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The amount of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) activity in rabbit skeletal muscle associated with membranes (predominantly sarcoplasmic reticulum) is similar to that bound to glycogen-protein particles. Membrane-vesicle-associated (sarcovesicular) PP1 can be solubilised with 0.5% Triton X-100 (but not 0.5M NaCl) and is complexed to a protein that is structurally and functionally very similar or identical to the G subunit which targets PP1 to glycogen-protein particles. This conclusion is based on immunoblotting and immunotitration experiments using two different preparations of G-subunit-specific antibodies, binding of Triton-solubilised sarcovesicular enzyme to glycogen, stimulation of phosphorylase phosphatase activity by glycogen, phosphorylation of the same tryptic peptides by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase (A-kinase) and release of catalytic subunit following phosphorylation by A-kinase. Membrane-association is not mediated via glycogen because sarcovesicular PP1 is (1) not released by digestion with alpha-amylase or at dilutions which fully dissociate the glycogen-bound enzyme, and (2) is solubilised by Triton X-100 (whereas glycogen-associated PP1 is not). These findings demonstrate that sarcovesicular PP1 is highly homologous to, or the same as, glycogen-associated PP1G and raises the possibility that a common targetting subunit may direct PP1 to different subcellular locations.
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PMID:Targetting of protein phosphatase 1 to the sarcoplasmic reticulum of rabbit skeletal muscle by a protein that is very similar or identical to the G subunit that directs the enzyme to glycogen. 215 75

The catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1), a key enzyme in the regulation of many cellular functions, has been expressed in insect cells using a baculovirus vector containing PP1 alpha cDNA. The expressed protein had the same apparent molecular mass as PP1 from rabbit skeletal muscle and comprised up to 25% of the total cellular protein. About 5% of expressed PP1 alpha was present as a soluble active species, representing a 15-fold increase over the endogenous activity. Insoluble protein, comprising about 95% of the expressed PP1 was dissolved in 6 M guanidinium chloride and could be fully reactivated by extensive and rapid dilution with buffers containing Mn2+. By a number of criteria (specific activity towards phosphorylase, interaction with inhibitor-1, inhibitor-2 and okadaic acid), this reactivated species was indistinguishable from authentic PP1, and could be concentrated and purified to homogeneity by a single chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose. This procedure yielded about 10 mg active PP1/1 culture, which will facilitate future structural analyses of native and mutant protein phosphatases.
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PMID:Renaturation of protein phosphatase 1 expressed at high levels in insect cells using a baculovirus vector. 216 39

Protein phosphatases associated with the particulate fraction from rat liver were studied by chromatographing the fraction on a DEAE-cellulose column and assaying the eluate with phosphorylase alpha and glycogen synthase D as substrates. Phosphorylase phosphatase activity emerged as two peaks, termed P-1 and P-2 in order of elution, both of which were inhibited by Mn2+ and Mg2+. P-1 and P-2 were Mr = 50,000 and 32,000 proteins, respectively, and when treated with trypsin, P-1 converted to a form indistinguishable from P-2, to which protein phosphatase inhibitor-2 was a potent inhibitor. Thus P-2 appears to be the catalytic subunit of type-1 protein phosphatase even though it has been degrated proteolytically as evidenced by its relatively low Mr. The elution profile of glycogen synthase phosphatase activity was entirely different. The activity obtained with 5 mM Mn2+ resolved into three peaks, the second-migrating M-2 being the largest. M-2 is an Mr = 70,000 protein; but an attempt to purify it has been unsuccessful giving a product of Mr = 40,000 and closely similar to the type-1 catalytic subunit in properties including inhibition by inhibitor-2. These results suggest that phosphatases P-1 and M-2 have a common catalytic subunit (type-1), which is bound to different "regulatory" subunits. M-2 distributes in glycogen particles and microsomes evenly while P-1 is almost exclusively in microsomes.
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PMID:Characterization of protein phosphatases associated with the particulate fraction from rat liver. 216 61

