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Query: EC:3.1.3.16 (calcineurin)
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Calf liver nuclear phosphoprotein phosphatase (phosphoprotein phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16) has been purified approx. 850-fold. The enzyme has a mol. wt. of 34 000 as determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified enzyme has a pH optimum between 7.0 and 7.5 with phosphophosphorylase, phosphohistones f1 and f2b, and phosphoprotamine as substrates. The enzyme activity towards these substrates follows the order, phosphophosphorylase greater than phosphohistone f1 greater than phosphohistone f2b greater than phosphoprotamine. The Km values toward phosphophospharylase and phosphohistone f1 are 17 and 28 micron phosphate, respectively. Dephosphorylated histone f1 and orthophosphate are competitive inhibitors of the enzyme with respective Ki values of 11 micron and 4.1 mM. NaCl and divalent metal ions inhibit the enzyme but CaCl2 is slightly stimulatory. It appears that metal ion inhibition occurs at two sites, one on the enzyme and the other on the substrate. The enzyme is also inhibited by NaF and EDTA. Nucleotides bearing the pyrophosphate structure are potent inhibitors of the enzyme while mononucleotides are slightly inhibitory. DNA and other polyions also inhibit the enzyme. The enzyme appears to require free sulfhydryl groups for activity since it is inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide and p-hydroxymercuribenzoate; the latter inhibition can be reversed by mercaptoethanol and dithiothreitol.
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PMID:Nuclear phosphoprotein phosphatase from calf liver. 3 41

Ultraviolet (280-nm) irradiation of bovine brain calmodulin results in calcium-dependent changes in its fluorescence emission spectrum. These consist of a decline in the intrinsic tyrosine fluorescence of the protein and the appearance of a new emission maximum at 400 nm. Chromatography of irradiated calmodulin, using Ultrogel AcA 54 and phenyl-agarose columns, yields several distinctive fractions. One of these, representing 2.8% of the total recovered protein and 53% of the total fluorescence emission at 400 nm, was selected for detailed characterization. Analyses performed on acid hydrolysates reveal the presence of dityrosine, a derivative of tyrosine known for its fluorescence near 400 nm, at the level of 0.59-0.89 mol per 16,700 g of protein. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis experiments demonstrate two components of apparent molecular weights 14,000 (80%) and 16,000 (20%). Observations on the effects of UV irradiation on the thrombic fragments of calmodulin and on related calcium binding proteins (rabbit skeletal muscle troponin C, bovine cardiac troponin C, and parvalbumin) support the interpretation that dityrosine formation in calmodulin results from the intramolecular cross-linking of Tyr-99 and Tyr-138. The dityrosine-containing photoproduct of calmodulin is unable to stimulate the p-nitrophenyl phosphatase activity of calcineurin under standard assay conditions. Fluorescence titrations show a generally weakened interaction with calcium ion occurring in two stages. The pKa of the derivative is considerably higher than that of free dityrosine and is calcium dependent, decreasing from 7.88 to 7.59 on the addition of 3 mM CaCl2. Smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase binds the derivative about 280-fold less effectively than it binds native calmodulin. Of several metal ions tested, only Cd2+ approaches Ca2+ in its ability to promote the appearance of the 400-nm emission band during UV irradiation of calmodulin. Mn2+ and Cu2+ appear to inhibit dityrosine formation. Ascorbic acid, dithiothreitol, and glutathione are also inhibitory.
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PMID:Dityrosine formation in calmodulin. 356 41

Stimulatory effects of Ca2+-CaM and PKI on partially purified hypothalamic HD (10 fold purification) have been shown under conditions involving inhibition of the enzyme by cAMP-induced phosphorylation and under control conditions. A 1:1 (v/v) mixture of 0.1 mM CaCl2 and 10 units of CaM from human red blood cells reversed the inhibition of HD induced by cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation activity to the control level. Verapamil (0.01 mM) could partially block the former effect without affecting the control level of enzyme activity. 0.01 mM TPA did not further increase the effect of Ca2+-CaM on HD, in the presence of 0.01 mM ATP, indicating that this stimulation does not require the action of Ca2+-dependent protein kinase. The control level of HD is not influenced by 0.1 mM CaCl2 or 0.02 mM EGTA but is raised by CaM in the presence of CaCl2 (0.1 mM). A highly purified protein kinase (cAMP-dependent) inhibitor (PKI) from bovine heart and a crude inhibitor from rat cerebellum could also reverse the inhibitory effect of cAMP-dependent protein kinase under phosphorylating conditions and enhanced HD activity above control levels. PKI and Ca2+-CaM, added together, produced single, not additive effects. We conclude that cAMP-induced phosphorylation is probable the main regulatory mechanism of histamine formation and this could be influenced by both Ca2+-CaM and PKI. Inhibition of cAMP-dependent protein kinase as well as stimulation of phosphoprotein phosphatase and Ca2+-CaM-dependent phosphodiesterase might be involved in the above actions.
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PMID:Stimulation of hypothalamic histidine decarboxylase by calcium-calmodulin and protein kinase (cAMP-dependent) inhibitor. 360 3

