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Query: EC:3.1.3.16 (calcineurin)
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The effect of insulin on glycogen synthesis and key enzymes of glycogen metabolism, glycogen phosphorylase and glycogen synthase, was studied in HepG2 cells. Insulin stimulated glycogen synthesis 1.83-3.30 fold depending on insulin concentration in the medium. Insulin caused a maximum of 65% decrease in glycogen phosphorylase 'a' and 110% increase in glycogen synthase activities in 5 min. Although significant changes in enzyme activities were observed with as low as 0.5 nM insulin level, the maximum effects were observed with 100 nM insulin. There was a significant inverse correlation between activities of glycogen phosphorylase 'a' and glycogen synthase 'a' (R2= 0.66, p < 0.001). Addition of 30 mM glucose caused a decrease in phosphorylase 'a' activity in the absence of insulin and this effect was additive with insulin up to 10 nM concentration. The inactivation of phosphorylase 'a' by insulin was prevented by wortmannin and rapamycin but not by PD98059. The activation of glycogen synthase by insulin was prevented by wortmannin but not by PD98059 or rapamycin. In fact, PD98059 slightly stimulated glycogen synthase activation by insulin. Under these experimental conditions, insulin decreased glycogen synthase kinase-3beta activity by 30-50% and activated more than 4-fold particulate protein phosphatase- activity and 1.9-fold protein kinase B activity; changes in all of these enzyme activities were abolished by wortmannin. The inactivation of GSK-3beta and activation of PKB by insulin were associated with their phosphorylation and this was also reversed by wortmannin. The addition of protein phosphatase-1 inhibitors, okadaic acid and calyculin A, completely abolished the effects of insulin on both enzymes. These data suggest that stimulation of glycogen synthase by insulin in HepG2 cells is mediated through the PI-3 kinase pathway by activating PKB and PP-1G and inactivating GSK-3beta. On the other hand, inactivation of phosphorylase by insulin is mediated through the PI-3 kinase pathway involving a rapamycin-sensitive p70(s6k) and PP-1G. These experiments demonstrate that insulin regulates glycogen phosphorylase and glycogen synthase through (i) a common signaling pathway at least up to PI-3 kinase and bifurcates downstream and (ii) that PP-1 activity is essential for the effect of insulin.
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PMID:Reciprocal regulation of glycogen phosphorylase and glycogen synthase by insulin involving phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase and protein phosphatase-1 in HepG2 cells. 1105 55

On TGF-beta binding, the TGF-beta receptor directly phosphorylates and activates the transcription factors Smad2/3, leading to G(1) arrest. Here, we present evidence for a second, parallel, TGF-beta-dependent pathway for cell cycle arrest, achieved via inhibition of p70(s6k). TGF-beta induces association of its receptor with protein phosphatase-2A (PP2A)-Balpha. Concomitantly, three PP2A-subunits, Balpha, Abeta, and Calpha, associate with p70(s6k), leading to its dephosphorylation and inactivation. Although either pathway is sufficient to induce G(1) arrest, abrogation of both, the inhibition of p70(s6k), and transcription through Smad proteins is required for release of epithelial cells from TGF-beta-induced G(1) arrest. TGF-beta thereby modulates the translational and posttranscriptional control of cell cycle progression.
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PMID:TGF-beta inhibits p70 S6 kinase via protein phosphatase 2A to induce G(1) arrest. 1112 2

Neurabin I, a neuronal actin-binding protein, binds protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and p70 ribosomal S6 protein kinase (p70S6K), both proteins implicated in cytoskeletal dynamics. We expressed wild-type and mutant neurabins fused to green fluorescent protein in Cos7, HEK293, and hippocampal neurons. Biochemical and cellular studies showed that an N-terminal F-actin-binding domain dictated neurabin I localization at actin cytoskeleton and promoted disassembly of stress fibers. Deletion of the C-terminal coiled-coil and sterile alpha motif domains abolished neurabin I dimerization and induced filopodium extension. Immune complex assays showed that neurabin I recruited an active PP1 via a PP1-docking sequence,(457)KIKF(460). Mutation of the PP1-binding motif or PP1 inhibition by okadaic acid and calyculin A abolished filopodia and restored stress fibers in cells expressing neurabin I. In vitro and in vivo studies suggested that the actin-binding domain attenuated protein kinase A (PKA) phosphorylation of neurabin I. Modification of a major PKA site, serine-461, impaired PP1 binding. Finally, p70S6K was excluded from neurabin I/PP1 complexes and required the displacement of PP1 for recruitment to neurabin I. These studies provided new insights into the assembly and regulation of a neurabin I/PP1 complex that controls actin rearrangement to promote spine development in mammalian neurons.
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PMID:Targeting protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) to the actin cytoskeleton: the neurabin I/PP1 complex regulates cell morphology. 1205 77

