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The homogenate of MC3T3-E1 cells hydrolysed phosphotyrosine, but not phosphoserine or phosphothreonine at acidic pH. It dephosphorylated lysozyme and Raytide (a gastrin analogue peptide) phosphorylated by tyrosine kinase, but showed little activity toward histones phosphorylated by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Dephosphorylation of phosphorylated lysozyme and Raytide were inhibited by zinc and vanadate, but were insensitive to okadaic acid. These data suggest that the osteoblastic cell line MC3T3-E1 has a phosphotyrosyl protein phosphatase-like activity that may participate in cellular regulation involving protein tyrosine phosphorylation.
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PMID:Phosphotyrosyl protein phosphatase-like activity of a clonal osteoblastic cell line (MC3T3-E1 cell). 865 86

Protein phosphatase 2A is a heterotrimeric protein serine/threonine phosphatase consisting of a 36-kDa catalytic C subunit, a 65-kDa structural A subunit, and a variable regulatory B subunit. The B subunits determine the substrate specificity of the enzyme. There have been three families of cellular B subunits identified to date: B55, B56 (B'), and PR72/130. We have now cloned five genes encoding human B56 isoforms. Polypeptides encoded by all but one splice variant (B56gamma1) are phosphoproteins, as shown by mobility shift after treatment with alkaline phosphatase and metabolic labeling with [32P]phosphate. All labeled isoforms contain solely phosphoserine. Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy demonstrates distinct patterns of intracellular targeting by different B56 isoforms. Specifically, B56alpha, B56beta, and B56epsilon complexed with the protein phosphatase 2A A and C subunits localize to the cytoplasm, whereas B56delta, B56gamma1, and B56gamma3 are concentrated in the nucleus. Two isoforms (B56beta and B56delta) are highly expressed in adult brain; here we show that mRNA for these isoforms increases severalfold when neuroblastoma cell lines are induced to differentiate by retinoic acid treatment. These studies demonstrate an increasing diversity of regulatory mechanisms to control the activity of this key intracellular protein phosphatase and suggest distinct functions for isoforms targeted to different intracellular locations.
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PMID:The B56 family of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunits encodes differentiation-induced phosphoproteins that target PP2A to both nucleus and cytoplasm. 870 17

The activation of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cultures increased phosphorylation of the low-molecular-mass neurofilament subunit (NFL) at a site previously identified as Ser55 but had no effect on neurofilament integrity. When PKA was activated in DRG cultures treated with 20-250 nM okadaic acid, neurofilament fragmentation was enhanced, and there was a corresponding increase in phosphorylation of NFL at a novel site. This site was also phosphorylated by PKA in vitro and was determined to be Ser2 by mass spectrometric analysis of the purified chymotryptic phosphopeptide. The PKA sites in NFL were dephosphorylated by the purified catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase-2A but not that of protein phosphatase-1, and phosphoserine-2 was a better substrate than phosphoserine-55. The phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of Ser2 and Ser55 in NFL may therefore be involved in the modulation of neurofilament dynamics through the antagonistic effects of PKA and protein phosphatase-2A.
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PMID:Activation of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in okadaic acid-treated neurons potentiates neurofilament fragmentation and stimulates phosphorylation of Ser2 in the low-molecular-mass neurofilament subunit. 876 85

Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events may critically control junction assembly and stability, as well as regulate the formation of the cadherin-cytoskeleton complex, thus influencing the adhesive function of cells. In the present study, we have used specific activators and inhibitors of protein kinases and phosphatases to analyze the role of protein phosphorylation in the maintenance of epithelial architecture. Okadaic acid and calyculin A cell treatments induced two major effects: a dramatic alteration of the keratin network of epidermal cells and a complete disruption of cell-cell contacts. This loss in cell-cell contacts was not tissue and species restricted and the interactions of keratinocytes with the matrix were not involved. The observed changes were highly specific for these drugs and were obtained in the range of concentrations corresponding to the inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1). They were time- and dose-dependent, and reversible, excluding a cytotoxic effect of the drugs. A decrease in electrophoretic mobility of beta-catenin, a major protein involved in the regulation of intercellular adherens junctions, was observed in keratinocytes and fibroblasts treated with okadaic acid and calyculin A, suggesting a change in the protein phosphorylation level and/or protein conformation. Data from beta-catenin immunocomplex autoradiography performed after 32P in vivo incorporation in untreated and okadaic acid or calyculin A-treated HaCaT cells, demonstrated a higher level of phosphorylation of beta-catenin in treated cells compared to untreated ones. Analysis of 32P-labeled phosphoaminoacids demonstrated that beta-catenin was exclusively phosphorylated on serine-threonine residues but not on tyrosine residues. Immunoprecipitations and Western blotting using anti-phosphoserine and anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies confirmed these data. The change in beta-catenin phosphorylation on serine-threonine residues may play a role in the control of the cohesion between epithelial cells and may be involved in the regulation of the transduction signal.
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PMID:Hyperphosphorylation of beta-catenin on serine-threonine residues and loss of cell-cell contacts induced by calyculin A and okadaic acid in human epidermal cells. 905 23