"Heavy" sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles loaded with 5 mM CaCl2 in the presence of protease inhibitors were phosphorylated by addition of MgATP in the presence or absence of calmodulin. The major site of phosphorylation was a 60-kDa protein. In the absence of added calmodulin, phosphorylation of the 60-kDa protein reached its maximal value (8 pmol of P/mg of membrane protein) at 1 min. In the presence of 1 microM calmodulin, a 2-fold higher level of phosphorylation (16.1 pmol of P/mg of sarcoplasmic reticulum) was reached within a shorter time (10 s). The phosphoprotein was then spontaneously dephosphorylated. The initial rate of Ca2+ release, which was induced by a Ca2+ jump and determined by stopped-flow fluorometry using chlorotetracycline, decreased upon phosphorylation, whereas it was restored upon dephosphorylation. There was good correlation between the amount of P incorporation into the 60-kDa protein and the extent of inhibition of Ca2+ release. In the presence of added calmodulin the protein kinase activity sharply increased in the [Ca2+] range of 0.2-2 microM with a concentration for half-maximal activation at 0.6 microM. On the other hand, the protein phosphatase activity was virtually independent of calmodulin and [Ca2+] in the [Ca2+] range in which protein kinase was activated. The results suggest that the calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of the 60-kDa protein plays an important role in the regulation of Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum.
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PMID:Involvement of 60-kilodalton phosphoprotein in the regulation of calcium release from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. 374 63

Nuclear envelopes were prepared from purified rat liver nuclei by lysis with heparin, digestion with deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I), or sonication. The envelopes were fractionated by centrifugation on sucrose density gradients and analyzed for protein kinase activity using endogenous and exogenous protein substrates and [gamma-32 P]ATP. The protein kinase activity toward endogenous proteins was markedly affected by the method used to isolate the envelopes, with sonication producing a preparation with very low activity. At least 12 phosphoproteins in nuclear envelopes isolated by the heparin or DNase I method were detected by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. A 32P-labeled material migrating with an apparent Mr = 3000 was extracted with chloroform:methanol:HCl and was identified as a mixture of phospholipids. Total 32P incorporation into nuclear envelopes peaked at 5 min of incubation, followed by a decrease in labeled products. This decrease was due to both phosphoprotein phosphatase activity and degradation of the lipid products. The highest protein kinase activity toward endogenous proteins was expressed with [gamma-32P]ATP in the presence of MgCl2; however, some phosphorylation also occurred with MnCl2, CoCl2, NiCl2, and [gamma-32P]GTP in the presence of MgCl2. Nuclear envelope protein phosphorylation was unaffected by cyclic nucleotides and calmodulin, slightly inhibited by CaCl2, MnCl2, CoCl2, disulfides, and sulfhydryl alkylating agents, and strongly inhibited by LaCl3 and phosphatidylglycerol. Nuclear porelamina complexes isolated from phosphorylated envelopes contained phosphoproteins of 7, 20, 51, 59, and 70 kDa. Incubation of pore-lamina complexes isolated from unlabeled envelopes with [gamma-32P]ATP resulted in 32P incorporation into the 20-, 51-, and 50-kDa proteins.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of rat liver nuclear envelopes. I. Characterization of in vitro protein phosphorylation. 630 4

In saponin-permeabilized rat parotid acinar cells, cyclic AMP and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine stimulated the phosphorylation of three particulate proteins with molecular masses of 34, 26 and 22 kDa. The particulate fractions containing 22-kDa phosphoprotein were isolated from the cells labelled with [gamma-32P]ATP and used to study the dephosphorylation of the 22-kDa phosphoprotein. When the labelled fractions were incubated at 30 degrees C in the presence of 0.3 mM CaCl2 and 10 micrograms calmodulin, dephosphorylation of the 22-kDa phosphoprotein was evoked. Further addition of the type 2B phosphatase (Ca2+/calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphatase purified from bovine brain) resulted in a remarkable dephosphorylation of the 22-kDa phosphoprotein. Western immunoblotting showed that type 2B protein phosphatase exists in rat parotid acinar cells. These results suggest that type 2B protein phosphatase in those cells is involved in the dephosphorylation of the 22-kDa phosphoprotein.
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PMID:The dephosphorylation of 22-kDa phosphoprotein by type 2B protein phosphatase in rat parotid acinar cells. 748 71

