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Query: EC:2.7.11.1 (protein kinase)
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A revertant cell line was generated from v-raf transformed NIH/3T3 fibroblasts. These cells, termed CHP25, express a functional v-raf oncogene. However, they are non-tumorigenic, do not form colonies in soft agar and possess a flat morphology. CHP25 cells are resistant to re-transformation by sis, ras, tyrosine kinase- as well as serine/threonine kinase-encoding oncogenes suggesting that Raf functions downstream of most membrane associated signal transducers. In contrast to v-raf transformed cells, in which the endogenous Raf-1 protein kinase is constitutively activated, v-Raf in CHP25 cells does not activate endogenous Raf-1 kinase. Since mitogen regulation of Raf-1 kinase in CHP25 cells is intact, we conclude that CHP25 cells are blocked at the level of Raf-1 substrate phosphorylation. Consistent with this interpretation CHP25 cells show specific alterations of early gene induction. The serum induction of c-fos and junD as well as the serum and TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate) induction of junB and egr-1 are almost completely abolished. Only v-fos can transform CHP25, whereas c-fos, v-myc, c-jun and junB are ineffective. These data suggest that the lesion responsible for the revertant phenotype of CHP25 cells is the inability to activate the AP-1 complex. We conclude that Raf-1 signaling is essential for transformation of NIH/3T3 cells by peripheral oncogenes and for regulation of a subset of early response genes by TPA and serum growth factors.
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PMID:Raf revertant cells resist transformation by non-nuclear oncogenes and are deficient in the induction of early response genes by TPA and serum. 842 42

In this study, we characterized the molecular events involved in the activation of the ubiquitous transcription factor NF-kappa B by the viral transactivator pX. pX expression in HeLa cells determines a manyfold increase in NF-kappa B-dependent transcription, which is associated with an increase in p50/p65 heterodimer DNA-binding activity. Since the I kappa B-alpha inhibitory subunit proteolytic degradation, which follows its phosphorylation/modification, is a key event in NF-kappa B activation by different stimuli (such as growth factors, phorbol esters, tumor necrosis factor, UV irradiation, and oxygen radicals), we investigated pX effects on I kappa B-alpha, as well as the possible involvement of known signalling pathways in pX-induced NF-kappa B-dependent transcription. We observed that although pX had no direct effect on p50 or p65, it was able to restore the I kappa B-alpha-suppressed p50/p65 activity. More directly, the stable expression of pX in HeLa cells resulted in reduced levels of I kappa B-alpha in the cytoplasm. Pretreatment of the cells with H7, calphostin C, tyrphostin 25, or N-acetylcysteine did not impair the effects of pX on NF-kappa B, thus ruling out the involvement of protein kinase C, tyrosine kinases, and oxygen radicals. Finally, while most of the known NF-kappa B-activating agents converge on Raf-1 protein kinase, when Raf-1 activity is blocked by overexpression of a dominant negative mutant, the effects of pX on NF-kappa B are not impaired. Thus, we suggest that although pX is able to activate the Ras/Raf-1-signalling pathway, it triggers NF-kappa B activation by an as yet unidentified Raf-1-independent pathway.
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PMID:Hepatitis B virus pX activates NF-kappa B-dependent transcription through a Raf-independent pathway. 852 86

Spi-1/PU-1 and Spi-B are hematopoietic transcription factors, which, in vitro, display similar affinities for DNA target sequences containing the consensus binding site 5'-GGAA-3'. While the role of Spi-1 in the transcriptional regulation of B cell and myeloid specific genes has been largely demonstrated, the biological function of Spi-B still remains to be elucidated. Since Spi-B and Spi-1 are very divergent in their transactivator domain, these domains might acquire functional specificity in vivo by interacting with different co-factors and/or by undergoing different phosphorylations. First, we observed that casein kinase II phosphorylates Spi-B as well as Spi-1, in vitro. Then, by affinity chromatographies and in vitro kinase assays with fusion proteins between glutathione-S-transferase and the transactivator domain of Spi-B, two kinases were identified on their ability to interact and phosphorylate this domain; the MAP kinase ERK1 and the stress activated protein kinase JNK1. The Threonine 56 was defined as the ERK1 phosphorylation site by using phosphoamino-acid analyses and a Spi-B mutant version with the substitution T56 to A56. Strikingly, ERK1 failed to phosphorylate Spi-1, in vitro, whereas JNK1, like CK II, phosphorylated Spi-B and Spi-1. In addition, other purified Spi-B-kinase activities, unidentified as yet, display similar specificity than ERK1 for Spi-B versus Spi-1. Furthermore, the evident interaction of pRb protein with the transactivator domain of Spi-B in an unphosphorylated state disappeared when this domain was first phosphorylated in vitro either by ERK1 or by the purified Spi-B-kinase activities. Our data revealed multiple phosphorylation sites within Spi-B whose some of them appeared specific for Spi-B versus Spi-1 and which may account for differential regulation of their activities.
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PMID:Differential phosphorylations of Spi-B and Spi-1 transcription factors. 863 9

