only the latter two treatments significantly increased apparent Vmax(Ca). In fact in trypsin-treated and phosphorylated microsomes, C12E8 reduced Vmax(Ca) to close to the control values; it reduced Vmax(Ca) only slightly in control microsomes. Under our experimental conditions, comparable effects of 15 microM C12E8 on calcium uptake were absent in fast skeletal muscle microsomes, which lack phospholamban.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
 ...
PMID:Effects of a nonionic detergent on calcium uptake by cardiac microsomes. 817 81

Purification and sequencing of proteins from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles have provided a framework for the study of SR function. Included among the SR proteins so far investigated are a collection of intralumenal proteins that stain blue with the protein dye Stains-All in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. A single prominent blue staining SR protein of apparent M(r) = 90,000 (Band VII), however, has remained uncharacterized. In the work described here, purification of Band VII from dog cardiac SR vesicles, along with amino acid sequencing and cDNA cloning, identified this protein as calnexin, a homologue of calreticulin recently described in dog pancreatic microsomes. Using ryanodine-mediated calcium oxalate loading of SR vesicles followed by density gradient centrifugation, we have shown that calnexin is a bona fide SR protein and an integral constituent of both junctional and free SR vesicles. Calnexin was found to be a substrate for casein kinase II and was phosphorylated at two distinct sites localized to the carboxyl- and amino-terminal ends of the molecule. Enrichment of calnexin in cardiac SR vesicles indicates a role for calnexin involving the specialized function of the SR membrane.
 ...
PMID:Purification of a 90-kDa protein (Band VII) from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Identification as calnexin and localization of casein kinase II phosphorylation sites. 842 70

This comparative study investigates the relationship between sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium(Ca2+)-ATPase transport activity and phospholamban (PLB) phosphorylation in whole cardiac homogenates of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and their parent, normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) strain during early postnatal development at days 1, 3, 6, 12 and at day 40 to ascertain any difference in SR Ca2+ handling before the onset of hypertension. At day 1, the rate of homogenate oxalate-supported Ca2+ uptake was significantly higher in SHR than in WKY (0.25 +/- 0.02 vs 0.12 +/- 0.01 nmoles Ca2+/mg wet ventricular weight/min, respectively; p < 0.001). This interstrain difference disappeared with further developmental increase in SR Ca2+ transport. Western Blot analysis and a semiquantitative ELISA did not reveal any difference in the amount of immunoreactive PLB (per mg of total tissue protein) between strains at any of the ages studied. In addition, levels of phosphorylated PLB formed in vitro in the presence of radiolabelled ATP and catalytic (C) subunit of protein kinase A did not differ between SHR and WKY at days 1, 3, 6 and 12. At day 40, C subunit-catalyzed formation of 32P-PLB was reduced by 66% (p < 0.001) in SHR when compared to age-matched WKY. In the early postnatal period between day 1 and 12 SR Ca(2+)-transport values were linearly related to the respective 32P-PLB levels of both SHR and WKY rats. The results indicate that cardiac SR of SHR can sequester Ca2+ at a much higher rate immediately after birth compared to WKY rats. The disappearance of this interstrain difference with further development suggests that some endogenous neuroendocrine or nutritional factor(s) from the hypertensive mother may exert an influence upon the developing heart in utero resulting in a transiently advanced maturation of the SR Ca2+ transport function in SHR pups at the time of birth.
 ...
PMID:Early postnatal changes in sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium transport function in spontaneously hypertensive rats. 897 40

This study investigates sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium-(Ca2+) transport ATPase (SERCA2a) and phospholamban (PLB) in cultured spontaneously contracting neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (CM) to ascertain the function of both SR proteins under various culture conditions. The two major SR proteins were readily detectable in cultured CM by immunofluorescent microscopy using specific anti-SERCA2 and anti-PLB antibodies. Double labeling technique revealed that PLB-positive CM also labeled with anti-SERCA2. Coexpression of SERCA2 and PLB in CM was supported by measurement of cell homogenate oxalate-supported Ca2+ uptake which was completely inhibited by thapsigargin and stimulated by protein kinase A-catalyzed phosphorylation. Under serum-free conditions, incubation of CM with the SERCA2a expression modulator 3,3', 5-triiodo-L-thyronine (100 nM, 72 h) resulted in elevated Ca2+ uptake of +33%. Specific Ca2+ uptake activity was not altered if insulin was omitted from the serum-free culture medium but total SR Ca2+ transport activity was reduced under this culture condition. The results indicate that primary culture of spontaneously contracting neonatal rat CM can be employed as a useful model system for investigating both short- and long-term mechanisms determining the Ca2+ re-uptake function of the SR under defined culture conditions.
 ...
PMID:Influence of different culture conditions on sarcoplasmic reticular calcium transport in isolated neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. 982 23

