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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

We undertook to extend the in vitro lifespan of epithelial cell cultures useful for the study of the cellular defect underlying cystic fibrosis (CF). Primary cultures from sweat glands of four CF and four non-CF and from nasal polyps of one non-CF and two CF individuals were transformed using a chimaeric virus, Ad5/SV40 1613 ori-. The extended lifespans ranged from 20 to more than 250 population doublings beyond that of the primary cultures. Despite some degree of aneuploidy (as assayed by total cellular DNA content) all samples tested retained at least one copy of the region of chromosome 7 containing the CF gene (as assayed by probing with flanking DNA markers). Epithelial characteristics, including an epithelioid morphology, tight junctions and desmosomes, apical microvilli, keratin networks, and dome formation were positive in the majority of cells examined, although variably expressed. All cells tested demonstrated outwardly rectifying chloride channels by patch clamp, with some from non-CF cells responsive to the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. The cells were used for DNA transfection assays with selectable marker genes in appropriate vectors, in order to develop methodology for assaying the function of the CF gene product and the effects of mutations.
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PMID:Transformed sweat gland and nasal epithelial cell lines from control and cystic fibrosis individuals. 169 27

Keratins, constituent proteins of intermediate filaments of epithelial cells, are phosphoproteins containing phosphoserine and phosphothreonine. We examined the in vitro phosphorylation of keratin filaments by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, protein kinase C and Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. When rat liver keratin filaments reconstituted by type I keratin 18 (molecular mass 47 kDa; acidic type) and type II keratin 8 (molecular mass 55 kDa; basic type) in a 1:1 ratio were used as substrates, all the protein kinases phosphorylated both of the constituent proteins to a significant rate and extent, and disassembly of the keratin filament structure occurred. Kinetic analysis suggested that all these protein kinases preferentially phosphorylate keratin 8, compared to keratin 18. The amino acid residues of keratins 8 and 18 phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase or protein kinase C were almost exclusively serine, while those phosphorylated by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II were serine and threonine. Peptide mapping analysis indicated that these protein kinases phosphorylate keratins 8 and 18 in a different manner. These observations gave the way for in vivo studies of the role of phosphorylation in the reorganization of keratin filaments.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of keratin intermediate filaments by protein kinase C, by calmodulin-dependent protein kinase and by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. 170 97

The phosphorylating system by protein kinases in living cells has been emphasized on its biological importance especially in the responses of cells to environmental changes via humoral transmitters. In the epidermal cells, only phosphorylase was clarified to be activated in the phosphorylating system by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (cAMP-PK) through the adenylate cyclase-cAMP system. In the present study, keratin, which is the most abundant and important constituent of the epidermis was focussed whether it could be a substrate protein of phosphorylation by protein kinase. Pig epidermis was separated into basal, lower spinous, upper spinous, and horny cells and keratin was extracted from each layer. Phosphorylation of keratin was determined in cell free assay system by counting the radioactivity of 32P which was incorporated into keratin with the presence of partially purified pig epidermal cAMP-PK, cAMP, and [gamma-32P] ATP. Phosphorylated keratin was analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. The results were as follows, pig epidermal keratin was phosphorylated by cAMP-PK, and that 60,000 and 51,000 dalton polypeptides constituting basal and spinous cell keratins were phosphorylated but not 65,000 and 56,000 dalton polypeptides which were found only in spinous cell keratin, in addition, there existed a difference of phosphorylation potential among keratins from various strata. Horny cell keratin was most strongly phosphorylated and upper spinous cell, lower spinous cell, basal cell keratins, were phosphorylated in order of intensity. Therefore it was assumed that keratin phosphorylation may play an important role in the dynamics of keratin biosynthesis and its maturation.
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PMID:[An experimental study of epidermal keratin phosphorylation --epidermal keratin as a substrate protein of cAMP-dependent protein kinase]. 242 26