A systematic study of protein kinase activity and phosphorylation of membrane proteins by ATP was carried out with vesicular fragments of longitudinal tubules (light SR) and junctional terminal cisternae (JTC) derived from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Following incubation of JTC with ATP, a 170,000-Da glycoprotein, a 97,500-Da protein (glycogen phosphorylase), and a 55,000-60,000-Da doublet (containing calmodulin-dependent protein kinase subunit) underwent phosphorylation. Addition of calmodulin in the presence of Ca2+ (with no added protein kinase) produced a 10-fold increase of phosphorylation involving numerous JTC proteins, including the large (approximately 450,000 Da) ryanodine receptor protein. Calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of the ryanodine receptor protein was unambiguously demonstrated by Western blot analysis. The specificity of these findings was demonstrated by much lower levels of calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation in light SR as compared to JTC, and by much lower cyclic AMP dependent kinase activity in both JTC and light SR. These observations indicate that the purified JTC contain membrane-bound calmodulin-dependent protein kinase that undergoes autophosphorylation and catalyzes phosphorylation of various membrane proteins. Protein dephosphorylation was very slow in the absence of added phosphatases, but was accelerated by the addition of phosphatase 1 and 2A (catalytic subunit) in the absence of Ca2+, and calcineurin in the presence of Ca2+. Therefore, in the muscle fiber, dephosphorylation of SR proteins relies on cytoplasmic phosphatases. No significant effect of protein phosphorylation was detected on the Ca2(+)-induced Ca2+ release exhibited by isolated JTC vesicles. However, the selective and prominent association of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase and related substrates with junctional membranes, its Ca2+ sensitivity, and its close proximity to the ryanodine and dihydropyridine receptor Ca2+ channels suggest that this phosphorylation system is involved in regulation of functions linked to these structures.
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PMID:Specific association of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase and related substrates with the junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle. 216 64

1. Although Mn2+ could mimic kinase FA/ATP.Mg to activate ATP.Mg-dependent protein phosphatase, strong indications have been obtained that the Mn2(+)-activated and FA/ATP.Mg-activated phosphatase forms are not identical in terms of their substrate specificities and catalytic properties. 2. Both Mn2(+)-activated and FA/ATP.Mg-activated phosphatase forms readily dephosphorylate 32P-labeled phosphorylase a and myelin basic protein (MBP), however the Mn2(+)-activated phosphatase displays activity preferentially against [32P]MBP and FA/ATP.Mg-activated phosphatase preferentially dephosphorylates [32P]phosphorylase a, representing a unique control mechanism to regulate the substrate specificity of multisubstrate protein phosphatase in mammalian tissues.
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PMID:Selective activation of the two catalytic sites in the ATP.Mg-dependent phosphoprotein phosphatase by kinase Fa and Mn2+ ion. 216 37

The prominent protein phosphatases involved in liver glycogen metabolism are the AMD (ATP, Mg-dependent, type-1) and PCS (polycation-stimulated, type-2A) phosphatases. The glycogen synthase phosphatase activity, measured from the rate of activation of liver glycogen synthase, is virtually accounted for by AMD phosphatases; the bulk of the activity belongs to the glycogen-bound protein phosphatase G and a small part is present in the cytosol. The major part of the phosphorylase phosphatase activity present in the post-mitochondrial supernatant is shared by protein phosphatase G and cytosolic enzymes, and a minor part belongs to a microsomal AMD phosphatase. In the liver cytosol, the phosphorylase phosphatase activity is about equally distributed between AMD and PCS phosphatases. Studies in vivo as well as on isolated, perfused livers have shown that glucagon (which raises the level of cyclic AMP) as well as vasopressin (which increases the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration) decrease the phosphorylase phosphatase activity in liver extract or cytosol (filtered through Sephadex G-25) by about 25% within a few minutes. These effects were not additive, and the activity of glycogen synthase phosphatase was not affected. Conversely, insulin as well as glucose increased both phosphatase activities by about 25%, and these effects were additive. Vanadate mimicked the effect of insulin on the perfused liver. All the activity changes were only observed when the assays were performed at high tissue concentration. Upon subcellular fractionation all the effects were well expressed in the cytosol, but not in the particulate fraction (glycogen and microsomes). However, quantitatively the hormonal responses were largely lost during the fractionation procedure; they could be restored by recombination of the liver cytosol from a hormone-treated rat with the particulate fraction from either a treated or an untreated animal. It appears that the effects of glucagon, insulin and glucose are mediated by cytosolic, transferable effectors of the Vmax of protein phosphatases. These effectors are eluted in the void volume of a Sephadex G-25 column. Rats of the gsd/gsd strain, which have a genetic deficiency of hepatic phosphorylase kinase, responded to an injection of insulin plus glucose with a normal increase in the cytosolic phosphorylase phosphatase activity. In contrast, they failed to respond to glucagon as well as vasopressin. A transient 80% inhibition of the phosphorylase phosphatase activity could be induced in vitro in a concentrate liver cytosol from Wistar rats upon addition of MgATP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Short-term hormonal control of protein phosphatases involved in hepatic glycogen metabolism. 216 98