While oncoproteins encoded by small DNA tumor viruses and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent antigens facilitate G1/S progression, the EBV lytic switch transactivator Zta was found to inhibit growth by causing cell cycle arrest in G0/G1 in several epithelial tumor cell lines. Expression of Zta results in induction of the tumor suppressor protein, p53, and the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, p21 and p27, as well as accumulation of hypophosphorylated pRb. Up-regulation of p53 and p27 occurs by post-transcriptional mechanisms while expression of p21 is induced at the RNA level in a p53-dependent manner. Inactivation of pRb by transient overexpression of the human papillomavirus E7 oncoprotein indicates that pRb or pRb-related proteins are key mediators of the growth-inhibitory function of Zta. These findings suggest that EBV plays an active role in redirecting epithelial cell physiology to facilitate the viral replicative program through a Zta-mediated growth arrest function.
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PMID:The Epstein-Barr virus bZIP transcription factor Zta causes G0/G1 cell cycle arrest through induction of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors. 865 72

The experiments presented herein were designed to understand the molecular mechanism(s) by which membrane Ig (mIg)-dependent signals are integrated at the level of the junB promoter to induce gene transcription. Functional studies using chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene constructs that contained deleted 5' flanking region junB sequences identified a region located between -194 and -87 that contains an Ets binding site and a putative cAMP response element binding site (CRE-like). Point mutagenesis of the CRE-like site blocked junB promoter activation in response to mIg cross-linking in mature Bal17 B cells. Nuclear extract binding activity to a synthetic oligonucleotide containing the junB CRE-like site was detected in unstimulated B cells and was increased in response to mIg cross-linking. Binding activity was competed with unlabeled oligonucleotides that contained the junB CRE-like site or the somatostatin CRE consensus motif, the latter observation suggests that members of the activating transcription factor/CRE binding protein (CREB) family may mediate mIg-dependent junB transcription. Consistent with this interpretation, recombinant CREB and activating transcription factor proteins bound the junB CRE-like site, but did not interact with a mutant CRE-like site. Expression of a dominant negative CREB protein blocked mIg-mediated transcription from a junB CRE-like site-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene. CRE-like nucleoprotein complexes from Bal17 B cells contained constitutively bound CREB-1, which was phosphorylated on serine 133 in response to mIg cross-linking. Activating transcription factor-1 protein was also constitutively expressed in CRE-like nucleoprotein complexes. Collectively, these results suggest that components of the protein kinase A signaling pathway are recruited by mIg to induce junB transcription.
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PMID:Transcriptional regulation of the junB promoter in mature B lymphocytes. Activation through a cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate-like binding site. 868 8

Parathyroid hormone (PTH)-mediated gene activation was assessed in the osteoblast-like rat cell line ROS17/2.8 with two PTH fragments harboring distinct activating domains: PTH-(1-34) and PTH-(28-48). The PTH response of genes expressed immediate early in the cell cycle or in the osteoblast developmental sequence was investigated. In addition, subtractive cloning was used to identify genes in ROS17/2.8 cells that are activated by the two PTH domains. PTH-(1-34) immediately increased the transcript levels of c-fos and c-jun at a considerably higher rate than PTH-(28-48). A significant immediate PTH effect on osteoblastic marker genes could not be detected, with the exception of elevated ornithine decarboxylase transcript levels. However, continuous application of PTH-(1-34) increased transcript levels of the osteoblast-specific osteocalcin gene and reduced those of other osteoblastic marker genes including alkaline phosphatase and the PTH/PTH-related peptide receptor. By subtractive cloning, nine cDNAs were isolated corresponding to mRNAs directly up-regulated by PTH-(1-34) or PTH-(28-48). Among these were a cyclic phosphodiesterase, a (cytosine 5)-methyltransferase, an 80-kDa protein kinase C substrate, junB, and a novel GC-binding protein. Three cDNAs are unknown at present. Interestingly, in all cases, the efficiency of gene activation by PTH-(28-48) was substantially lower in comparison with PTH-(1-34). PTH-mediated protein kinase C signaling in ROS17/2.8 cells may therefore constitute a minor pathway in comparison with the dominant cAMP/protein kinase A cascade.
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PMID:Domain-specific gene activation by parathyroid hormone in osteoblastic ROS17/2.8 cells. 870 88