A protein phosphatase was purified from the stroma of Pea (Pisum sativum L.) chloroplasts that is capable of dephosphorylating synthetic phosphopeptides. Following chromatographic purification of greater than 400-fold, two-dimensional electrophoresis indicated that the stromal protein phosphatase is a 29-kD protein. A similar molecular size was determined for the protein-phosphatase activity using gel-permeation chromatography, indicating that the stromal protein phosphatase is probably a monomer. The purified enzyme was able to dephosphorylate synthetic phosphopeptides, which mimic the thylakoid light-harvesting complex II (LHC-II) N terminus, as well as LHC-II in thylakoid membranes, but did not dephosphorylate the major 64-kD phosphoprotein in the stroma. The stromal protein phosphatase did not discriminate between dephosphorylation of phosphothreonine and phosphoserine residues in synthetic peptide substrates, providing further evidence that this enzyme is distinct from the protein phosphatase localized in thylakoid membranes. The exact physiological role of the stromal protein phosphatase has yet to be determined, but it may function in the dephosphorylation of LHC-II.
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PMID:Purification of a protein phosphatase from chloroplast stroma capable of dephosphorylating the light-harvesting complex-II. 906 87

Components of a protein tyrosine phosphorylation/dephosphorylation network were identified in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Three phosphotyrosine (P-Tyr) proteins of 27, 36, and 52 kDa were identified through their conspicuous immunoreactions with RC20H monoclonal antibodies specific for P-Tyr. These immunoreactions were outcompeted completely by free P-Tyr (5 mM) but not by phosphoserine or phosphothreonine. The P-Tyr content of the three major P-Tyr proteins and several minor proteins increased with their time of incubation in the presence of Mg-ATP and the protein phosphatase inhibitors sodium orthovanadate and sodium fluoride. Incubation of the same extracts with [gamma-32P]ATP but not [alpha-32P]ATP led to the phosphorylation of five polypeptides with molecular masses of 20, 27, 52, 85, and 100 kDa. Human placental protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B, with absolute specificity for P-Tyr, liberated significant quantities of 32Pi from four of the polypeptides, confirming that a portion of the protein-bound phosphate was present as 32P-Tyr. Alkaline phosphatase and the dual-specificity protein phosphatase IphP from the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune UTEX 584 also dephosphorylated these proteins and did so with greater apparent efficiency. Two of the polypeptides were partially purified, and phosphoamino analysis identified 32P-Tyr, [32P]phosphoserine, and [32P]phosphothreonine. Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 cell extracts contained a protein tyrosine phosphatase activity that was abolished in the presence of sodium orthovanadate and inhibited significantly by the sulfhydryl-modifying agents p-hydroxymercuriphenylsulfonic acid and p-hydroxymercuribenzoate as well as by heparin. In Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 the presence and/or phosphorylation status of P-Tyr proteins was influenced by incident photon flux density.
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PMID:Protein tyrosine phosphorylation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. 907 18

Recently, TAP42 was isolated as a high copy suppressor of sit4-, a yeast phosphatase related to protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). TAP42 is related to the murine alpha4 protein, which was discovered independently by its association with Ig-alpha in the B cell receptor complex. Herein we show that a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-alpha4 fusion protein bound the catalytic subunit (C) of human PP2A from monomeric or multimeric preparations of PP2A in a "pull-down" assay. In an overlay assay, the GST-alpha4 protein bound to the phosphorylated and unphosphorylated forms of C that were separated in two-dimensional gels and immobilized on filters. The results show direct and exclusive binding of alpha4 to C. This is unusual because all known regulatory B subunits, or tumor virus antigens, bind stably only to the AC dimer of PP2A. The alpha4-C form of PP2A had an increased activity ratio compared with the AC form of PP2A when myelin basic protein phosphorylated by mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphorylase a were used as substrates. Recombinant alpha4 cleaved from GST was phosphorylated by p56(lck) tyrosine kinase and protein kinase C. A FLAG-tagged alpha4 expressed in COS7 cells was recovered as a protein containing phosphoserine and coimmunoprecipitated with the C but not the A subunit of PP2A. Treatment of cells with rapamycin prevented the association of PP2A with FLAG-alpha4. The results reveal a novel heterodimer alpha4-C form of PP2A that may be involved in rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathways in mammalian cells.
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PMID:B cell receptor-associated protein alpha4 displays rapamycin-sensitive binding directly to the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. 938 Jun 85

