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The L-myc protein migrates as three distinct differentially phosphorylated bands in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). This phosphorylation can be rapidly increased either by treatment with the protein kinase C (PKC) activator phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) or by inhibition of serine/threonine protein phosphatases with okadaic acid. In vitro mutagenesis and phosphoamino acid analyses define the N-terminal serine residues 38 and 42 of L-myc as critical targets for the PKC-dependent phosphorylation. These are the exclusive sites of phosphorylation in the N-terminal third of the L-myc protein, and can be phosphorylated in vitro by glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3 beta). A mutant L-myc protein in which these serines have been replaced by alanine residues does not show heterogeneous electrophoretic migration or hyperphosphorylation in response to PKC activation, and is not a substrate for GSK-3 beta in vitro. Similar potential phosphorylation sites are present in c-myc and N-myc in a highly conserved region thought to represent a transcriptional activation domain. We suggest that N-terminal phosphorylation of the L-myc protein is a means of rapid regulation of this oncoprotein, possibly mediated in vivo by the action of GSK-3.
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PMID:Activation of protein kinase C increases phosphorylation of the L-myc trans-activator domain at a GSK-3 target site. 131 97

Washing buffy-coat free erythrocyte concentrates three times in bottles used for blood storage will diminish their leukocyte content to 0.22 +/- 0.11 x 10(9) per TE (= 9% of the initial value in whole blood, and the thrombocyte content to 0.3 +/- 0.5 x 10(9) per day (= 2% of the initial value in whole blood). Even 50% of leukocytes (mainly lymphocytes) and 80% of thrombocytes are eliminated simply by buffy coat separation. 30% of erythrocytes are lost by the washing process. Due to increasing haemolysis (0.22%) a subsequent storage of 24 hours should not be exceeded for washed erythrocyte concentrates. Further quality parameters, such as morphological index, pH, ATP, 2,3-P2G and K+ and Na+, were investigated. As far as selected quality parameters are concerned, washing erythrocyte concentrates three times in bottles for blood storage may be compared with washing them once in blood bags. The present findings confirm the conclusion that the washing of erythrocyte concentrates with a solution of sodium chloride in order to eliminate leukocytes may for the most part exclude non-haemolytic febrile transfusion reactions, but not immunization. More effective procedures of eliminating leukocytes, such as filtration, TTK or even glycerin, treatment of erythrocyte concentrates without cryoconservation, are indispensable.
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PMID:[Improving the quality of washed and buffy coat-free erythrocyte concentrates]. 169 88

T lymphocytes express a tyrosine protein kinase (TPK; protein-tyrosine kinase; ATP:protein-tyrosine O-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.112), pp56lck that is encoded by the lck protooncogene. This TPK was recently found to be associated with the intracellular domain of the T-cell surface glycoproteins, CD4 and CD8, suggesting that it plays an important role in T-cell development and activation. We have studied the regulation of pp56lck and found that this kinase can be rapidly activated by an endogenous mechanism present in T-lymphocyte membranes. This activation was sensitive to sodium orthovanadate and O-phosphotyrosine, consistent with the involvement of a phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTPase; protein-tyrosine-phosphatase; protein-tyrosine-phosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.48) in pp56lck activation. Based on a recent report demonstrating that CD45, the leukocyte common antigen, is a membrane-bound PTPase, we analyzed its role in pp56lck activation. CD45 was found to be the major (greater than 90%) PTPase in membranes of the murine T-lymphoma line BW5147. Moreover, activation of pp56lck was undetectable in a mutant BW5147 line lacking CD45 expression (and the associated PTPase activity). In contrast, activation of pp56lck was readily detected in the wild-type lymphoma line. More important, when immunoprecipitated CD45 was added to pp56lck, the TPK activity of the latter increased greater than 2-fold within minutes. This effect of CD45 was completely blocked by sodium orthovanadate. These findings indicate an important role for the CD45 PTPase in pp56lck activation. This role could be mediated by direct dephosphorylation of a regulatory tyrosine residue in pp56lck.
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PMID:Rapid activation of the T-cell tyrosine protein kinase pp56lck by the CD45 phosphotyrosine phosphatase. 254 4

