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Query: EC:2.7.11.13 (protein kinase C)
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Okadaic acid (OA), a specific serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitor, downregulated tropoelastin formation and elastin mRNA levels in a dose-related and cycloheximide-sensitive fashion in cultured lung fibroblasts. Treatment with a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor at high concentrations did not alter elastin mRNA levels, however. Nuclear run-on analysis indicated that OA primarily suppressed elastin gene expression through a transcriptional mechanism. In contrast to its effects on elastin expression, OA downregulated alpha 1(I) mRNA to significantly lesser degrees. The mechanism by which OA decreased elastin mRNA levels did not appear to involve protein kinase C or share the signaling pathway of IL-1 beta. Prolonged treatment with phorbol ester promoted the inhibitory effects of OA on elastin, as did shorter treatment with IL-1 beta. Moreover, transient transfection studies indicated that OA and IL-1 beta do not act through the same cis-acting element in the elastin promoter. Finally, unlike the transient effects of IL-1 beta, OA induced persistent inhibition of elastin expression by a transcriptional mechanism. Taken together, these data indicate that serine/threonine protein phosphorylation can regulate the amount and composition of extracellular matrix secreted by fibroblasts into the interstitium of the lung.
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PMID:Effect of okadaic acid on elastin gene expression in interstitial lung fibroblasts. 899 64

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulates the lipoxygenase metabolism of linoleic acid to 13(S)-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (HODE) in Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) fibroblasts. 13(S)-HODE is a potent and specific enhancer of EGF-dependent DNA synthesis in normal phenotypic SHE cells (supB+), but is inactive in variant SHE cells that have lost tumor suppressor gene function (supB-). EGF activation of quiescent SHE cells results in increased levels of 13-HODE esterified in cellular phospholipid and triglyceride. Steric analyses suggest that this metabolite is generated in part by direct oxygenation of membrane lipids by an n-6 lipoxygenase. In studies on the uptake and mobilization of 13-HODE in SHE cells, we observed EGF to stimulate a time- and dose-dependent incorporation and reacylation of the mono-hydroxy linoleate metabolite. The level of 13-HODE uptake in supB+ cells is twice that of supB-. Among classes of phospholipids, radiolabeled 13-HODE is esterified predominantly into phosphatidylcholine and this distribution pattern is similar for both SHE cell lines. Pretreatment of cells with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor methyl-2,5-dihydroxycinnamate blocks EGF-stimulated HODE incorporation. Inhibition of tyrosine phosphatase activity with vanadate potentiates HODE uptake in supB+ but not supB- cells. Moreover, activation of protein kinase C with phorbol ester stimulates HODE incorporation in the supB+ line only. The differential effects of EGF on 13-HODE uptake and mobilization in supB+ and supB- cells appear to be related to loss of the tumor suppressor phenotype. EGF-stimulated generation of esterified 13-HODE may be an important biological process in determining the mechanism and site of HODE interaction with the mitogenic signaling pathway.
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PMID:Epidermal growth factor-stimulated production of esterified 13(S)-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid is associated with tumor suppressor phenotype in Syrian hamster embryo fibroblasts. 903 99

Phosphorylation of CD45, a transmembrane protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase), has been proposed to mediate docking of signaling proteins and to modulate PTPase activity. To study the role of phosphorylation in CD45, in vivo phosphorylation sites of CD45 from 70Z/3.12 cells were identified using 32P labeling, trypsin digestion, two-dimensional peptide mapping, high performance liquid chromatography, phosphoamino acid analysis, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, and specific enzymatic degradation. Eight phosphopeptides, a through h, were isolated and four phosphorylation sites were identified. All four phosphorylation sites were in the membrane-distal PTPase domain (D2) and the C-terminal tail and none were in the membrane-proximal PTPase domain (D1). One site, Ser(P)939 peptide h, was in the D2 domain and, by comparison to the three-dimensional structure of PTP1B, is predicted to lie at the apex of the substrate binding loop. Ser939 was the only in vitro phosphorylation site for protein kinase C among the phosphorylation sites identified. Four of the C-terminal peptides identified (d, e, f, and g) spanned the same sequence and were derived from the same phosphorylation site in the C-terminal tail, Ser1204. Peptide a was derived from the intact C terminus and comprised a mixture of monophosphorylated peptides containing either Ser(P)1248 or Thr(P)1246. Knowledge of the precise phosphorylation sites of CD45 will lead to the design of experiments to define the role of phosphorylation in PTPase activity and in signaling.
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PMID:Identification of in vivo phosphorylation sites of CD45 protein-tyrosine phosphatase in 70Z/3.12 cells. 911 Oct 75