ATP-dependent (45)Ca uptake in rat brain microsomes was measured in intracellular-like media containing different concentrations of PO(4) and oxalate. In the absence of divalent anions, there was a transient (45)Ca accumulation, lasting only a few minutes. Addition of PO(4) did not change the initial accumulation but added a second stage that increased with PO(4) concentration. Accumulation during the second stage was inhibited by the following anion transport inhibitors: niflumic acid (50 microM), 4,4'-dinitrostilbene-2, 2'-disulfonic acid (DNDS; 250 microM), and DIDS (3-5 microM); accumulation during the initial stage was unaffected. Higher concentrations of DIDS (100 microM), however, inhibited the initial stage as well. Uptake was unaffected by 20 mM Na, an activator, or 1 mM arsenate, an inhibitor of Na-PO(4) cotransport. An oxalate-supported (45)Ca uptake was larger, less sensitive to DIDS, and enhanced by the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A (40 U/ml). Combinations of PO(4) and oxalate had activating and inhibitory effects that could be explained by PO(4) inhibition of an oxalate-dependent pathway, but not vice versa. These results support the existence of separate transport pathways for oxalate and PO(4) in brain endoplasmic reticulum.
 ...
PMID:Separate entry pathways for phosphate and oxalate in rat brain microsomes. 1083 46

Failing cardiac hypertrophy is associated with an inadequate sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function. The hypothesis was examined that pressure overloaded hearts fail to increase SR Ca(2+) uptake rate proportionally to the hypertrophy and that carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 inhibition by etomoxir ((+/-)-ethyl 2[6(4-chlorophenoxy)hexyl] oxirane-2-carboxylate) can counteract this process. Severe left ventricular pressure overload was induced in rats by constricting the ascending aorta for 8, 10, 14 and 28 weeks leading to cardiac hypertrophy (+62 - +103% of sham-operated rats) and pulmonary congestion. Homogenate oxalate-facilitated SR Ca(2+) uptake rate g wet wt(-1) was reduced (P<0.05) by 29.9+/-1.8% irrespective of phospholamban phosphorylation (in the presence of catalytic subunit of protein kinase A) and inhibition of SR Ca(2+) release channel by ruthenium red. SERCA2 protein level was reduced (P<0.05) by 30.4+/-0.8%. SR Ca(2+) uptake rate was inversely correlated (P<0.05) with left ventricular weight but was not affected by the occurrence of pulmonary congestion. Because SR Ca(2+) uptake rate of whole ventricles was not reduced, a hypertrophy proportional dilution of SR Ca(2+) uptake has to be inferred which precedes pulmonary congestion. Treatment with etomoxir (15 mg kg body wt(-1) day(-1) for 10 weeks) did not affect left ventricular weight but decreased (P:<0.05) the right ventricular hypertrophy related to pulmonary congestion. In parallel, SR Ca(2+) uptake rate of left ventricle and myosin isozyme V(1) were increased (P<0.05). Etomoxir represents a candidate approach for prevention of heart failure by inducing a hypertrophy proportional increase in SR Ca(2+) uptake rate.
 ...
PMID:Sarcoplasmic reticulum function and carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 inhibition during progression of heart failure. 1113 55

Interaction of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystals with renal cells has been shown to result in altered gene expression, DNA synthesis, and cell death. In the current study the role of a stress-specific p38 MAP kinase-signaling pathway in mediating these effects of COM crystals was investigated. Exposure of cells to COM crystals (20 microg/cm(2)) rapidly stimulated strong phosphorylation and activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAP kinase) and re-initiation of DNA synthesis. Inhibition of COM crystal binding to the cells by heparin blocked the effects of COM crystals on p38 MAPK activation. We also show that specific inhibition of p38 MAPK by 4-(4-fluorophenyl)-2-(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)-5-(4-pyridyl) imidazole (SB203580) or by overexpression of a dominant negative mutant of p38 MAP kinase abolishes COM crystal-induced re-initiation of DNA synthesis. The inhibition is dose-dependent and correlates with in situ activity of native p38 MAP kinase, determined as mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase-2 (MAPKAP kinase-2) activity in cell extracts. In summary, inhibiting activation of p38 MAPK pathway abrogated the DNA synthesis in response to COM crystals. These data are the first demonstrations of activation of the p38 MAPK signaling pathway by COM crystals and suggest that, in response to COM crystals, this pathway transduces critical signals governing the re-initiation of DNA synthesis in renal epithelial cells.
 ...
PMID:COM crystals activate the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signal transduction pathway in renal epithelial cells. 1212 71


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >>