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Na+, K+-ATPase activity of homogenates prepared from cauda epididymal golden hamster sperm increased after the addition of cGMP (50 microM), monobutyryl cGMP (0.5 microM) or cGMP-dependent protein kinase (0.94 micrograms/ml). Addition of monobutyryl cAMP (0.5 microM) or purified catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (1.26 micrograms/ml) inhibited the activity of the Na+, K+-ATPase. Preincubation with a partially purified preparation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitor (75 micrograms/ml) stimulated the activity of the Na+, K+-ATPase, and this stimulation was decreased by the addition of 5 microM monobutyryl cAMP. It is not yet known whether direct and/or indirect mechanisms are involved, but these results are the first to describe such opposing effects by cyclic nucleotide-mediated processes on a Na+, K+-ATPase activity.
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PMID:Initial evidence for the modification of hamster sperm Na+, K+-ATPase activity by cyclic nucleotide-mediated processes. 630 96

Calmodulin level and cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity of ram germ cells at different stages of spermatogenesis have been determined. Calmodulin levels decrease during maturation. Simultaneously, calmodulin localization changes during cell differentiation. In round, elongating, and elongated spermatids, calmodulin is closely associated with the developing acrosome; in spermatozoa, it becomes present in the postacrosome, the neck region and the tail. Protein kinase activity is relatively low in testicular cells but increases dramatically during epididymal maturation of spermatozoa. A concerted regulation by cAMP and Ca2+ of biochemical events in spermatogenic cells and spermatozoa is suggested.
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PMID:Evolution of Ca2+- and cAMP-dependent regulatory mechanisms during ram spermatogenesis. 631 46

The effects of adenylate cyclase inhibition on the transport of glucose and fructose and their incorporation into glycogen were investigated in order to assess the extent to which lowered cAMP levels can take part in the various components of glycogen synthesis regulation in isolated rat epididymal adipocytes. The dose-response characteristics of (R)-N-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (PIA), a potent and specific adenylate cyclase inhibitor, on glycogen synthesis were compared with those effectively inhibiting lipolysis, a measure of functional cAMP levels. PIA had no effect on basal glucose or fructose transport but stimulated glucose and fructose incorporation into glycogen. Their respective incorporation was 10 and 69% of that achieved in the presence of insulin. These effects of PIA were shown to be in part the result of increased glycogen synthase I activity. PIA was 20% as effective as insulin in this action. Thus, were insulin to lower cAMP levels and/or inhibit cAMP-dependent protein kinase, this action would be irrelevant to glucose transport but would contribute to the stimulation of glycogen metabolism. However, an additional mechanism(s) involving neither increased glucose transport nor lowered cAMP levels is required to account for the full action of insulin. Fat cells in the absence of medium glucose and in the presence of 10(-7) M PIA and adenosine deaminase constitute a system functionally depleted of cAMP where this mechanism can be studied in isolation.
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PMID:Glycogen synthesis stimulation by adenylate cyclase inhibition in rat epididymal adipocytes. 634 22

In the accompanying report (Visconti, P.E., Bailey, J.L., Moore, G.D., Pan, D., Olds-Clarke, P. and Kopf, G.S. (1995) Development, 121, 1129-1137) we demonstrated that the tyrosine phosphorylation of a subset of mouse sperm proteins of M(r) 40,000-120,000 was correlated with the capacitation state of the sperm. The mechanism by which protein tyrosine phosphorylation is regulated in sperm during this process is the subject of this report. Cauda epididymal sperm, when incubated in media devoid of NaHCO3, CaCl2 or bovine serum albumin do not display the capacitation-associated increases in protein tyrosine phosphorylation of this subset of proteins. This NaHCO3, CaCl2 or bovine serum albumin requirement for protein tyrosine phosphorylation can be completely overcome by the addition of biologically active, but not inactive, cAMP analogues. Addition of the active cAMP analogues to sperm incubated in media devoid of NaHCO3, CaCl2 or bovine serum albumin overcomes the inability of these media to support capacitation, as assessed by the ability of the cells to acquire the pattern B chlortetracycline fluorescence, to undergo the zona pellucida-induced acrosome reaction and, in some cases, to fertilize metaphase II-arrested eggs in vitro. The effects of the cAMP analogues to enhance protein tyrosine phosphorylation and to promote capacitation appears to be at the level of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), since two specific inhibitors of this enzyme (H-89 and Rp-cAMPS) block the capacitation-dependent increases in protein tyrosine phosphorylation in sperm incubated in media supporting capacitation. Capacitation, as assessed by the aforementioned endpoints, also appears to be inhibited by H-89 in a concentration-dependent manner. These results provide further evidence for the interrelationship between protein tyrosine phosphorylation and the appearance of the capacitated state in mouse sperm. They also demonstrate that both protein tyrosine phosphorylation and capacitation appear to be regulated by cAMP/PKA. Up-regulation of protein tyrosine phosphorylation by cAMP/PKA in sperm is, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of such an interrelationship between tyrosine kinase/phosphatase and PKA signaling pathways.
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PMID:Capacitation of mouse spermatozoa. II. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation and capacitation are regulated by a cAMP-dependent pathway. 753 69

