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Noninsulin-dependent diabetes is associated with a decrease in the activity of sarcolemmal phosphatase 1, but no change in the activities of phosphatase 2A, 2B, or 2C. Also unaffected by diabetes were the activities of protein kinase C, cAMP-dependent protein kinase and calcium-calmodulin protein kinase. Because of the decrease in phosphatase 1 activity, 32P incorporation into sarcolemmal phosphoproteins catalyzed by either intrinsic protein kinases or extrinsic cAMP-dependent protein kinase was elevated in the diabetic. Among the proteins whose phosphorylation was elevated in diabetes was the phospholamban-like protein, which has been implicated in the regulation of ATP-dependent calcium transport. The phosphate-linked increase could be prevented by exposing the membranes to a phosphatase inhibitor and either extrinsic cAMP-dependent protein kinase or alamethicin. In addition to the phosphatase-linked effects, analysis of individual sarcolemmal phosphoproteins by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that diabetes caused a specific elevation in membrane phosphorylation of some proteins (43 kDa and 78 kDa), but a decrease in the phosphorylation state of other phosphoproteins (31 kDa and 49 kDa). The data indicate that membrane phosphorylation is dramatically altered by diabetes. The possibility that this contributes to altered myocardial function is discussed.
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PMID:Defective sarcolemmal phosphorylation associated with noninsulin-dependent diabetes. 215 49

It is shown that the catalytic subunit of an inositol phosphate-stimulated protein phosphatase (a member of the type-1 protein phosphatase family) purified from bovine brain membranes is phosphorylated in vitro by protein kinase C, but not by protein kinase A or by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. The phosphorylation of the protein phosphatase by protein kinase C induces an increased sensitivity to stimulation by Ins (1,4,5)P3, Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 and heparin.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of an inositol phosphate-stimulated protein phosphatase by protein kinase C. 216 63

The present study was undertaken to elucidate aspects of the regulatory mechanisms leading to enhanced glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity of muscle after physical exertion. Biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis muscle of healthy volunteers before and after 60 min of bicycle exercise at 60% of their maximal aerobic capacity. Insulin binding to wheat germ agglutinin-purified muscle insulin receptors as well as basal and insulin-stimulated receptor kinase activity toward an exogenous substrate were unaltered by exercise. Muscle glycogen levels diminished from 3.35 +/- 0.26 to 1.85 +/- 0.13 mg/100 mg muscle (P less than 0.01) and the half-maximal activation constant of glycogen synthase for glucose 6-phosphate decreased from 0.62 +/- 0.05 to 0.25 +/- 0.02 mM (P less than 0.001). Total glycogen synthase activity was unchanged. In the absence of phosphatase inhibitors, glucose 6-phosphate-independent glycogen synthase activity of the crude enzyme extract increased during in vitro incubation. The initial rate of activation (through dephosphorylations) of glycogen synthase was 0.18 +/- 0.06 vs. 0.37 +/- 0.03 U.min-1.mg-1 protein before and after exercise, respectively (P less than 0.02). The total as well as the glycogen-associated phosphoprotein phosphatase activity was, however, unaffected by exercise.
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PMID:Exercise-enhanced activation of glycogen synthase in human skeletal muscle. 216 1

Goat cauda-epididymal intact sperm ecto [32P] proteins phosphorylated in presence of exogenous [gamma-32P]ATP by an endogenous ecto-cyclic AMP-independent protein kinase (CIK), have been found to lose 32P when the labelled cells are incubated at 37 degrees C in a modified Ringer's solution. Analysis of the 32P-labelled products of the turnover of the ecto-phosphoproteins show that 32Pi rather than 32P-labelled peptides, is released from the cell-surface phosphoproteins indicating that the turnover of the ecto-phosphoproteins is mediated by an endogenous sperm outer-surface phosphoprotein phosphatase (ecto-PPase). The ecto-PPase is not a non-specific phosphatase since unlabelled p-nitrophenyl phosphate, beta-glycerophosphate or ATP at a relatively high concentration (1 mM each) has no appreciable effect on the dephosphorylation of the cell-surface proteins. The intact-sperm ecto-proteins phosphorylated and then dephosphorylated by the endogenous ecto-CIK and PPase respectively, undergo rephosphorylation by the cell-surface CIK. The data are consistent with the view that sperm external surface possesses a novel coupled-ecto-CIK and PPase enzyme system that regulates the phosphorylated states of the intact-sperm ecto-proteins by a cyclic mechanism of protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation.
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PMID:Occurrence of a coupled-enzyme system on the intact-sperm outer surface that phosphorylates and dephosphorylates ecto-proteins. 216 95