Intact fowl spermatozoa became almost immotile at 40 degrees C. In contrast, the presence of 10-1000 nmol calyculin A l-1, a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) and -2A (PP2A), permitted activation of sperm motility in a dose-dependent manner. Calyculin A also stimulated the rate of oxygen consumption by spermatozoa, and induced a concomitant decrease in ATP concentrations, suggesting a coupling of ATP hydrolysis to the rate of oxidative phosphorylation. However, the motility and oxygen consumption of spermatozoa loaded with an intracellular Ca2+ chelator, 1,2-bis (2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, tetraacetoxymethyl ester (BAPTA/AM), were not stimulated by calyculin A alone, but only after the subsequent addition of 2 mmol CaCl2 l-1. These results suggest that inhibition of the activities of endogenous PP1 and PP2A may stimulate the motility and metabolic activity of fowl spermatozoa at 40 degrees C via a mechanism that requires intracellular free Ca2+.
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PMID:Stimulation of motility and respiration of intact fowl spermatozoa by calyculin A, a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase-1 and -2A, via a Ca2+-dependent mechanism. 749 Jul 1

We previously reported that insulin stimulation of human platelets induces serine phosphorylation and activation of the cGMP-inhibited cAMP phosphodiesterase (cGI-PDE). Here, we describe methods to detect and partially purify an insulin-stimulated cGI-PDE kinase (cGI-PDE ISK) from lysates of platelets incubated with insulin. Incubation of human platelets with 10(-8) M insulin increased cGI-PDE ISK activity two-fold. The DEAE-Sephacel-purified cGI-PDE ISK phosphorylated the cGI-PDE on serine in a time- and concentration-dependent manner resulting in an increased incorporation of about 0.2 mol of [32P]/mol of cGI-PDE and 15-20% increase in cGI-PDE activity. The phosphorylation of cGI-PDE was not affected by 10 microM PKI, 1 microgram/ml of heparin, 3 mM CaCl2 or 1 mM MnCl2. cGI-PDE ISK did not adsorb to antiphosphotyrosine antibodies. To maintain its activation it was necessary to add protein phosphatase inhibitors to the lysate-buffers. All of these findings are consistent with the conclusion that a serine/threonine phosphorylation of the cGI-PDE ISK is involved in its activation by insulin.
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PMID:Stimulation by insulin of a serine kinase in human platelets that phosphorylates and activates the cGMP-inhibited cAMP phosphodiesterase. 768 45

To assess the physiological function of Ca(2+)-dependent protein phosphatase (PP2B) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the phenotypes of PP2B-deficient mutants were investigated. Although PP2B was dispensable for growth under normal conditions, the mutations did, however, cause growth inhibition under certain stress circumstances. The growth of the mutants was inhibited by NaCl and LiCl, but not by KCl, CaCl2, MgCl2 or nonspecific osmotic stresses. Upon shift to high NaCl medium, intracellular Na+ levels of both wild type yeast and the mutants initially increased at a comparable rate. However, internal Na+ in wild type cells started to decline more rapidly than the mutant cells during cultivation in high NaCl medium, indicating that PP2B is important in maintaining a gradient across the membrane. The protection against salt stress was achieved, at least in part, by the stimulation of Na+ export. The maintenance of a high level of internal K+ in high NaCl medium was also PP2B-dependent. In the presence of the immunosuppressant FK506, the growth behaviour and intracellular Na+ and K+ of wild type cells in high NaCl medium became very similar to those of the PP2B-deficient mutant in a manner dependent on the presence of the FK506 binding protein.
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PMID:Protein phosphatase type 2B (calcineurin)-mediated, FK506-sensitive regulation of intracellular ions in yeast is an important determinant for adaptation to high salt stress conditions. 769 52

Rat brain sodium channels are phosphorylated at multiple serine residues by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. We have identified soluble rat brain phosphatases that dephosphorylate purified sodium channels. Five separable forms of sodium channel phosphatase activity were observed. Three forms (two, approximately 234 kDa and one, 192 kDa) are identical or related to phosphatase 2A, since they were 85-100% inhibited by 10 nM okadaic acid and contained a 36-kDa polypeptide recognized by a monoclonal antibody directed against the catalytic subunit of phosphatase 2A. Immunoblots performed using antibodies specific for isoforms of the B subunit of phosphatase 2A indicate that the two major peaks of phosphatase 2A-like activity, A1 and B1, are enriched in either B' or B alpha. The remaining two activities (approximately 100 kDa each) probably represent calcineurin. Each was relatively insensitive to okadaic acid, was active only in the presence of CaCl2 and calmodulin, and contained a 19-kDa polypeptide recognized by a monoclonal antibody raised against the B subunit of calcinerurin. Treatment of synaptosomes with okadaic acid to inhibit phosphatase 2A or cyclosporin A to inhibit calcineurin increased apparent phosphorylation of sodium channels at cAMP-dependent phosphorylation sites, as assayed by back phosphorylation. These results indicate that phosphatase 2A and calcineurin dephosphorylate sodium channels in brain, and thus may counteract the effect of cAMP-dependent phosphorylation on sodium channel activity.
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PMID:Identification of soluble protein phosphatases that dephosphorylate voltage-sensitive sodium channels in rat brain. 770 24


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