Based upon recent reports that the mRNA from the regulatory (R) RI beta subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) was expressed in testicular extracts, we determined whether testicular extracts exhibited RI beta protein. To accomplish this goal, we initially determined the fundamental labeling and ionic characteristics of recombinant RI beta. Recombinant RI beta eluted from DEAE-cellulose with a salt concentration (of 0.075 M) equivalent to its elution position from soluble mouse brain extracts with catalytic subunit-free RI alpha. As predicted by its amino acid sequence homology to RI alpha, recombinant RI beta was not phosphorylated by PKA but was labeled specifically with 8-azido-adenosine 3':5'-[32P]monophosphate (8-N3[32P]cAMP). Additionally, RI antisera reacted equally with RI alpha (47 kDa) and recombinant RI beta (53 kDa). However, recombinant RI beta exhibited an unexpectedly basic pI of 6.65-6.85. By using a pH gradient for isoelectric focussing that allowed for clear focussing of 8-N3[32P]cAMP-labeled recombinant RI beta, 8-N3[32P]cAMP-labeled RI beta was readily detected by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in rat brain particulate extracts and exhibited a pI equivalent to that of recombinant RI beta. The 53-kDa RI beta was undetectable either by its immunoreactivity or upon photoaffinity labeling with 8-N3[32P]cAMP by one or two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in soluble or particulate extracts of testes of 14-day-old, 45-day-old, or adult rats or in epididymal sperm. However, 8-N3[32P]cAMP-labeled RI beta was detected, albeit in very small levels, by two-dimensional electrophoresis upon separation of PKAs in testes of 14-day-old rats by DEAE-cellulose chromatography but was absent in equivalent extracts from adult rat testes. These results demonstrate that the unexpectedly basic pI of RI beta allows for its clear separation by two-dimensional electrophoresis from the RII proteins and therefore allows for its unambiguous identification. Further studies, however, are required to resolve the basis for the apparent disparity in testis RI beta mRNA and protein.
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PMID:Characterization of recombinant RI beta and evaluation of the presence of RI beta protein in rat brain and testicular extracts. 803 21

Cyclic AMP-dependent changes in phosphorylation of epididymal mouse sperm suspensions were examined in media designed to manipulate capacitation and the expression of parameters associated with full fertilizing ability, i.e. hyperactivated motility and the acrosome reaction. After initial assessment of cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity in frozen-thawed and lyophilized sperm suspensions using exogenous substrate, phosphorylation of endogenous sperm phosphoproteins was examined using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by autoradiography or immunoblotting. Numerous phosphoproteins were detected in both incapacitated and capacitated suspensions, the majority of which were probably concerned with motility; full expression of fertilizing ability appeared to involve an increase in the amount of endogenous phosphorylation as deduced from the decreased amount of 32P incorporation in these suspensions. The addition of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase inhibitors, H8 and PKI (6-22) amide, demonstrated that most of the phosphoproteins detected were phosphorylated in a cAMP-dependent manner. Of particular interest was a phosphoprotein with an M(r) of about 95,000 which was consistently observed in capacitated suspensions. Evidence suggests that this may be phosphorylated on tyrosine residues, since the inclusion of orthovanadate, a phosphoryltyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, altered phosphorylation of this protein. Furthermore, immunodetection using the antiphosphotyrosine antibody, PY-20, identified five proteins with approximate M(r) 116,000, 105,000, 95,000, 86,000, and 76,000, and possibly a sixth at 54,000. The 95,000 protein was consistently diminished in ionophore-treated spermatozoa, indicating that the protein was located in the acrosomal cap region. These results suggest that the protein may be the same phosphotyrosine-containing protein as that described by Leyton and Saling (1989) which has been proposed to play a role in acrosomal exocytosis.
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PMID:Cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation of epididymal mouse sperm proteins during capacitation in vitro: identification of an M(r) 95,000 phosphotyrosine-containing protein. 838 23