Five monoclonal antibodies recognizing different keratin polypeptides in immunoblotting or different epithelial cell types in complex tissues were studied for their suitability as reagents for the differential diagnosis of primary and secondary malignant epithelial liver tumors. The broad specificity keratin antibodies lu-5 and KL-1 stained all epithelial liver neoplasms. In contrast the antibodies CK-7 (Ker-7-specific), CK-2 (Ker-18-specific) and KA-4 (Ker-19-specific in liver) allow these neoplasms to be divided into three groups: Hepatocellular carcinomas were CK-2-positive and CK-7-negative. Cholangiocellular carcinomas, liver metastases of extrahepatic bile duct carcinomas, liver metastases of a ductal carcinoma of breast, and a follicular thyroid carcinoma were stained positively by CK-2, CK-7, and KA-4. In 1 of 6 hepatocellular carcinomas neoplastic hepatocytes were focally labeled by KA-4. In a focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver modified hepatocytes were decorated not only by CK-2 but also by CK-7 and KA-4. Liver metastases of colorectal adenocarcinomas and of a carcinoid tumor were stained positively by CK-2 and KA-4 but not by CK-7.
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PMID:Keratin polypeptides in malignant epithelial liver tumors. Differential diagnostic and histogenetic aspects. 243 41

The major sites of phosphorylation have been determined on the human keratin intermediate filament keratin 1 (type II) chain expressed in terminally differentiating epidermis. A total of nine phosphate sites were found, involving 1 threonine and 8 serine residues, and were localized to end domain sequences. The sites identified corresponded to major sites of phosphorylation as determined by direct quantitation of O-phosphoserine. Since the tissue was cultured with [32 P] orthophosphate only briefly, labeling occurred primarily by turnover, so that information on the dynamics of phosphorylation was also obtained. The degrees and specific activities (that is, turnover rates) of phosphorylation of these sites varied widely between different isoelectric variants (phosphate isomers) of keratin 1 chains and correlated with their locations on the chain: those sites on the more exposed E1 and E2 subdomains were fully phosphorylated and turning over at high rates, while a site near the end of the rod domain in a presumably more confined location was only slightly phosphorylated and turning over at low rate. The nature of the sequences around the phosphorylated residues indicates that cAMP-dependent and probably other protein kinase activities operate simultaneously in intact normal epidermal tissue. The correlation between the degrees and rates of turnover of phosphorylation with the locations on the chain may have an important bearing on the functional role of phosphorylation of the keratin intermediate filaments in this tissue.
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PMID:The dynamic phosphorylation of the human intermediate filament keratin 1 chain. 245 46

During cellular remodeling that accompanies cornification of epidermal cells, the highly phosphorylated protein, profilaggrin, is dephosphorylated and proteolytically cleaved to filaggrin, the keratin matrix protein. Using rat filaggrin phosphorylated by bovine casein kinase II (CK II) as a substrate, we have partially purified a phosphatase from rat epidermis which dephosphorylates rat profilaggrin in vitro. Anion exchange, hydroxylapatite, and gel filtration chromatography yielded a 100-fold purification of phosphatase from a low-salt extract. Further purification led to loss of activity; therefore, only the partially purified phosphatase was characterized. Two forms of the phosphatase, with molecular weights of approximately 170 and 40 kDa, were resolved during gel filtration. The 170-kDa form could be converted to the 40-kDa form in the presence of dithiothreitol. Both forms had pH optima of 6.6, and were strongly inhibited by NaCl (50% inhibition at 35-40 mM). Neither form hydrolyzed para-nitrophenylphosphate or dephosphorylated casein or the synthetic peptide arg3-glu3-thr-glu3, which were phosphorylated by casein kinase II. The two forms were similarly inhibited by known inorganic phosphatase inhibitors, with 22%-36% inhibition by 0.1 mM Na+/K+ tartrate, 55%-60% inhibition by 0.1 mM NaF, and 75% inhibition by 0.1 mM Na pyrophosphate. Para-chloromercuribenzoate also inhibited the activity, suggesting that reduced thiols may be important in catalysis. One mM calcium chloride altered the activity in a complex manner depending on the pH, suggesting a possible role for calcium in regulating enzyme activity.
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PMID:Characterization of an epidermal phosphatase specific for filaggrin phosphorylated by casein kinase II. 284 73