Tyrosine phosphorylation represents a balance between the activity of tyrosine kinases and phosphatases. We have demonstrated recently that reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) produced by the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase enhance tyrosine phosphorylation in neutrophils. As tyrosine phosphatase activity can be regulated by oxidants, we sought to determine whether endogenously generated ROI inhibited the activity of the leukocyte tyrosine phosphatase CD45. Addition of guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTPgammaS) to electropermeabilized neutrophils, conditions known to activate the oxidase, inhibited CD45, as determined by immunoprecipitation and an in vitro phosphatase assay. That this inhibition was a consequence of activation of the oxidase was supported by three observations: 1) GTPgammaS-induced inhibition of CD45 was NADPH dependent; 2) pretreatment of cells with diphenylene iodonium, an oxidase inhibitor, partially prevented the inhibition; and 3) inhibition of CD45 was diminished markedly in neutrophils from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) patients. The inhibition could be partially prevented by treatment of the cells with the antioxidants N-acetylcysteine or DTT, but direct antioxidant treatment of CD45 immunoprecipitates could not restore activity. Exposure to PMA, a direct activator of protein kinase C that also induces an oxidative burst, inhibited CD45 in both normal and CGD neutrophils. However, the magnitude of inhibition was less and the kinetics delayed in CGD cells when compared with normal cells. We conclude that ROI produced by the NADPH oxidase can contribute to inhibition of tyrosine phosphatases such as CD45 by oxidant-mediated effects, but that alternate regulatory mechanisms also exist.
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PMID:Inhibition of CD45 during neutrophil activation. 916 62

Heparin and heparan are potent inhibitors of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation. To investigate the mechanisms by which heparin suppresses growth factor stimulated mitogenesis, the present experiments investigated the effects of heparin on platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulated signal transduction pathways. Heparin treatment substantially inhibited PDGF-BB stimulated rat VSMC growth. Western analysis showed a 30 min PDGF-BB treatment of VSMC induced the tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple protein bands; cotreatment with heparin inhibited mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase tyrosine phosphorylation but had little effect on PDGF receptor tyrosine phosphorylation. In-gel kinase assays demonstrated that heparin inhibited PDGF-BB stimulated MAP kinase activity at late (25 min) but not early (10 min) time points. These data indicate that heparin does not inhibit the initial signalling events after PDGF-BB binding but instead acts through an alternate mechanism to inhibit MAP kinase. To investigate if heparin directly stimulates tyrosine phosphatase-mediated suppression of MAP kinase, we treated VSMC with orthovanadate, a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor. Heparin inhibited MAP kinase tyrosine phosphorylation after orthovanadate treatment, indicating that heparin does not suppress MAP kinase by enlistment of a tyrosine phosphatase. Experiments were performed to investigate signalling pathways upstream of MAP kinase. To determine if protein kinase C (PKC) mediates PDGF-BB, serum, and EGF stimulation of MAP kinase, we treated VSMC overnight with phorbol ester (PMA) to downregulate PKC. Abolition of conventional and novel PKC activity significantly suppressed both serum and PDGF-BB induced MAP kinase activation, indicating protein kinase C is an important mediator for these mitogens. In contrast, downregulation of these PKC isoforms had little effect on EGF stimulation of MAP kinase. As heparin inhibits PDGF and serum but not EGF stimulation of MAP kinase, there data precisely correlate heparin inhibition of MAP kinase with activation through PKC-dependent pathways. Immunoprecipitation analysis found that heparin inhibited serum, PMA, and PDGF but not EGF induced raf-1 phosphorylation. These studies demonstrate that heparin did not block PDGF-BB receptor activation, which initiates the mitogenic signalling cascade. Heparin did inhibit specific postreceptor second messenger signals, such as the late phase activation of MAP kinase, which may be mediated by suppression of PKC-dependent pathways.
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PMID:Mechanisms of inhibition by heparin of PDGF stimulated MAP kinase activation in vascular smooth muscle cells. 920 27