cAMP is important for the initiation of mammalian sperm motility. Previously we established that a type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase is tightly associated with the fibrous sheath of rat sperm. This unique cytoskeletal structure surrounds the 9+2 axonemal network in the principal piece of the flagellum. Association of the kinase to the fibrous sheath is mediated via its regulatory subunit, RII. An RII-binding overlay procedure was used to document that RII could specifically associate with fibrous sheath polypeptides of 120 and 80 kDa. In this study, we report the cloning of a rat testis-specific, developmentally regulated, RII-binding protein (TAKAP-80). A 1.2-kb cDNA clone, isolated by screening a rat testis expression library with 32P-labeled RII, hybridized to a 1.8-kb mRNA transcript present exclusively in testis. This transcript appeared at detectable levels at 30 days after birth. Over the next 10 days the mRNA levels increased greatly. This time interval corresponds to the initiation of spermiogenesis. The complete nucleotide sequence of TAKAP-80 cDNA was obtained by polymerase chain reaction and contained a continuous open reading frame of 502 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence showed a clear demarcation of charged and hydrophobic amino acid residues. Amino acids 1-147 of the protein contained 45% charged residues, with lysine and arginine predominating. Similarly, amino acids 268-502 also contained a high percentage of charged amino acids (35%). In contrast, amino acids 148-267 were mostly hydrophobic and contained clusters of a repeating PXXP motif where X was predominantly valine and alanine or sometimes proline. The 1.2-kb cDNA clone was inserted into the pRSET vector and expressed as a His6 tag fusion protein in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein was soluble and bound RIIalpha, RIIbeta and type IIalpha holoenzyme by the RII-binding overlay procedure. Deletion analysis revealed that the high-affinity interaction site for RII was contained within amino acids 258-378 of TAKAP-80. Antibodies prepared against the fusion protein recognized an 80-kDa protein present in the urea-insoluble particulate fraction of rat testis and in purified fibrous sheath preparations isolated from rat epididymal sperm. Levels of the 80-kDa immunoreactive protein were significantly higher in mature (60 days old) compared with immature (30 days old) rat testis, correlating with the mRNA levels.
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PMID:Cloning and characterization of a testis-specific, developmentally regulated A-kinase-anchoring protein (TAKAP-80) present on the fibrous sheath of rat sperm. 920 34

Here we report that the beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol increases the activity of the stress-activated kinase p38 MAPK over 10-fold in freshly isolated rat epididymal fat cells. Stimulation of the kinase was rapid, sustained for at least 60 min and sensitive to the specific p38 MAPK inhibitor, SB 203580. Half-maximal stimulation of p38 MAPK by isoproterenol occurred at 13 nM isoproterenol. The cell permeable cyclic AMP analogue, chlorophenylthio-cyclic AMP increased p38 MAPK activity to a similar extent to isoproterenol, suggesting that the effect of the beta-adrenergic agonist is mediated via increases in the activity of cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinase. Although it had little or no effect on the activity of c-Jun N-terminal kinase, isoproterenol and a number of other treatments which activated p38 MAPK were found to stimulate AMP-activated protein kinase in fat cells. Activation of AMPK and p38 MAPK were not, however, found to be directly linked.
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PMID:The activation of p38 MAPK by the beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol in rat epididymal fat cells. 984 39

The aim of this work was to identify the 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (PFK-2/FBPase-2) isozyme(s) present in white adipose tissue. Ion-exchange chromatography of PFK-2 from rat epididymal fat pads yielded an elution pattern compatible with the presence of both the L (liver) and M (muscle) isozymes. This was consistent with a study of the phosphorylation of the purified adipose tissue enzyme by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, by specific labelling of the preparation with [2-32P]fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and by reaction with antibodies. Characterization of the PFK-2/FBPase-2 mRNAs showed that mature adipocytes express the mRNA that codes for the L isozyme and the two mRNAs that code for the M isozyme. Preadipocytes expressed mRNA that codes for the M isozyme. Incubation of rat epididymal fat pads with adrenaline stimulated glycolysis but decreased fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations without significant inactivation of PFK-2. These results support previous findings showing that fructose 2,6-bisphosphate is not involved in the adrenaline-induced stimulation of glycolysis in white adipose tissue.
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PMID:Expression and regulation of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose- 2,6-bisphosphatase isozymes in white adipose tissue. 1009 61

The enzymic regulation of triacylglycerol breakdown in skeletal muscle is poorly understood. Western blotting of muscle fibres isolated by collagenase treatment or after freeze-drying demonstrated the presence of immunoreactive hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL), with the concentrations in soleus and diaphragm being more than four times the concentrations in extensor digitorum longus and epitrochlearis muscles. Neutral lipase activity determined under conditions optimal for HSL varied directly with immunoreactivity. Expressed relative to triacylglycerol content, neutral lipase activity in soleus muscle was about 10 times that in epididymal adipose tissue. In incubated soleus muscle, both neutral lipase activity against triacylglycerol (but not against a diacylglycerol analogue) and glycogen phosphorylase activity increased in response to adrenaline (epinephrine). The lipase activation was completely inhibited by anti-HSL antibody and by propranolol. The effect of adrenaline could be mimicked by incubation of crude supernatant from control muscle with the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, while no effect of the kinase subunit was seen with supernatant from adrenaline-treated muscle. The results indicate that HSL is present in skeletal muscle and is stimulated by adrenaline via beta-adrenergic activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. The concentration of HSL is higher in oxidative than in glycolytic muscle, and the enzyme is activated in parallel with glycogen phosphorylase.
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PMID:Expression of hormone-sensitive lipase and its regulation by adrenaline in skeletal muscle. 1033 90


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