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Query: EC:2.7.11.13 (protein kinase C)
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Highly degenerate oligonucleotide primers designed from regions conserved between protein-serine kinases have been used specifically to amplify human epithelial (HeLa) cDNA by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Of several novel cDNA fragments encoding putative kinases thus isolated, one was further characterised. Screening of human fibroblast and bovine brain cDNA libraries with the PCR fragment yielded several clones with an open reading frame of 479 amino acids containing all of the conserved sequence motifs of protein-serine kinases. The predicted protein was most similar to the protein kinase C (PKC)/cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) families and its gene has thus been termed pkb. Expression of the pkb gene is general but highest in brain, heart and lung. Translation of pkb RNA in vitro generated a 57-kDa protein (PKB) recognised by antisera raised to a bacterially expressed PKB/TrpE fusion protein. Transfection of COS cells with the kinase cDNA resulted in the synthesis of a 60-kDa protein which was partially purified by Mono Q anion-exchange chromatography. Column fractions containing PKB-immunoreactive protein exhibited elevated histone H1 kinase activity compared with similar fractions from control cells, demonstrating the enzymatic activity of this protein kinase.
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PMID:Molecular cloning and characterisation of a novel putative protein-serine kinase related to the cAMP-dependent and protein kinase C families. 153 86

Protein kinase B (PKB, also named as Akt or RAC-protein kinase), that is activated by cellular stress such as heat shock and hyperosmotic treatment, was revealed to be activated by oxidative stress and by chemical stressors of CdCl2 and NaAsO2 by measuring the activity of the enzyme immunoprecipitated from the transfected COS-7 cells. Upon stress treatment, a 30-kDa phosphoprotein was co-immunoprecipitated with PKB from the cells metabolic labeled with [32P]orthophosphate. The phosphoprotein was identified as Hsp27, a small heat shock protein, by immunoblot analysis and co-immunoprecipitation. The association of Hsp27 was specific to PKB as the heat shock protein was not co-immunoprecipitated with other protein kinases such as protein kinase C and PKN. When the cells were treated with H2O2, PKB was activated gradually and the association of Hsp27 with PKB increased concurrently with the enhancement of PKB activity. In heat-shocked cells, activation of PKB and the association of Hsp27 were detected immediately after the treatment, and the association of the heat shock protein decreased while PKB kept stimulated activity when the cells were further incubated at 37 degrees C. These results suggest that Hsp27 is involved in the activation process of PKB in the signal transduction pathway of various forms of stress.
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PMID:Activation of protein kinase B (Akt/RAC-protein kinase) by cellular stress and its association with heat shock protein Hsp27. 923 90

Insulin regulates the expression of multiple hepatic genes through a conserved insulin response sequence (IRS) (CAAAAC/TAA) by an as yet undetermined mechanism. Protein kinase B/Akt (PKB/Akt), a member of the PKA/PKC serine/threonine kinase family, functions downstream from phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI3K) in mediating effects of insulin on glucose transport and glycogen synthesis. We asked whether PKB/Akt mediates sequence-specific effects of insulin on hepatic gene expression using the model of the insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) promoter. Insulin lowers IGFBP-1 mRNA levels, inhibits IGFBP-1 promoter activity, and activates PKB/Akt in HepG2 hepatoma cells through a PI3K-dependent, rapamycin-insensitive mechanism. Constitutively active PI3K and PKB/Akt are each sufficient to mediate effects of insulin on the IGFBP-1 promoter in a nonadditive fashion. Dominant negative K179 PKB/Akt disrupts the ability of insulin and PI3K to activate PKB/Akt and to inhibit promoter activity. The IGFBP-1 promoter contains two IRSs each of which is sufficient to mediate sequence-specific effects of insulin, PI3K, and PKB/Akt on promoter activity. Highly related IRSs from the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and apolipoprotein CIII genes also are effective in this setting. These results indicate that PKB/Akt functions downstream from PI3K in mediating sequence-specific effects of insulin on the expression of IGFBP-1 and perhaps multiple hepatic genes through a conserved IRS.
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PMID:Protein kinase B/Akt mediates effects of insulin on hepatic insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 gene expression through a conserved insulin response sequence. 949 82