Certain amino acids, like glutamine and leucine, induce an anabolic response in liver. They activate p70 ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70S6K) and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) involved in protein and fatty acids synthesis, respectively. In contrast, the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which senses the energy state of the cell and becomes activated under metabolic stress, inactivates by phosphorylation key enzymes in biosynthetic pathways thereby conserving ATP. In this paper, we studied the effect of AMPK activation and of protein phosphatase inhibitors, on the amino-acid-induced activation of p70S6K and ACC in hepatocytes in suspension. AMPK was activated under anoxic conditions or by incubation with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxyamide ribonucleoside (AICAr) or oligomycin, an inhibitor of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Incubation of hepatocytes with amino acids activated p70S6K via multiple phosphorylation. It also activated ACC by a phosphatase-dependent mechanism but did not modify AMPK activation. Conversely, the amino-acid-induced activation of both ACC and p70S6K was blocked or reversed when AMPK was activated. This AMPK activation increased Ser79 phosphorylation in ACC but decreased Thr389 phosphorylation in p70S6K. Protein phosphatase inhibitors prevented p70S6K activation when added prior to the incubation with amino acids, whereas they enhanced p70S6K activation when added after the preincubation with amino acids. It is concluded that (a) AMPK blocks amino-acid-induced activation of ACC and p70S6K, directly by phosphorylating Ser79 in ACC, and indirectly by inhibiting p70S6K phosphorylation, and (b) both activation and inhibition of protein phosphatases are involved in the activation of p70S6K by amino acids. p70S6K adds to an increasing list of targets of AMPK in agreement with the inhibition of energy-consuming biosynthetic pathways.
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PMID:Control of p70 ribosomal protein S6 kinase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase by AMP-activated protein kinase and protein phosphatases in isolated hepatocytes. 1215 72

1. Our previous studies revealed that the immunosuppressive agent, FTY720, mainly induces mitochondria-involved apoptosis in some types of cancer cells, since Bcl-2 overexpression prevents the FTY720-induction of apoptotic stimuli. Furthermore, FTY720 induces G0/G1 cell cycle arrest. The present study further examines the correlation between intracellular signaling kinases with FTY720-induced mitochondria-involved apoptosis. 2. Human T cell leukemia Jurkat was exposed to FTY720. Dephosphorylation of Akt occurred in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. FTY720 also induced Bad (Ser(136)) and ribosomal p70S6 kinase (p70(S6k)) (Thr(389)) dephosphorylation. 3. FTY720-induced Akt dephosphorylation was not because of Akt upstream phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI 3-kinase) pathway inhibition. 4. FTY720 also induced Akt dephosphorylation in human B cell leukemia BALL-1. BALL-1 cells were resistant to FTY720-induced apoptosis. 5. Okadaic acid (OA) inhibited the FTY720-induced dephosphorylation of Akt and p70(S6k), suggesting that FTY720 promotes Ser/Thr protein phosphatase (PP) activity. 6. OA partially inhibited FTY720-induced caspase-3 activation. 7. PP2A or PP2A-like phosphatase was temporarily activated in cells exposed to FTY720. In addition, FTY720 activated purified PP2A (ABC). 8. Overall, the results suggest that FTY720 activated PP2A or PP2A-like phosphatase and dephosphorylated Akt pathway factors resulting in the enhancement of apoptosis via mitochondria.
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PMID:A novel immunosuppressive agent FTY720 induced Akt dephosphorylation in leukemia cells. 1271 31