Glycogen synthase was purified to near homogeneity from rat skeletal muscle, and was found to resemble the rabbit skeletal muscle enzyme in several respects. An apparent molecular weight (Mapp) of 86,000 was estimated from the electrophoretic mobility of the subunit on polyacrylamide gels in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. Limited proteolysis of the rat synthase with trypsin resulted in the formation of species with MappS equal to 75,000, 69,000, and 67,000. The enzyme could be phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, phosphorylase kinase, and the cAMP-independent protein kinases, PC0.7 and FA/GSK-3. Essentially all of the phosphorylation observed occurred on serines located in two cyanogen bromide fragments, denoted CB-1 (Mapp = 13,000) and CB-2 (Mapp = 22,000). FA/GSK-3 and cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylated sites in both fragments. Phosphate introduced by phosphorylase kinase was located exclusively in CB-1, and that incorporated with PC0.7 was found in CB-2. Phosphorylation by FA/GSK-3 reduced the electrophoretic mobility of the subunit, introduced heterogeneity into CB-2, and was synergistic with phosphorylation by PC0.7. To separate phosphorylation sites more completely, samples of glycogen synthase were subjected to extensive proteolysis using trypsin, followed by reverse-phase liquid chromatography. When phosphorylated by the same kinases, the pattern of fragments obtained with rat and rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase were almost identical. The results presented provide strong evidence that the subunit of rat skeletal muscle glycogen synthase has at least five phosphorylation sites that are very similar, if not identical, to sites present on the rabbit muscle enzyme.
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PMID:Rat skeletal muscle glycogen synthase: phosphorylation of the purified enzyme by cAMP-dependent and -independent protein kinases. 298 12

We have examined phosphorylation of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor in cultured sympathetic neurons and PC12 cells. Dissociated rat superior cervical ganglion neurons or PC12 cells were incubated with 32Pi to label cellular phosphoproteins. Membrane proteins were solubilized, and NGF receptor proteins were immunoprecipitated with the monoclonal antibody 192-IgG. Analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography showed that NGF receptor components of Mr = 80,000 and Mr = 210,000 were phosphorylated. Phosphorylation of neither species was affected by treating the cells with NGF or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. When the 80,000-Da protein was subjected to complete trypsin proteolysis and then analyzed by reverse phase liquid chromatography, two 32P-labeled peptides were resolved. The more hydrophobic peptide accounted for most of the 32P and contained only phosphoserine; the other peptide contained phosphoserine and phosphothreonine. No phosphotyrosine was detected in the receptor proteins. When receptor molecules from nonlabeled PC12 cells were immunoprecipitated and then incubated in vitro with [gamma-32P]ATP and the cAMP-independent protein kinase FA/GSK-3, phosphorylation occurred predominantly on serine and to a lesser extent on threonine. However, the immunoprecipitated receptor proteins neither autophosphorylated nor were they detectably phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, casein kinase II, or protein kinase C (the Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent enzyme). We conclude that binding units of the NGF receptor are phosphorylated constitutively in at least two sites in intact cells and that they can be phosphorylated by FA/GSK-3 in vitro.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of nerve growth factor receptor proteins in sympathetic neurons and PC12 cells. In vitro phosphorylation by the cAMP-independent protein kinase FA/GSK-3. 302 30

