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Query: EC:2.7.11.11 (AMPK)
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Ovarian cytosol from pseudopregnant rats was heated to 80-90 degrees C for 2 min and precipitated proteins removed by centrifugation. The supernatant of the heated ovarian cytosol contained no protein kinase C activity but when added to a control preparation containing protein kinase C, enzyme activity was increased to 200% of control. The stimulatory activity was stable to heating for 10 min, was retained on a centrifugal filtration device with a 100,000 M(r) cut-off, did not affect cAMP-dependent protein kinase, was not extractable in petroleum ether or chloroform/methanol (2:1), and enhanced the phosphorylation of protein kinase C-specific peptide substrates. The stimulatory factor was calcium-dependent and could substitute for phosphatidylserine and diacylglycerol in the protein kinase C assay. This stimulatory factor may provide a mechanism whereby the response of protein kinase C to hormonal activation could be regulated by the cell.
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PMID:Protein kinase C stimulatory activity in the pseudopregnant rat ovary. 132 55

(Rp)-Adenosine 3',5'-monophosphorothioate ((Rp)-cAMPS) is a highly specific antagonist of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase from eukaryotic cells and is a very poor substrate for phosphodiesterases. It is therefore a useful tool for investigating the role of cAMP as a second messenger in a variety of biological systems. Taking advantage of stereospecific inversion of configuration around the alpha-phosphate during the adenylate cyclase reaction, we have developed a method for the preparative enzymatic synthesis of the Rp diastereomer of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphorothioate ((Rp)-cAMPS) from the Sp diastereomer of adenosine 5'-O-(1-thiotriphosphate) ((Sp)-ATP alpha S). The adenylate cyclase from Bordetella pertussis, partially purified by calmodulin affinity chromatography, cyclizes (Sp)-ATP alpha S approximately 40-fold more slowly than ATP, but binds (Sp)-ATP alpha S with about 10-fold higher affinity than ATP. The triethylammonium salt of the reaction product can be purified by elution from a gravity flow reversed-phase C18 column with a linear gradient of increasing concentrations of methanol. Yields of the pure (Rp)-cAMPS product of a synthesis with 2 mg of substrate are about 75%.
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PMID:Enzymatic synthesis of the cAMP antagonist (Rp)-adenosine 3',5'-monophosphorothioate on a preparative scale. 217 77

Human sperm-free seminal plasma (HSP) contains inhibitors (I) of the seminal plasma histone kinase activity (HK). One I is dialyzable and the other I is nondialyzable and precipitable by dialysis of HSP against a hypotonic buffer. When the nondialyzable, precipitable I fraction is resolubilized, it inhibits HK in a concentration-dependent manner. Sephadex G-25 column chromatography of whole HSP resolves I in both the void (Vo) and inclusion (Vi) volumes. Rechromatography of the VoI resolves I solely in the Vo. These and other data suggest that the ViI does not originate from the VoI, and that both I activities represent separate molecular entities. VoI was further characterized and found to be heat labile, trypsin and neuraminidase insensitive, and alpha-chymotrypsin sensitive. VoI is not soluble in CHCl3 or CHCl3:CH3OH (2:1) and is not adsorbed by charcoal. Chromatography of VoI on Sephadex G-100 yields a broad peak of I that migrates just past the Vo. VoI has no detectable cyclic AMP (cAMP) binding activity and VoI activity is not affected by coincubation of VoI and HK with cAMP. VoI also does not bind to zinc-chelate or phenothiazine affinity columns. These data suggest that VoI is protein in nature with properties distinct from the class of previously described protein kinase inhibitors. Although the identity of VoI is not known, it does not appear to be the regulatory subunit of a cAMP-dependent protein kinase, calsemin or a zinc binding protein.
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PMID:Characterization of a seminal plasma-associated inhibitor of human seminal plasma protein kinase. 298 35