The apical membrane of distal nephron epithelium (A6) has a Ca(2+)-dependent outwardly rectifying Cl- channel with single channel conductances of 3 pS for outward current and 1 pS for inward current under the basal condition. The single channel conductance for inward currents increased as cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) was elevated, while the single channel conductance for outward currents did not change at the range of [Ca2+]c from 10 nM to 1 mM. Insulin (100 nM) increased the single channel conductance for the inward current by increasing the sensitivity to cytosolic Ca2+ by 400-fold, but did not affect the single channel conductance for the outward current. Further, insulin increased the open probability of the channel. These effects of insulin were completely blocked by cyclosporin-A, an inhibitor of protein phosphatase type 2B (PP2B) which dephosphorylates phospho-tyrosine in addition to phosphoserine/threonine, but not by okadaic acid, an inhibitor of protein phosphatase type 1 and 2A. Further, these effects of insulin were also completely blocked by W7, an antagonist of calmodulin which is required for activation of PP2B. Lavendustin A, an inhibitor of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK), mimicked these effects of insulin; this action of lavendustin A required 1 hr after its application, while within 30 min after its application lavendustin A had no significant effects on the single channel conductance. On the other hand, lavendustin A blocked the insulin action for a relatively short time period (i.e., within 30 min after their application). However, H89 (an inhibitor of protein kinase A) or H7 (an inhibitor of protein kinases A, C and G) did not mimic the insulin action. Application of PP2B or protein tyrosine phosphatase to the cytosolic surface of the inside-out patch membrane increased the single channel conductance and the open probability as did insulin in cell-attached patches. The insulin-induced increases in single channel conductance and open probability were reversibly decreased by application of PTK catalytic subunit in the presence of ATP through a decrease in the sensitivity to cytosolic Ca2+, but not by protein kinase A. These observations suggest that as intracellular signalling of insulin action, PP2B-mediated dephosphorylation of phospho-tyrosine of the channel protein (or channel-associated protein) is a novel mechanism for regulation of single channel conductance, and that at least two different types of PTKs regulate the channel characteristics.
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PMID:Protein phosphatase 2B-dependent pathway of insulin action on single Cl- channel conductance in renal epithelium. 949 29

The ptp gene of Acinetobacter johnsonii was previously reported to encode a low-molecular-mass protein, Ptp, whose amino acid sequence, predicted from the theoretical analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the gene, exhibits a high degree of similarity with those of different eukaryotic and prokaryotic phosphotyrosine-protein phophatases. We have now overexpressed the ptp gene in Escherichia coli cells, purified the Ptp protein to homogeneity by a single-step chromatographic procedure, and analysed its functional properties. We have shown that Ptp can catalyse the dephosphorylation of p-nitrophenyl phosphate and phosphotyrosine, but has no effect on phosphoserine or phosphothreonine. Its activity is blocked by ammonium molybdate and sodium orthovanadate, which are strong inhibitors of phosphotyrosine-protein phosphatases, as well as by N-ethylmaleimide and iodoacetic acid. Such specificity of Ptp for phosphotyrosine has been confirmed by the observation that it can dephosphorylate endogenous proteins phosphorylated on tyrosine, but not proteins modified on either serine or threonine. In addition, Ptp has been shown to quantitatively dephosphorylate two exogenous peptides, derived respectively from leech hirudin and human gastrin, previously phosphorylated on tyrosine. Moreover, site-directed mutagenesis experiments performed on Cys11 and Arg16, which are both present in the sequence motif (H/V)C(X5)R(S/T) typical of eukaryotic phosphotyrosine-protein phosphatases, have demonstrated that each amino acid residue is essential for the catalytic activity of Ptp. Taken together, these data provide evidence that Ptp is a member of the phosphotyrosine-protein phosphatase family. Furthermore, in search for the biological function of Ptp, we have found that it can specifically dephosphorylate an endogenous protein kinase, termed Ptk, which is known to autophosphorylate at multiple tyrosine residues in the inner membrane of Acinetobacter johnsonii cells. This represents the first identification of a protein substrate for a bacterial phosphotyrosine-protein phosphatase, and therefore constitutes a possible model for analysing the role of reversible phosphorylation on tyrosine in the regulation of microbial physiology.
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PMID:Functional characterization of the low-molecular-mass phosphotyrosine-protein phosphatase of Acinetobacter johnsonii. 957 Oct 56

Protein tyrosine kinases and phosphatases play a vital role in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation in animal systems. However, none of these enzymes has been characterized from higher plants. In this study, we isolated a cDNA encoding a putative protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) from Arabidopsis (referred to as AtPTP1). The expression level of AtPTP1 is highly sensitive to environmental stresses. High-salt conditions increased AtPTP1 mRNA levels, whereas cold treatment rapidly eliminated the AtPTP1 transcript. The recombinant AtPTP1 protein specifically hydrolyzed phosphotyrosine, but not phosphoserine/threonine, in protein substrates. Site-directed mutagenesis defined two highly conserved amino acids, cysteine-265 and aspartate-234, as being essential for the phosphatase activity of the AtPTP1 protein, suggesting a common catalytic mechanism for PTPases from all eukaryotic systems. In summary, we have identified AtPTP1 as a tyrosine-specific protein phosphatase that may function in stress responses of higher plants.
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PMID:Molecular characterization of a tyrosine-specific protein phosphatase encoded by a stress-responsive gene in Arabidopsis. 959 42


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