In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, three genes TPK1, TPK2, and TPK3 encode catalytic subunits of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. We have purified and characterized the catalytic subunit, C1, encoded by the TPK1 gene. In order to purify C1 completely free of C2 and C3, a strain was constructed that contained only the TPK1 gene and genetic disruptions of the other two TPK genes. The cellular level of C1 was increased by expressing the genes for C1 (TPK1) and yeast regulatory subunit (BCY1) on multiple copy plasmids within this strain. Purification was accomplished by a two-column procedure in which holoenzyme was chromatographed on Sephacryl-200, then bound to an anti-regulatory subunit immunoaffinity column. Pure C1 was released from the antibody column by addition of cAMP. The protein migrated on a sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel with an Mr of 52,000. Kinetic analysis showed that the apparent Km for ATP and Leu-Arg-Arg-Ala-Ser-Leu-Gly was 33 and 101 microM, respectively. The kcat was determined to be 640 min-1. The protein weakly autophosphorylated, incorporating less than 0.1 mol of phosphate/mol of catalytic subunit. NH2-terminal sequencing revealed that the protein was blocked.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of C1, the catalytic subunit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cAMP-dependent protein kinase encoded by TPK1. 328 29

Phosphorylation of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase by a cyclic nucleotide and Ca2+-independent protein kinase, PC0.7, caused the enzyme to be a better substrate for phosphorylation by another cyclic nucleotide and Ca2+-independent protein kinase, FA/GSK-3. In contrast, phosphorylation by the combination of FA/GSK-3 and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase led to less phosphorylation than predicted from the individual actions of the protein kinases. These results are explained in part by the existence of cooperative interactions among the phosphorylation sites of glycogen synthase. Phosphorylation by FA/GSK-3 also correlated with a reduction in the electrophoretic mobility, in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, of the glycogen synthase subunit from an apparent molecular weight of 85,000-86,000 to values of 88,000 and ultimately 90,000. The synergistic phosphorylation by PC0.7 and FA/GSK-3 was associated with an increased formation of the species of reduced electrophoretic mobility. The effects on subunit mobility were also reflected in the behavior of a larger phosphorylated CNBr fragment of glycogen synthase, CB-2, which gave apparent molecular weights of 22,000-27,000 depending on its phosphorylation state.
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PMID:Multiple phosphorylation of rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase. Evidence for interactions among phosphorylation sites and the resolution of electrophoretically distinct forms of the subunit. 630 12

A protein kinase, able to phosphorylate casein, phosvitin, and glycogen synthase, was purified approximately 9000-fold from rabbit liver, and appeared analogous to an enzyme studied by Itarte and Huang (Itarte, E., and Huang, K.-P. (1979) J. Biol. Chem. 254, 4052-4057). This enzyme, designated here casein kinase-1, was shown to be a distinct glycogen synthase kinase and in particular to be different from the protein kinase GSK-3 (Hemmings, B.A., Yellowlees, D., Kernohan, J.C., and Cohen, P. (1981) Eur. J. Biochem. 119, 443-451). Casein kinase-1 had native molecular weight of 30,000 as judged by gel filtration. The enzyme phosphorylated beta-casein A or B better than kappa-casein or alpha s1-casein, and modified only serine residues in beta-casein B and phosvitin. The apparent Km for ATP was 11 microM, and GTP was ineffective as a phosphoryl donor. The phosphorylation of glycogen synthase by casein kinase-1 was inhibited by glycogen, half-maximally at 2 mg/ml, and by heparin, half-maximally at 0.5-1.0 microgram/ml, but was unaffected by Ca2+ and/or calmodulin, or by cyclic AMP. Phosphorylation of muscle glycogen synthase proceeded to a stoichiometry of at least 6 phosphates/subunit with reduction in the +/- glucose-6-P activity ratio to less than 0.4. Phosphate was introduced into both a COOH-terminal CNBr fragment (CB-2) as well as a NH2-terminal fragment (CB-1). At a phosphorylation stoichiometry of 6 phosphates/subunit, 84% of the phosphate was associated with CB-2 and 6.5% with CB-1. The remainder of the phosphate was introduced into another CNBr fragment of apparent molecular weight 16,500. Phosphorylation by casein kinase-1 correlated with reduced electrophoretic mobilities, as analyzed on polyacrylamide gels in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, of the intact glycogen synthase subunit, as well as the CNBr fragments CB-1 and CB-2.
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PMID:Glycogen synthase kinases. Classification of a rabbit liver casein and glycogen synthase kinase (casein kinase-1) as a distinct enzyme. 632 24