Phospholamban, the putative protein regulator of the Ca2+ pump of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum, was purified to apparent homogeneity from canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles by selective extraction with sodium cholate, followed by adsorption to calcium oxalate, solubilization in Zwittergent 3-14, and specific elution from p-hydroxymercuribenzoate-agarose. Phospholamban, isolated in the dephosphorylated state, was purified 80-fold in 15% yield (approximately 2 mg of phospholamban/g of sarcoplasmic reticulum protein). Nondissociated phospholamban exhibited an apparent Mr = 25,000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. Partially dissociated phospholamban, induced by boiling in sodium dodecyl sulfate, exhibited five distinct mobility forms in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, of apparent molecular weights between 5,000-6,000 and 25,000. Phospholamban was phosphorylated to a level of 190 nmol of Pi/mg of protein by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, consistent by minimum stoichiometry with a subunit molecular weight of approximately 5,000. Phospholamban prepared by the present method was different in several respects from the proteins that have been isolated in other laboratories. Pure phospholamban was cysteine rich, containing 6 residues/100 amino acid residues. Dephosphorylated phospholamban was strongly basic with a pI = 10; phosphorylation decreased the pI to approximately 6.7. Pure phospholamban (and phospholamban present in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles) was not readily extracted into acidified chloroform/methanol, suggesting that the protein does not behave as an acidic proteolipid. The purified protein was highly antigenic. Phospholamban was localized by immunochemical methods to cardiac membranes enriched in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but was absent from sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes prepared from fast skeletal muscle. The method described for isolation of cardiac phospholamban is highly reproducible and relatively simple, and should be useful for further detailed studies designed to probe the molecular structure of the protein.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of phospholamban from canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. 315 60

Stimulation of secretion in exocrine cells by agonists involving cAMP as second messenger is associated with the phosphorylation of a specific membrane-associated 22.4-kDa protein (protein III) (Jahn et al.). Here it is shown by subcellular fractionation of rat parotid gland lobules that protein III is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum. The submicrosomal fractions containing protein III, also contain the ATP-dependent microsomal calcium pump activity. Protein III in microsomal subfractions can be phosphorylated in vitro with catalytic subunit from cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Phosphorylated protein III contains exclusively P-serine. Protein III can be removed from ER-membranes with acid chloroform-methanol or Triton X-114, but not by high salt wash indicating that it is tightly associated with the membranes. Protein III is smaller than phospholamban and, in contrast to phospholamban, resistant to heating in SDS. A relationship between phosphorylation of protein III and microsomal calcium sequestration is discussed.
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PMID:Specific phosphorylation of a protein in calcium accumulating endoplasmic reticulum from rat parotid glands following stimulation by agonists involving cAMP as second messenger. 631 93

Separation of phosphorylated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) fragments by polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis in the presence of Na-DS revealed that the radioactivity is distributed in protein zones with molecular weights of 95,000 and 6000-8000. The phosphorylation of the protein with m. w. of 95,000 is Ca2+-dependent. The tryptic hydrolysis of the phosphorylated SR fragments from fast skeletal muscles results in a loss of radioactivity by 60-70%; phospholipase C from Clostridium welchii reduces the labelled phosphate content by 40-50%. The cAMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitor decreases the phosphorylation of both substrates. The substrate of phosphorylation with m. w. of 6000-8000 is not stained with Amidoschwartz 10B or Coumassie brilliant blue. Extraction by an acidified chlorophorm--methanol mixture results in a proteolipid with specific radioactivity exceeding that of the original preparation of phosphorylated SR membranes 3-4-fold. Thin-layer chromatography on Silufol plates and Silicagel KSK showed that the proteolipid is not chromatographically homogeneous after 2-fold precipitation by diethyl ether and is localized in a band with Rf varying from 0.6 to 0.8. The fluorescence spectrum of the proteolipid in a chlorophorm--methanol--HCl solution is represented by an assymmetrical structure-free band with a maximum at 350 nm. A possible role of phosphorylase b and proteolipid in manifestation of the functional activity of the SR fragments is discussed.
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PMID:[Characterization of endogenous phosphorylation substrates of sarcoplasmic reticulum fragments from fast skeletal muscles of the rabbit]. 711 8