Ca2(+)-dependent protein phosphatase was purified from scallop adductor smooth muscle by a combination of DEAE-Toyoperal 650S ion exchange chromatographies and gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300. The phosphatase consisted of two subunits having molecular weights of 60 and 19 kDa. Phosphorylated regulatory light chain-a (RLC-a) was dephosphorylated by this phosphatase both in free and bound states in myosin prepared from the opaque portion of scallop smooth muscle (opaque myosin). The dephosphorylation was activated by Ca2+. The half maximal activation was a 1 microM free Ca2+ in the presence of calmodulin and 7 microM free Ca2+ in the absence of calmodulin. Opaque myosin phosphorylated at the heavy chain was not dephosphorylated with this phosphatase. p-Nitrophenyl phosphate was dephosphorylated. In addition to Ca2+, the phosphatase activity for RLC-a was activated by Mn2+, while p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity was activated by Mg2+ more strongly than by Mn2+. The pH-activity curves showed a maximum at pH 7 in the presence of Mn2+, but at around pH 8 in the presence of Mg2+. This phosphatase is similar to phosphatase 2B or calcineurin. The possible regulatory function of this phosphatase in scallop catch muscle is discussed.
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PMID:Ca2(+)-dependent protein phosphatase which dephosphorylates regulatory light chain-a in scallop smooth muscle myosin. 216 91

We have characterized a serine/threonine protein kinase from Xenopus metaphase-II-blocked oocytes, which phosphorylates in vitro the microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2). The MAP2 kinase activity, undetectable in prophase oocytes, is activated during the progesterone-induced meiotic maturation (G2-M transition of the cell cycle). p-Nitrophenyl phosphate, a phosphatase inhibitor, is required to prevent spontaneous deactivation of the MAP2 kinase in crude preparations; conversely, the partially purified enzyme can be in vitro deactivated by the low-Mr polycation-stimulated (PCSL) phosphatase (also termed protein phosphatase 2A2), working as a phosphoserine/phosphothreonine-specific phosphatase and not as a phosphotyrosyl phosphatase indicating that phosphorylation of serine/threonine is necessary for its activity. S6 kinase, a protein kinase activated during oocyte maturation which phosphorylates in vitro ribosomal protein S6 and lamin C, can be deactivated in vitro by PCSL phosphatase. S6 kinase from prophase oocytes can also be activated in vitro in fractions known to contain all the factors necessary to convert pre-M-phase-promoting factor (pre-MPF) to MPF. Active MAP2 kinase can activate in vitro the inactive S6 kinase present in prophase oocytes or reactivate S6 kinase previously inactivated in vitro by PCSL phosphatase. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that the MAP2 kinase is a link of the meiosis signalling pathway and is activated by a serine/threonine kinase. This will lead to the regulation of further steps in the cell cycle, such as microtubular reorganisation and S6 kinase activation.
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PMID:In vivo activation of a microtubule-associated protein kinase during meiotic maturation of the Xenopus oocyte. 217 Jan 26

Sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) purified from spinach leaves harvested in the dark, was activated by mammalian protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). Activation of SPS in a fraction from darkened spinach leaves was largely prevented by either okadaic acid or microcystin-LR (specific inhibitors of PPI and PP2A), while inhibitor-2 (a PP1 inhibitor) or Mg2+ (essential for PP2C) were ineffective. In vivo, okadaic acid and microcystin-LR prevented the light-induced activation of SPS and decreased sucrose biosynthesis and CO2 fixation. It is concluded that PP2A is the major SPS phosphatase in spinach. This study is the first to employ microcystin-LR for modulating protein phosphorylation in vivo.
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PMID:Sucrose-phosphate synthase is dephosphorylated by protein phosphatase 2A in spinach leaves. Evidence from the effects of okadaic acid and microcystin. 217 89

Sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS; EC 2.4.1.14) extracted from darkened spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaves has a low activation state, defined as the ratio of activity measured with limiting substrates (plus the inhibitor Pi) to activity with saturating substrates (maximum velocity). Preincubation at 25 degrees C of desalted crude extracts from darkened leaves resulted in a time-dependent increase in activation state that was inhibited by Pi [IC50 (concentration causing 50% inhibition) approximately 3 mM], molybdate, okadaic acid (IC50 approximately 25 nM) and vanadate, but was stimulated by fluoride. The "spontaneous activation" of SPS in vitro was enhanced slightly by exogenous MgCl2 (up to 5 mM) and exhibited a pH optimum of 7.0 to 7.5. Radioactive phosphate incorporated into SPS during labeling of excised leaves with [32P]Pi in the dark was lost with time when extracts were incubated at 25 degrees C. This loss in radiolabel was substantially reduced by vanadate. These results provide direct evidence for action of an endogenous protein phosphatase(s) using SPS as substrate. The spontaneous activation achieved in vitro could be reversed by subsequent addition of 1 mM Mg.ATP; the activation/inactivation achieved in vitro was similar in magnitude to the dark-light regulation observed in vivo. Moreover, feeding okadaic acid to excised leaves in the dark blocked subsequent light activation of SPS without affecting photosynthetic rate. These results are consistent with the notion that SPS contains phosphorylation site(s) that reduce enzyme activation state and that dephosphorylation of these residue(s) is the mechanism of light activation. Regulation of the protein phosphatase by Pi may be of physiological significance.
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PMID:Activation of sucrose-phosphate synthase from darkened spinach leaves by an endogenous protein phosphatase. 217 86

One p-nitrophenyl phosphate phosphatase (A) and five protein phosphatases (B, C, D, E, F) with neutral pH optimum (7.0-7.5) were partially purified from human platelets. Protein phosphatases were activated by Mn2+ (B-F), Mg2+ (D, F) or Ca2+ (F) but all of them had substantial activity even in the presence of EDTA. The activity of phosphatase D was predominant when assayed in the presence of EDTA. Phosphatase F was significantly enhanced by Ca2+ and calmodulin and therefore considered to be calcineurin. Without strict substrate specificity, all protein phosphatases (B-F) dephosphorylated phosphoproteins like actin binding protein, 47k protein and myosin light chain. Thus, it was suggested that protein phosphatases might play a role in the down regulation of platelet function not only in the resting but agonist-stimulated platelets.
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PMID:Platelet protein phosphatases and their endogenous substrates. 217 85

A 10-50-fold, biphasic increase in the rate of 32Pi labeling of eIF-4E was closely correlated with the induction of protein and glycoprotein biosynthesis when resting murine splenic B lymphocytes (B cells) were activated by bacterial lipopolysaccharide or the combination of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and ionomycin. The fraction of eIF-4E which was phosphorylated only increased from 46% in resting cells to 83% in lipopolysaccharide-activated cells. This discrepancy between the increase in the fraction of phosphorylated eIF-4E and the increase in 32Pi labeling suggested that the phosphoryl group of eIF-4E turns over slowly in resting B cells compared with activated cells. The turnover rate for the eIF-4E phosphate moiety in lipopolysaccharide-activated cells was rapid (t1/2 = 2 h) in comparison to the eIF-4E polypeptide chain, which did not turn over detectably in 6 h. Neither protein kinase C nor a cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinase appeared to be involved in eIF-4E phosphorylation in B cells, based on the observations that the metabolic labeling of eIF-4E by 32Pi was insensitive to the protein kinase inhibitors H-7 and HA1004, and that maximal labeling occurred after protein kinase C activity was "down-regulated" to very low levels in phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate/ionomycin-activated cells. Dephosphorylation in vivo was blocked by okadaic acid (IC50 = 200 nM). These results indicate that a rapid phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of eIF-4E is associated with high translation rates during the activation of B cells, and implicate protein phosphatase-1 (or possibly-2A) in the dephosphorylation of the initiation factor.
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PMID:Increased rate of phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of the translational initiation factor eIF-4E correlates with the induction of protein and glycoprotein biosynthesis in activated B lymphocytes. 224 37


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