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Query: EC:2.7.11.1 (protein kinase)
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Proline-directed protein kinase (PDPK) is characterized as a cytoplasmic oncogenic serine/threonine kinase that is activated by growth factor-mediated mechanisms and is proposed to function in mammalian somatic cells as an S phase promoting factor. The present study was undertaken to assess the hypothesis that p34cdc2/p58cyclinA PDPK is a physiologically relevant form of the p34cdc2 protein kinase that phosphorylates and inactivates the product of the retinoblastoma/osteosarcoma tumor susceptibility gene (Rb protein). In the course of these studies it was determined (fortuitously) that the p34cdc2/p58cyclinA PDPK purified from the cytosol of FM3A mouse mammary carcinoma cells was 'contaminated' by several high molecular weight substrate proteins that essentially co-purified with the protein kinase, one of which was identified as the Rb protein itself (p105Rb). High-resolution fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) revealed that the Rb protein co-purified with a particular subset of the PDPK heterodimer, i.e. with a single species of the 58 kDa cyclinA doublet. The subset of PDPK associated with the Rb protein exhibited somewhat lower specific enzyme activity, as judged by in vitro kinase assays and comparative Western blotting. Immunoprecipitation studies confirmed that p105Rb is physically associated with the p34cdc2/p58cyclin A PDPK. Further studies confirmed that the underphosphorylated Rb protein (p105Rb) present in G1 lysates of synchronized human MG63 osteosarcoma cells could be readily phosphorylated by purified PDPK in vitro, resulting in the characteristic shift in the apparent molecular mass (SDS-PAGE) of the Rb protein that is reported to accompany the hyperphosphorylation and functional inactivation of this protein. Moreover, the induction of the cyclin A subunit of PDPK in these synchronized MG63 cells was found to be closely correlated with the cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation of the Rb protein. From these studies it is concluded that the growth factor-sensitive PDPK is a physiological Rb kinase, which may function to inactivate the Rb protein in vivo.
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PMID:Co-purification of p34cdc2/p58cyclin A proline-directed protein kinase and the retinoblastoma tumor susceptibility gene product: interaction of an oncogenic serine/threonine protein kinase with a tumor-suppressor protein. 153 45

The intracellular events which are involved in controlling the G1 to S phase transition during the eucaryotic cell cycle are important to define in order to understand the mechanisms by which mitogenic and growth arrest-inducing agents control cell growth. Because a change in protein kinase activity is associated with the initial response of cells to mitogenic stimulants and growth factors, we used a kinase renaturation assay to identify specific protein kinases which are modulated as human T cells make the G1 to S phase transition after mitogenic stimulation with lectin. We identified four protein serine/threonine kinases of 180, 97, 85, and 38 kilodaltons which are increased in activity as these cells enter S phase. A-55 kDa serine/threonine kinase (PK55) was shown to have maximal activity during G0 and its activity was reduced by 95% upon movement into S phase. PK55 is inducible in human T cells by removal of interleukin 2 and low serum incubation which arrests cells in G1 phase, indicating that it is closely associated with G1 phase growth arrest. Furthermore, a similar PK55 activity was induced upon growth arrest in HL-60 cells treated with dimethyl sulfoxide and in Daudi cells treated with interferon alpha. Because the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PK-A) family has been shown to be antiproliferative to lectin stimulated T cells, we were interested in determining whether PK55 was in fact an isozyme of PK-A. Comparative analysis using a specific peptide inhibitor of PK-A activity revealed that PK55 is catalytically distinct from PK-A. This data suggest that increases in PK55 may be associated with the growth-arrested state and further that PK55 is distinct from PK-A.
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PMID:Specific protein kinases modulated during T cell mitogenesis. Activity of a 55-kDa serine kinase is associated with growth arrest in human T cells. 153 85