Protein Phosphatase-1 (PP-1) appears to be the key component of the insulin signalling pathway which is responsible for bridging the initial insulin-simulated phosphorylation cascade with the ultimate dephosphorylation of insulin sensitive substrates. Dephosphorylations catalyzed by PP-1 activate glycogen synthase (GS) and simultaneously inactivate phosphorylase a and phosphorylase kinase promoting glycogen synthesis. Our in vivo studies using L6 rat skeletal muscle cells and freshly isolated adipocytes indicate that insulin stimulates PP-1 by increasing the phosphorylation status of its regulatory subunit (PP-1G). PP-1 activation is accompanied by an inactivation of Protein Phosphatase-2A (PP-2A) activity. To gain insight into the upstream kinases that mediate insulin-stimulated PP-1G phosphorylation, we employed inhibitors of the ras/MAPK, PI3-kinase, and PKC signalling pathways. These inhibitor studies suggest that PP-1G phosphorylation is mediated via a complex, cell type specific mechanism involving PI3-kinase/PKC/PKB and/or the ras/MAP kinase/Rsk kinase cascade. cAMP agonists such as SpcAMP (via PKA) and TNF-alpha (recently identified as endogenous inhibitor of insulin action via ceramide) block insulin-stimulated PP-1G phosphorylation with a parallel decrease of PP-1 activity, presumably due to the dissociation of the PP-1 catalytic subunit from the regulatory G-subunit. It appears that any agent or condition which interferes with the insulin-induced phosphorylation and activation of PP-1, will decrease the magnitude of insulin's effect on downstream metabolic processes. Therefore, regulation of the PP-1G subunit by site-specific phosphorylation plays an important role in insulin signal transduction in target cells. Mechanistic and functional studies with cell lines expressing PP-1G subunit site-specific mutations will help clarify the exact role and regulation of PP-1G site-specific phosphorylations on PP-1 catalytic function.
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PMID:Protein phosphatase-1 and insulin action. 960 13

The phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase family of enzymes is now known to be regulated by several different upstream pathways in response to virtually all growth factors and cytokines. In the past few years, the phosphoinositides phosphorylated at the 3-OH position of the inositol ring have been shown to be lipid second messengers that may directly or indirectly regulate the activity of several different serine/threonine kinases. Consistent with the many different cellular events in which PI 3-kinase plays an important role, a diverse group of serine/threonine kinases are regulated downstream of PI 3-kinases, including protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms, p70 S6 kinase, and PKB/Akt. This review summarises studies done primarily in the past few years that have begun to unravel these targets of PI 3-kinase activity.
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PMID:Downstream signalling events regulated by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity. 961 80

Phosphorylation sites in members of the protein kinase A (PKA), PKG, and PKC kinase subfamily are conserved. Thus, the PKB kinase PDK1 may be responsible for the phosphorylation of PKC isotypes. PDK1 phosphorylated the activation loop sites of PKCzeta and PKCdelta in vitro and in a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase)-dependent manner in vivo in human embryonic kidney (293) cells. All members of the PKC family tested formed complexes with PDK1. PDK1-dependent phosphorylation of PKCdelta in vitro was stimulated by combined PKC and PDK1 activators. The activation loop phosphorylation of PKCdelta in response to serum stimulation of cells was PI 3-kinase-dependent and was enhanced by PDK1 coexpression.
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PMID:Protein kinase C isotypes controlled by phosphoinositide 3-kinase through the protein kinase PDK1. 974 66