Isolated rat hepatocytes were incubated in a medium containing 0.1 mM [32P]phosphate (0.1 mCi/ml) before exposure to epinephrine, glucagon or vasopressin. 32P-labeled glycogen synthase was purified from extracts of control or hormone-treated cells by the use of specific antibodies raised to rabbit skeletal muscle glycogen synthase. Analysis of the immunoprecipitates by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate indicated that a single 32P-labeled polypeptide, apparent Mr 88000, was removed specifically by the antibodies and corresponded to glycogen synthase. Similar electrophoretic analysis of CNBr fragments prepared from the immunoprecipitate revealed that 32P was distributed between two fragments, of apparent Mr 14000 (CB-1) and 28000 (CB-2). Epinephrine, vasopressin or glucagon increased the 32P content of the glycogen synthase subunit. CB-2 phosphorylation was increased by all three hormones while CB-1 was most affected by epinephrine and vasopressin. These effects correlated with a decrease in glycogen synthase activity. From studies using rat liver glycogen synthase, purified by conventional methods and phosphorylated in vitro by individual protein kinases, it was found that electrophoretically similar CNBr fragments could be obtained. However, neither cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase nor three different Ca2+-dependent enzymes (phosphorylase kinase, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, and protein kinase C) were effective in phosphorylating CB-2. The protein kinases most effective towards CB-2 were the Ca2+ and cyclic-nucleotide-independent enzymes casein kinase II (PC0.7) and FA/GSK-3. The results demonstrate that rat liver glycogen synthase undergoes multiple phosphorylation in whole cells and that stimulation of cells by glycogenolytic hormones can modify the phosphorylation of at least two distinct sites in the enzyme. The specificity of the hormones, however, cannot be explained simply by the direct action of any known protein kinase dependent on cyclic nucleotide or Ca2+. Therefore, either control of other protein kinases, such as FA/GSK-3, is involved or phosphatase activity is regulated, or both.
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PMID:Control of glycogen synthase phosphorylation in isolated rat hepatocytes by epinephrine, vasopressin and glucagon. 643 31

Previously, we identified protein kinase FA/glycogen synthase kinase-3 alpha (GSK-3 alpha) as a brain microtubule-associated tau kinase that phosphorylates Ser235 and Ser404 of tau and causes its electrophoretic mobility shift in gels, a unique property characteristic of paired helical filament-associated pathological tau (PHF-tau) in Alzheimer's disease brains. In this study, we found that the activity of kinase FA/GSK-3 alpha towards phosphorylation of brain tau could be stimulated approximately fourfold by heparin. The phosphorylation molar ratio was increased simultaneously up to 9 mol of phosphates/mol of tau, resulting in a reduced mobility of tau with an apparent molecular mass shift to approximately 68 kDa in sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, which is very similar to that observed in Alzheimer-tau. Tryptic digestion of 32P-labelled tau, followed by HPLC and two-dimensional separation on TLC cellulose plates, revealed eight major phosphopeptides. Phosphoamino acid analysis together with sequential manual Edman degradation and protein sequence analysis further revealed that, in addition to Ser235 and Ser404, heparin generated Thr212, Thr231, Ser262, Ser324, and Ser356, the five extra phosphorylation sites in tau. As Ser235, Ser262, Ser324, Ser356, and Ser404 (particularly the site of Ser262) have been identified as five of the most potent sites in tau responsible for reducing microtubule binding possibly involved in neuronal degeneration, and Thr231, Ser235, Ser262, and Ser404 are four of the most well documented sites abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer-tau, the results provide initial evidence that protein kinase FA/GSK-3 alpha after heparin potentiation may represent one of the most potent systems possibly involved in the abnormal phosphorylation of PHF-tau in Alzheimer's disease brains.
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PMID:Protein kinase FA/glycogen synthase kinase-3 alpha after heparin potentiation phosphorylates tau on sites abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease brain. 793 Dec 92


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