Tyrosine kinases and phosphatases are abundant in the nervous system, where they signal cellular differentiation, mediate the responses to growth factors, and direct neurite outgrowth during development. Tyrosine phosphorylation can also alter ion channel activity, but its physiological significance remains unclear. In an identified leech mechanosensory neuron, the ubiquitous neuromodulator serotonin increases the activity of a cation channel by activating protein kinase C (PKC), resulting in membrane depolarization and modulation of the receptive field properties. We observed that the effects on isolated neurons and channels were blocked by inhibiting tyrosine phosphatases. Serotonergic stimulation of PKC thus activates a tyrosine phosphatase activity associated with the channels, which reverses their constitutive inhibition by tyrosine phosphorylation, representing a novel form of neuromodulation.
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PMID:Requirement for tyrosine phosphatase during serotonergic neuromodulation by protein kinase C. 922 77

Stimulation of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) activates signaling pathways involving protein kinases, phospholipase Cgamma1, and Ras. How these second messengers interact to initiate distal activation events is an area of intense scrutiny. In this report, we confirm that TCR ligation results in phosphorylation of Sos, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Ras. This requires expression of both the CD45 tyrosine phosphatase and the Lck protein tyrosine kinase and depends upon signaling via protein kinase C. In contrast to previous studies examining requirements for Sos phosphorylation following insulin and epidermal growth factor receptor engagement, we show that TCR-induced phosphorylation of Sos does not require activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular-signal regulated kinase (MEK/ERK) pathway. However, the basal phosphorylation of Sos in T cells is affected by either MEK or MEK-dependent kinases. Although Sos phosphorylation results in its dissociation from Grb2 following insulin stimulation in Chinese hamster ovary cells, TCR engagement on the Jurkat T cell line fails to elicit a similar effect. These data demonstrate that the kinases responsible for Sos phosphorylation differ following ligation of various cell surface receptors and that the consequences of Sos phosphorylation relies, at least in part, on sites of its phosphorylation.
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PMID:T cell receptor-induced phosphorylation of Sos requires activity of CD45, Lck, and protein kinase C, but not ERK. 926 Nov 85

The role of protein kinase C and protein phosphatases was examined in the control of mutagenic metabolites of aromatic amines. Various metabolic activating systems derived from rat liver were treated with: 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), a protein kinase C modulator; okadaic acid (OA), a potent inhibitor of serine/threonine protein phosphatases (PP1 and PP2A); and ortho-vanadate (OV), an inhibitor of tyrosine phosphatases. TPA used over a wide concentration range (10(-9)-10(-6) M) did not affect the bacterial mutagenicity of the aromatic amines and of the aromatic amide investigated, 2-aminoanthracene, 2-aminofluorene and 2-acetylaminofluorene (2AAF). At the molecular level, TPA did not affect the function of cytochrome P450s 1A1 or 1A2, which are known key factors for the activation and inactivation of aromatic amines/amides. By contrast the OA and OV treatment of rat hepatocytes, rat liver homogenate, fraction S9 and the nuclear fraction drastically reduced (by > 80%) the mutagenicity of the aromatic amines/amide investigated. This is by far the most pronounced change in genotoxicity observed to date via modulation of phosphorylation. Whilst the mutagenicity of the primary toxication product 2-N-OH-acetylaminofluorene (2-N-OH-AAF) in the presence of exogenous activating systems (hepatocytes, S9-fraction, nuclear fraction) was also reduced by OV, OA had no influence. Thus the tyrosine protein phosphatase inhibitor and the serine/threonine protein phosphatase inhibitor influence the genotoxicity of aromatic amines/amides on different levels. Moreover, this shows that the drastic reduction in mutagenicity by OA was due to its influence on a step prior to the presence of the primary toxication product 2-N-OH-AAF. This reduction could be due to changes in the activity of cytochrome P4501A1 and/or 1A2. However, no incorporation of 32P-labelled phosphate from intracellularly prelabelled [32P]-ATP into cytochromes P450 1A1 or 1A2 nor any change in their catalytic activities was observed in the presence of OA. Furthermore, a phosphorylation dependent change in the function of P-glycoprotein (known for its role in the transport of diverse xenobiotic substances and their metabolites) was shown not to contribute to the observed decrease in mutagenicity. Our results reveal an important role for protein phosphatase 1 and/or 2A and tyrosine phosphatase(s) in the control of the genotoxicity of aromatic amines and amides. However, the present study does not distinguish between effects mediated by individual proteins affected by these protein phosphatases.
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PMID:Control of the mutagenicity of aromatic amines by protein kinases and phosphatases. I. The protein phosphatase inhibitors okadaic acid and ortho-vanadate drastically reduce the mutagenicity of aromatic amines. 933 96