The biochemical characteristics of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in calf-snout epidermis were investigated. The activity of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase was higher in the lower layer than the upper layer of epidermis. The supernatant of homogenates of the lower layer of calf-snout epidermis was fractionated by DEAE-cellulose chromatography and contained two major peaks of protein kinase activity stimulated by cyclic AMP. This chromatographic pattern is similar to that referred to as Type I and Type II of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in bovine muscle. Both peaks of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in calf-snout epidermis could phosphorylate keratin polypeptides in vitro. The phosphorylation reaction was activated by cyclic AMP and inhibited by a heat-stable inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. When Type II enzyme of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase was incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP in the absence of substrates, such as histone or keratin polypeptides, the 54,000 dalton protein was phosphorylated and this autophosphorylation was inhibited by the addition of 10 microM cyclic AMP. These results suggest that cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in calf-snout epidermis has properties similar to those in bovine muscle and plays an important role in the phosphorylation of keratin polypeptides in calf-snout epidermis.
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PMID:Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in calf-snout epidermis. 375 34

The phosphorylation of keratin polypeptides was examined in calf snout epidermis. When slices of epidermis were incubated in the medium containing 32Pi, the radioactivity was incorporated into several proteins. The predominant phosphorylated proteins migrated in SDS-polyacrylamide gels with apparent molecular weights between 49000 and 69000 and coincided with keratin polypeptides. The extent of keratin phosphorylation was not altered in the presence of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or reagents which elevate intracellular cyclic AMP. When homogenates of epidermis were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP, keratin polypeptides were the predominant species phosphorylated as was also observed in epidermal slices. The presence of cyclic AMP or heat-stable inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in the reaction mixture did not affect the phosphorylation of keratin polypeptides, although the phosphorylation of exogenously-added histone was stimulated and inhibited, respectively, by these additions. Keratin polypeptides extracted from calf snout epidermis by 8 M urea were phosphorylated by incubation with [gamma-32P]ATP and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase from calf snout epidermis or bovine heart. No proteins were phosphorylated without the addition of the enzymes. The presence of cyclic AMP in the reaction mixture stimulated the keratin phosphorylation, and further addition of heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor reduced this stimulation.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of keratin polypeptides. 619 23

Analysis by means of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (IEF) of [32P]orthophosphate-labeled proteins from mitotic and interphase transformed amnion cells (AMA) has shown that keratins IEF 31 (Mr = 50,000; Hela protein catalogue number), 36 (Mr = 48,500), 44 (Mr = 44,000), 46 (Mr = 43,500), as well as vimentin (IEF 26; Mr = 54,000) are phosphorylated above their interphase level during mitosis. Similar studies of normal human amnion epithelial cells (AF type) confirmed the above observations except in the case of keratin IEF 44 whose relative proportion was too low to be analyzed. Immunofluorescent staining of methanol/acetone-treated mitotic transformed amnion cells with a mouse polyclonal antibody elicited against human keratin IEF 31 showed a dotted staining (with a fibrillar background) in all of the cells in late anaphase/early telophase (characteristic "domino" pattern) and in a sizeable proportion of the cells in other stages of mitosis. Normal mitotic amnion cells on the other hand showed a fine fibrillar staining of keratins at all stages of mitosis. Similar immunofluorescent staining of normal and transformed mitotic cells with vimentin antibodies revealed a fibrillar distribution of vimentin in both cell types. Taken together the results indicate that the transformed amnion cells may contain a factor(s) that modulates the organization of keratin filaments during mitosis. This putative factor(s), however, is most likely not a protein kinase as transformed amnion cells and amnion keratins are modified to similar extents. It is suggested that in general the preferential phosphorylation of intermediate-sized filament proteins during mitosis may play a role in modulating the various proposed associations of these filaments with organelles and other cellular structures.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of keratin and vimentin polypeptides in normal and transformed mitotic human epithelial amnion cells: behavior of keratin and vimentin filaments during mitosis. 619 64


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