Vanadate and pervanadate (pV) are protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) inhibitors that mimic insulin to stimulate glucose transport. To determine whether phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase is required for vanadate and pV, as it is for insulin, cultured L6 myotubes were treated with vanadate and pV. The two compounds stimulated glucose transport to levels similar to those stimulated by insulin; however, while PI 3-kinase activity and the increase in the lipid products PI 3,4-bisphosphate and PI 3,4,5-trisphosphate were inhibited by wortmannin after stimulation by all three agents--insulin, vanadate, and pV--wortmannin blocked glucose transport stimulated by insulin but not vanadate or pV. Vanadate and pV stimulated the translocation of GLUTs from an intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane; this stimulation was not blocked by wortmannin, but insulin-induced GLUT translocation was inhibited. Similar results were obtained in cultured H9c2 cardiac muscle cells in which wortmannin did not inhibit glucose transport or the vanadate-induced translocation of GLUT4 in c-myc-GLUT4 transfected cells. The ser/thr kinase PKB (Akt/PKB/RAC-PK) is activated by insulin, lies downstream of PI 3-kinase, and has been implicated in signaling of glucose transport. Insulin and pV stimulated PKB activity, and both were inhibited by wortmannin. In contrast, vanadate, at concentrations that maximally stimulated glucose transport, did not significantly increase PKB activity. To determine the potential role of protein kinase C (PKC), L6 cells were incubated chronically with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) or acutely with the PKC inhibitors calphostin C and bisindolylmaleimide. There was no inhibition of glucose transport stimulation by insulin, vanadate, or pV, and a combination of wortmannin and PKC inhibitors also failed to block the effect of vanadate and pV. In contrast, disassembly of the actin network with cytochalasin D blocked the stimulation of glucose transport by all three agents. In conclusion, vanadate and pV are able to stimulate glucose transport and GLUT translocation by a mechanism independent of PI 3-kinase and PKC. Similar to that by insulin, glucose transport stimulation by vanadate and pV requires the presence of an intact actin network.
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PMID:Tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors, vanadate and pervanadate, stimulate glucose transport and GLUT translocation in muscle cells by a mechanism independent of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and protein kinase C. 979 35

Phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) is at the hub of many signalling pathways, activating PKB and PKC isoenzymes, as well as p70 S6 kinase and perhaps PKA. PDK1 action is determined by colocalization with substrate and by target site availability, features that may enable it to operate in both resting and stimulated cells.
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PMID:Intracellular signalling: PDK1--a kinase at the hub of things. 1002 76

Signal transduction plays a key regulatory role in the growth and metastatic potential of tumor cells. These signaling pathways form an interconnecting grid that serves to regulate the homeostatic, survival and invasive functions of the cell. Among the key regulatory molecules in these pathways are the serine/threonine-protein kinases A, B, and C, also known respectively as cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), Akt (PKB) and protein kinase C (PKC). These protein kinases modulate pathways associated with tumor proliferation, cell survival and multidrug resistance, and at a molecule level are likely to serve as effective targets for drug design. The unique structural features of each protein kinase have been deduced from their crystallographic structures and form unique opportunities for structure-based drug design. In addition, these protein kinases are potentially important targets for antisense oligonucleotide therapy, and therefore may provide a means of selectively inhibiting tumor proliferation and inducing apoptosis with minimal nonspecific cytotoxicity.
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PMID:The protein kinase ABC's of signal transduction as targets for drug development. 1019 43

(a) Chronic electrostimulation of fast-twitch skeletal muscles makes them resemble slow-twitch muscles. The involvement of second-messenger cascades in this muscle reprogramming is not well understood. The goal of this study was to examine protein kinase activities and calmodulin levels as a function of the duration of electrostimulation. (b) Fast-twitch rabbit muscle was subjected to continuous low-frequency electrostimulation for 2 weeks. The extensor digitorum longus was taken and examined for calmodulin concentration and cAMP-dependent (PKA). Ca(2+)-phospholipid-dependent (PKC) and Ca(2+)-calmodulin-dependent (CaM kinase or PKB) protein kinase activities. (c) Electrostimulation for 14 days led to a significant increase in total calmodulin level and PKB activity, both rising in the cytosolic fraction. Protein kinase C translocated to the membrane fraction, although total activity did not change. (d) These changes could be related with electrostimulation-induced changes in excitation-contraction coupling.
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PMID:Effect of chronic electrostimulation of rabbit skeletal muscle on calmodulin level and protein kinase activity. 1021 62


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