A potent tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, pervanadate, induced (i) translocation of the cytosolic NADPH oxidase factors, p47-phox and p67-phox, to the plasma membrane; and (ii) O2- production in human neutrophils. However, the translocation of p47-phox and p67-phox was inhibited by H-7, a protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor without markedly affecting O2- production in whole neutrophils. Results from the plasma membrane fraction showed that NADPH oxidase activity in neutrophils treated with pervanadate did not vary in the presence or absence of H-7, despite a lower content of p47-phox and p67-phox in H-7-treated neutrophils. These findings suggest that in addition to the well-known PKC-dependent pathway, there may exist another PKC-independent pathway to activate NADPH oxidase in human neutrophils. This pathway involves protein tyrosine phosphorylation but does not seem to necessitate translocation of p47-phox and p67-phox to the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Indication of a protein kinase C-independent pathway for NADPH oxidase activation in human neutrophils. 943 86

When serum-starved A431 cells were treated with 200 nM phorbol ester TPA for 15 min, the cellular activity of protein kinase FA/glycogen synthase kinase-3alpha (kinase FA/GSK-3alpha) could be decreased to approximately 25% of control. Conversely, when treated with 1 microM TPA for 24 hr, the activity could be reversibly increased to approximately 200% of Control. The naturally occurring protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor sphingosine at a concentration of 27 microM could also induce activation of kinase FA/GSK-3alpha to approximately 200% of control within 60 min. Further, when cells were chronically treated with 1 microM TPA for 24 hr and then with 27 microM sphingosine for 60 min, the activity of kinase FA/GSK-3alpha could only be increased to approximately 200% of control. Furthermore, when cells were pretreated with sphingosine and then acutely treated with TPA, the acute TPA effect on kinase FA/GSK-3alpha activity could be abolished by genistein or tyrosine phosphorylation, which could be blocked by genistein or tyrosine phosphatase, but could be reversed by orthovanadate. Taken together, the results demonstrate that TPA/sphingosine induce tyrosine phosphorylation and concurrent activation of kinase FA/GSK-3alpha in a common signalling pathway. Since TPA and sphingosine are potent PKC modulators, the results further suggest a potential role of PKC in modulating tyrosine phosphorylation/activation of kinase FA/GSK-3alpha. Kinetic studies on seven subtypes of PKC further demonstrate a specific involvement of PKCE in this tyrosine phosphorylation/activation process. This provides a new mode of signal transduction between these two important serine/threonine kinases in cells.
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PMID:The naturally occurring PKC inhibitor sphingosine and tumor promoter phorbol ester potentially induce tyrosine phosphorylation/activation of oncogenic proline-directed protein kinase FA/GSK-3alpha in a common signalling pathway. 949 24


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