We found that a preparation of the 90-kDa heat shock protein, HSP90, purified to apparent homogeneity, contains a serine/threonine kinase which phosphorylates HSP90. The protein kinase was identified as casein kinase II (CKII) according to its properties. The protein kinase was separable from HSP90 by adsorption to heparin-Sepharose or phosphocellulose. CKII was coimmunoprecipitated with HSP90 by anti-HSP90 antibodies from cell extracts. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation analysis revealed that an addition of anti-HSP90 antibodies to cell extracts induces a shift of the sedimentation peak of CKII toward the bottom of a centrifuge tube. These results suggest that CKII is associated with HSP90 in cell lysates at low salt conditions. Furthermore, the CKII.HSP90 complex was reconstituted from purified HSP90-free CKII and CKII-free HSP90. In a buffer at low ionic strength, CKII forms large aggregates, but HSP90 dissociates the aggregates. Finally, we found that HSP90 activates CKII; an addition of HSP90 to CKII dramatically increased phosphorylation of exogenous substrates as well as the CKII beta subunit. Taken altogether, these observations suggest that CKII is structurally and functionally active when it forms a complex with HSP90.
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PMID:The 90-kDa heat shock protein, HSP90, binds and protects casein kinase II from self-aggregation and enhances its kinase activity. 155 11

Stimulation of the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor results in phosphorylation and activation of cytosolic Raf-1 serine/threonine kinase. Herein, we report that enzymatically active Raf-1 is physically associated with the IL-2 receptor beta chain (p75) in T-cell blasts. Following stimulation with IL-2, Raf-1 dissociates from the IL-2 receptor complex and translocates to the cytosol. Genistein, a protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor, prevents the dissociation of enzymatically active Raf-1 from the ligand-stimulated IL-2 receptor complex. These data favor a model of IL-2 receptor activation in which an IL-2-activated protein tyrosine kinase phosphorylates the IL-2 receptor and/or receptor-bound Raf-1. Following tyrosine phosphorylation, enzymatically active Raf-1 dissociates from the IL-2 receptor and translocates into the cytosol.
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PMID:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) induces tyrosine kinase-dependent translocation of active raf-1 from the IL-2 receptor into the cytosol. 163 73

MAP (mitogen-activated protein) kinase is shown to phosphorylate baculovirally expressed Raf-1 in vitro, generating one major tryptic phosphopeptide which co-migrated with a peptide from Raf-1 32P-labelled in situ. This peptide also undergoes an insulin-dependent increase in labelling. Thus the serine/threonine kinase Raf-1 may be a substrate for MAP kinase in vivo.
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PMID:Raf-1 is a potential substrate for mitogen-activated protein kinase in vivo. 165 Jan 88

Engagement of membrane IgM on a number of human and murine B-cell lines induced activation of a Mn(2+)-preferring serine/threonine kinase that phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP-2) in vitro. B-cell MAP-2 kinase (MAP-2K) activity could be fractionated into two peaks by sequential DEAE and hydrophobic chromatography. Although peak I included two tyrosine phosphoproteins of molecular mass 36 and 38 kDa, peak II showed a single 42-kDa tyrosine phosphoprotein (pp42). Since all kinase activity could be removed from peak II material over an antiphosphotyrosine immune affinity column, it suggests that pp42 is identical with lymphoid MAP-2K. Although peak I activity showed a similarity to peak II with regard to its preference for Mn2+, sensitivity to phosphatase exposure, and resistance to a range of common serine kinase inhibitors, it is not clear whether these activities are related. MAP-2 kinase activity could also be induced by treatment with the phorbol ester, phorbol myristate 13-acetate, suggesting that protein kinase C may also be involved with MAP-2K regulation. Although MAP-2K activity reached a peak response within minutes of receptor ligation, there were differences in the rates of dephosphorylation of pp42 and decline of MAP-2K activity in different B-cell lines. The tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, vanadate, transformed a rapidly reversible MAP-2K response in BAL 17.2 cells into a sustained state of activation that resembled the kinetics of activation in WEHI-231 cells. The latter finding implies involvement of a tyrosine phosphatase, which opposes the effect of an inducing tyrosine kinase.
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PMID:Stimulation of B-cells via the membrane immunoglobulin receptor or with phorbol myristate 13-acetate induces tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of a 42-kDa microtubule-associated protein-2 kinase. 165 69