The protein phosphatases active against phosphorylase a, elongation factor-2 (EF-2) and the alpha-subunit of initiation factor-2 (eIF-2) [eIF-2(alpha P)] were studied in extracts of rabbit reticulocytes. Swiss-mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and rat hepatocytes, by use of the specific phosphatase inhibitors okadaic acid and inhibitor proteins-1 and -2. In all three extracts tested, both phosphatase-1 and phosphatase-2A contributed to overall phosphatase activity against phosphorylase and eIF-2(alpha P), but phosphatase-2B and -2C did not. In contrast, only protein phosphatase-2A was active against EF-2. Furthermore, in hepatocytes there was substantial type-2C phosphatase activity against EF-2, but not against phosphorylase or eIF-2 alpha. These findings in cell extracts were borne out by data obtained by studying the activities of purified protein phosphatase-1 and -2A against eIF-2(alpha P) and eIF-2(alpha P) was a moderately good substrate for both enzymes (relative to phosphorylase a). In contrast, EF-2 was a very poor substrate for protein phosphatase-1, but was dephosphorylated faster than phosphorylase a by protein phosphatase-2A. The implications of these findings for the control of translation and their relationships to previous work are discussed.
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PMID:Activity of protein phosphatases against initiation factor-2 and elongation factor-2. 217 79

Substantial amounts of ATP.Mg-dependent phosphorylase phosphatase (Fc. M) and its activator (kinase FA) were identified and extensively purified from pig brain, in spite of the fact that glycogen metabolism in the brain is of little importance. The brain Fc.M was completely inactive and could only be activated by ATP.Mg and FA, isolated either from rabbit muscle or pig brain. Kinetical analysis of the dephosphorylation of endogenous brain protein indicates that Fc.M could dephosphorylate 32P-labeled myelin basic protein (MBP) and [32P]phosphorylase alpha at a comparable rate and moreover, this associated MBP phosphatase activity was also strictly kinase FA/ATP.Mg-dependent, demonstrating that MBP is a potential substrate for Fc.M in the brain. By manipulating MBP and inhibitor-2 as specific potent phosphorylase phosphatase inhibitors, we further demonstrate that 1) Fc.M contains two distinct catalytic sites to dephosphorylate different substrates, and 2) brain MBP may be a physiological trigger involved in the regulation of protein phosphatase substrate specificity in mammalian nervous tissues.
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PMID:Identification and characterization of an ATP.Mg-dependent protein phosphatase from pig brain. 241 81

Direct treatment of brain myelin with freezing/thawing in 0.2 M 2-mercaptoethanol stimulated the endogenous myelin phosphatase activity manyfold when 32P-labeled phosphorylase a was used as a substrate, a result indicating that an endogenous myelin phosphatase is a latent protein phosphatase. When myelin was treated with Triton X-100, this endogenous latent phosphatase activity was further stimulated 2.5-fold. Diethylaminoethyl-cellulose and Sephadex G-200 chromatography of solubilized myelin revealed a pronounced peak of protein phosphatase activity stimulated by freezing/thawing in 0.2 M 2-mercaptoethanol and with a molecular weight of 350,000, which is characteristic of latent phosphatase 2, as previously reported. Moreover, endogenous phosphorylation of myelin basic protein (MBP) in brain myelin was completely reversed by a homogeneous preparation of exogenous latent phosphatase 2. By contrast, under the same conditions, endogenous phosphorylation of brain myelin was entirely unaffected by ATP X Mg-dependent phosphatase and latent phosphatase 1, although both enzymes are potent MBP phosphatases. Together, these findings clearly indicate that a high-molecular-weight latent phosphatase, termed latent phosphatase 2, is the most predominant phosphatase responsible for dephosphorylation of brain myelin.
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PMID:Endogenous basic protein phosphatases in the brain myelin. 243 73

We have performed an in vivo study to test the hypothesis that induction of fetal hepatic glycogenesis is stimulated by insulin and involves activation of protein phosphatase type-1. Control animals and the following two experimental groups were studied: maternal fasting for 48 h prior to term and chronic maternal hyperinsulinemia for 5 days prior to term. Maternal fasting led to decreased fetal hepatic glycogen content and fetal growth retardation. In contrast, no decrease in fetal hepatic glycogen content or fetal weight occurred with maternal hyperinsulinemia despite fetal hypoglycemia and fetal hypoinsulinemia. In neither model were fetal hepatic synthase phosphatase or phosphorylase phosphatase activities affected. In control fetuses, the appearance of hepatic glycogen from days 17 to 21 of gestation correlated with induction of glycogen synthase. Phosphorylase phosphatase and synthase phosphatase activities already were present on day 17 of gestation and changed little through term. However, phosphatase catalytic protein reactive with anti-phosphatase type-1 antibodies did increase approximately fivefold from day 18 to 21. In adult animals fasted for 48 h, 50% of hepatic glycogen synthase phosphatase activity was lost, whereas phosphorylase phosphatase activity was stimulated fourfold. The apparent size of protein phosphatase type-1 catalytic subunit as detected by Western immunoblotting was altered by fasting in the adult but not by substrate restriction (maternal fasting) in the fetus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Induction of hepatic glycogenesis in the fetal rat. 249 54


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