Uptakes of radioactive C1- or 1- by gastric microsomal vesicles were stimulated 2- to 8-fold by AtP. The sensitivity of those uptakes to a C1- in equilibrium OH- ionophore and to osmotic swelling suggested they were due to transport rather than to binding. The ATP effect was labile, but dithiothreitol and methanol improved its stability. The stimulation of anion transport required magnesium; GTP and UTP were less potent than ATP whereas ADP and AMP had no effect. The apparent Km for ATP was estimated to be 2 X 10(-4) M at 22 degrees C. The rate of the ATP-dependent transport showed saturation-type kinetics, with half-maximal uptake at 10 mM for I- and 15 mM for C1-. Nonradioactive C1-, I-, and SCN- competed with 125I- uptake while SO42- did not. K+ valinomycin increased the ATP-dependent C1- uptake. The thermostable inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinases inhibited the effect of ATP. These results suggest the existence of an anion conductance, permeant to C1-, I-, and SCN- and nonpermeant to SO42-, which could be linked to a cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
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PMID:C1-transport in gastric micorsomes. An ATP-dependent influx sensitive to membrane potential and to protein kinase inhibitor. 744 May 65

cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is composed of two genetically distinct catalytic (C) and regulatory (R) subunits. There are two different classes of PKA, designated as type I and type II, which contain distinct R subunits (RI or RII, respectively) but share a common C subunit. Enhanced expression of type I PKA has been correlated with cell proliferation and neoplastic transformation. Detection of the different PKA subunits is usually performed by photoaffinity labeling with 8-N3-32P-cAMP or by radioimmunolabeling techniques. Both techniques are time consuming and require a high number of cells and the use of radioactive reagents. Using the MCF-10A normal human mammary cell line infected with a recombinant retroviral vector containing the human RI alpha gene (MCF-10A RI alpha), we have developed a flow-cytometric assay to detect the intracellular content of RI alpha protein in human cells. MCF-10A and MCF-10A RI alpha cells were fixed in 1.5% paraformaldehyde at 37 degrees C for 15 min and permeabilized by methanol and acetone (1:1) at -20 degrees C for 5 min before staining with a specific IgG2a MoAb followed by a FITC-conjugate rabbit-anti mouse IgG. This procedure was also successfully utilized to recognize RI alpha protein content in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Flow-cytometric detection of the RI alpha subunit in human cells is feasible and allows the study of the role of type I PKA in cell growth and neoplastic transformation.
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PMID:Flow-cytometric detection of the RI alpha subunit of type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase in human cells. 816 27

We have purified from human placenta a low molecular mass substance that inhibits cAMP-dependent protein kinase and activates protein kinase C. This protein kinase regulator was purified in three steps: (1) homogenizing placentas in chloroform/methanol and extracting the regulator into water; (2) eluting a strong anion exchange high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column with a quaternary gradient; and (3) eluting a reversed-phase HPLC column with a binary gradient. The regulator was found to be highly purified by HPLC, thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry with a molecular mass of 703 Daltons by the latter procedure. The physical and biochemical properties of this protein kinase regulator suggest that it is a phospholipid but it did not co-elute by HPLC or by TLC with any of the known phospholipid activators of protein kinase C.
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PMID:A low molecular weight substance purified from human placenta inhibits cAMP-dependent protein kinase and activates protein kinase C. 914 20

Micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection has been developed for a protein kinase assay. This protein kinase assay could readily determine the phosphorylation activity of substrate peptide kemptide using cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) as a model enzyme. Kemptide and phosphorylated kemptide could be reacted with 7-fluoro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-F) as a fluorescence derivatization reagent for LIF detection by directly adding NBD-F into the PKA enzymatic reaction mixture. These derivatives of substrate and product were separated and detected within the analysis time of 5 min by micellar electrokinetic mode using a mixture of sodium dodecylsulfate and methanol as a running buffer. Good linearity of the peak response of the phosphorylated kemptide was obtained over the range of 1-20 mU/tube of PKA in the assay. The relative standard deviation of the peak areas of the phosphorylated kemptide using 2, 5 and 10 mU/tube of PKA were calculated to <10.4%, indicating that the assay was reproducible. Also, IC(50) values of six PKA inhibitors, the K(i) value and the inhibition pattern of one inhibitor, which were calculated to estimate by the variation of the peak area of the phosphorylated kemptide using 5 mU/tube of PKA, were consistent with the published data. The sensitivity of the assay was higher than that of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for PKA phosphorylation activity, as IC(50) values, K(i) value, and the inhibition mechanism of inhibitors could be estimated using one-tenth amounts of PKA, compared with that of ELISA. The MEKC-LIF is expected to be very useful for protein kinase assay and its application to the estimation of inhibitors because this method does not entail experimentally troublesome procedures such as the preparation of antibody or fluorescence-labeled substrate.
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PMID:Enzyme assay for protein kinase using micellar electrokinetic chromatography with laser-induced fluorescence detection. 1288 7


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