Many genes are regulated by the intracellular calcium, protein kinase C (PKC) and protein kinase A (PKA) pathways and it has been shown that these pathways synergize in some cell types, whereas they antagonize in others. Here we show that the calcium and PKC pathways suppress the effects mediated by the PKA pathway in a fibroblast cell line. The suppressing effect of elevated intracellular Ca2+ levels, but not of the PKC pathway, can be abrogated by the addition of cyclosporin A (CsA), indicating that the effect of Ca2+ is mediated by phosphatase-2B (PP-2B/calcineurin). Suppression by the PKC pathway is not mediated by the proto-oncogenes c-fos, c-jun and junB, as the co-transfection of these genes does not block the effects of the PKA stimulator 8-Br-cAMP. In addition, cotransfection with the catalytic subunit of PKA shows that the inhibitory effect of PKC occurs upstream of PKA activation.
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PMID:Down-regulation of the protein kinase A pathway by activators of protein kinase C and intracellular Ca2+ in fibroblast cells. 870

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) regulates the activity of growth-factor-induced pathways at the level of cytoplasmic kinases and nuclear transcription factors. We observed that H-89, an inhibitor of PKA, induced mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activity in a 12V-ras-transformed fibroblast cell line. In contrast, H-89 inhibited phorbol-ester-mediated induction of MAP kinase, junB messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), and collagenase mRNA in these cells. Phorbol-ester stimulation of a collagenase-promoter reporter construct was also inhibited by H-89. However, stimulation of the collagenase promoter was not inhibited by overexpression of the PKA-inhibitory protein PKI. These data suggest that H-89 inhibits the activity of an enzyme required for phorbol-ester induction of collagenase mRNA, but that this inhibition does not occur at the level of PKA.
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PMID:H-89 inhibits collagenase induction by phorbol ester through a mechanism that does not involve protein kinase A. 873 3

The capacity of various growth factors to induce c-fos expression is diminished with senescence. Because adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-mediated responses are also blunted with aging, we wondered whether cAMP-induced c-fos gene expression might be impaired with senescence. Using IMR fibroblasts, we found that prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and forskolin, stimulators of cAMP accumulation in young and senescent cells, increased abundance of c-fos and junB mRNA more in young than senescent cells. The abundance of the cAMP response element binding protein (CREB), a transcription factor which enhances gene expression when phosphorylated by protein kinase A, was markedly decreased in both whole cell and nuclear extracts of senescent cells, in both Western blotting and in gel retardation assays. Also, PGE1-induced phosphorylation of CREB by protein kinase A was markedly attenuated in senescent cells. There is a marked decrement in expression of CREB with senescence, and the results suggest the possibility that the diminished expression of CREB may contribute to altered cAMP-mediated regulation of gene expression with senescence.
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PMID:Impaired cAMP-mediated gene expression and decreased cAMP response element binding protein in senescent cells. 876 66

HIV-1 Rev transactivator is readily phosphorylated at separate regions by protein kinase CK2 and MAP kinase. Protein kinase CK1 cannot replace CK2 as phosphorylating agent and cdc2 only slowly phosphorylates Rev at one of the two sites affected by MAP kinase. Mutational analysis shows that Ser-8 and, to a lesser extent, Ser-5 are phosphorylated by CK2. In contrast, a mutation (R14TV-->EED) which suppresses Rev activity dramatically enhances Rev phosphorylation either in vitro by CK2 or in vivo, suggesting that phosphorylation by CK2 could play a role in Rev down-regulation.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of HIV-1 Rev protein: implication of protein kinase CK2 and pro-directed kinases. 880 71


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