Sequences encoded by the first exon of BCR that bind to the ABL SH2 domain are essential for the activation of the ABL tyrosine kinase and transforming potential of the chimeric BCR-ABL oncogene. The normal cellular BCR gene encodes a 160,000 dalton phosphoprotein associated with a serine/threonine kinase activity, but it shows only weak dispersed homologies to protein kinases. p160c-BCR was purified to apparent homogeneity as an oligomer of greater than 600,000 daltons that contains autophosphorylation activity and transphosphorylation activity for several protein substrates. A region containing paired cysteine residues within the 426 amino acids encoded by the first exon of BCR is essential for its novel phosphotransferase activity, which overlaps with the strong SH2-binding regions. The recent demonstration of a GTPase-activating function within the C-terminal portion of BCR suggests that the protein kinase and SH2-binding domains may work in concert with other regions of the molecule in intracellular signalling processes.
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PMID:The BCR gene encodes a novel serine/threonine kinase activity within a single exon. 165 98

We have isolated cDNA molecules encoding a protein with the characteristic sequence elements that are conserved between the catalytic domains of protein kinases. This protein is apparently a serine/threonine kinase and is most closely related to the amino-terminal half of the ribosomal protein S6 kinase II first characterized in Xenopus eggs (42% overall identity and 56% identity in the predicted catalytic domain). However, it clearly differs from S6 kinase II in that it has only one, rather than two predicted catalytic domains and a deduced molecular mass of 59,109 Da. We propose that is may be more related to, or identical, with, the mitogen-inducible S6 kinase of molecular mass 65-70 kDa described in mammalian liver, mouse 3T3 cells and chicken embryos. Remarkable structural features of the cDNA-encoded polypeptide are a section rich in proline, serine and threonine residues that resemble the multiphosphorylation domains of glycogen synthase and phosphorylase kinase alpha subunit, and a characteristic tyrosine residue in the putative nucleotide-binding glycine cluster which, by analogy to cdc2 kinase, is a potential tyrosine phosphorylation site.
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PMID:cDNA encoding a 59 kDa homolog of ribosomal protein S6 kinase from rabbit liver. 169 10

The protein kinase MAP kinase, also called MAP2 kinase, is a serine/threonine kinase whose activation and phosphorylation are induced by a variety of mitogens, and which is thought to have a critical role in a network of protein kinases in mitogenic signal transduction. A burst in kinase activation and protein phosphorylation may also be important in triggering the dramatic reorganization of the cell during the transition from interphase to mitosis. The interphase-metaphase transition of microtubule arrays is under the control of p34cdc2 kinase, a central control element in the G2-M transition of the cell cycle. Here we show that a Xenopus kinase, closely related to the mitogen-activated mammalian MAP kinase, is phosphorylated and activated during M phase of meiotic and mitotic cell cycles, and that the interphase-metaphase transition of microtubule arrays can be induced by the addition of purified Xenopus M phase-activated MAP kinase or mammalian mitogen-activated MAP kinase to interphase extracts in vitro.
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PMID:In vitro effects on microtubule dynamics of purified Xenopus M phase-activated MAP kinase. 170 78

Activation of protein synthesis is required for quiescent cells to transit the cell cycle, and seems to be mediated in part by phosphorylation of the 40S ribosomal protein, S6. A mitogen-activated S6 kinase of relative molecular mass 70,000 (70K) has been isolated from mouse fibroblasts as well as from avian, rat and rabbit tissues. Comparison of complementary DNA sequences shows that this enzyme is distinct from S6 kinase II (92K) found in Xenopus eggs and fibroblasts. Both kinases are activated by serine/threonine phosphorylation, suggesting that at least one serine/threonine kinase links receptor tyrosine kinases with S6 kinases. A candidate for this link is MAP2 kinase, which is rapidly activated by tyrosine/threonine phosphorylation following mitogenic stimulation. Incubation of MAP2 kinase from insulin-treated 3T3-L1 adipocytes with phosphatase-inactivated S6 kinase II from Xenopus leads to partial reactivation and phosphorylation of the enzyme. These and other findings have led to the suggestion that MAP2 kinase also activates the 70K S6 kinase. Here we refute this idea by showing that the two kinases lie on distinct signalling pathways.
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PMID:MAP2 kinase and 70K S6 kinase lie on distinct signalling pathways. 170 81


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