Major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain (MICA) is a cell stress-regulated molecule recognized by cytotoxic cells expressing the NKG2D molecule. MICA can be induced on T cells after CD3 or CD28 engagement. Here, we investigated the intracellular pathways leading to activation-induced expression of MICA. The Src kinase inhibitor PP1 inhibited up-regulated expression of MICA on anti-CD3-stimulated T cells. Downstream signaling routes involved mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase (MEK)1/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), p38 MAPK, and calcineurin, as MICA expression was prevented by U0126, SB202190, cyclosporin A, and FK506. Also, Lck and Fyn as well as MEK1/ERK and p38 MAPK were found to regulate MICA expression in anti-CD28/phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-stimulated T cells. Expression of MICA on activated T cells involved interleukin-2-dependent signaling routes triggered by Janus tyrosine kinases/signal transducer and activators of transcription and p70(S)(6) kinase, as it could be inhibited by AG490 and rapamycin. This is the first demonstration of the intracellular pathways involved in activation-induced expression of MICA, which may reveal potential targets for immune intervention to modulate MICA expression in pathological disorders.
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PMID:Up-regulated expression of MICA on activated T lymphocytes involves Lck and Fyn kinases and signaling through MEK1/ERK, p38 MAP kinase, and calcineurin. 1277 14

Calcineurin (PP2B) is a calcium/calmodulin-activated, serine-threonine phosphatase that transmits signals to the nucleus through the dephosphorylation and translocation of nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) transcription factors. Whereas calcineurin-NFAT signaling has been implicated in regulating the hypertrophic growth of the myocardium, considerable controversy persists as to its role in maintaining versus initiating hypertrophy, its role in pathological versus physiological hypertrophy, and its role in heart failure. To address these issues, NFAT-luciferase reporter transgenic mice were generated and characterized. These mice showed robust and calcineurin-specific activation in the heart that was inhibited with cyclosporin A. In the adult heart, NFAT-luciferase activity was upregulated in a delayed, but sustained manner throughout eight weeks of pathological cardiac hypertrophy induced by pressure-overload, or more dramatically following myocardial infarction-induced heart failure. In contrast, physiological hypertrophy as produced in two separate models of exercise training failed to show significant calcineurin-NFAT coupling in the heart at multiple time points, despite measurable increases in heart to body weight ratios. Moreover, stimulation of hypertrophy with growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor-1 (GH-IGF-1) failed to activate calcineurin-NFAT signaling in the heart or in culture, despite hypertrophy, activation of Akt, and activation of p70 S6K. Calcineurin Abeta gene-targeted mice also showed a normal hypertrophic response after GH-IGF-1 infusion. Lastly, exercise- or GH-IGF-1-induced cardiac growth failed to show induction of hypertrophic marker gene expression compared with pressure-overloaded animals. Although a direct cause-and-effect relationship between NFAT-luciferase activity and pathological hypertrophy was not proven here, our results support the hypothesis that separable signaling pathways regulate pathological versus physiological hypertrophic growth of the myocardium, with calcineurin-NFAT potentially serving a regulatory role that is more specialized for maladaptive hypertrophy and heart failure.
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PMID:Calcineurin/NFAT coupling participates in pathological, but not physiological, cardiac hypertrophy. 2378 3

In this study we compared the content and phosphorylation levels of several molecules believed to regulate muscle hypertrophy and fiber type changes in the extensor digitorum longus (EDL), soleus, diaphragm, and heart of adult (6 months), aged (30 months), and very aged (36 months) Fischer 344 x Brown Norway rats. With aging, the mass of the EDL and soleus decreased significantly (approximately 38% and approximately 36%, respectively), the diaphragm's mass remained unchanged while the mass of the heart increased (approximately 35%). Western blotting demonstrated that calcineurin (CnA), the 70-kDa ribosomal S6 kinase (p70(S6k)), glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK-3beta), and the phosphorylated forms of GSK-3beta and p70(S6k) (p-GSK-3beta(Ser9) and p-p70(S6kThr389)) were regulated differently with aging and between muscle types. Total p70(S6k), GSK-3beta, and p-GSK-3beta(Ser9) decreased in the aged-atrophic EDL and soleus while p-p70(S6kThr389) increased. Although total p70(S6k) content diminished in the continuously active diaphragm, phosphorylation of p70(S6k )remained unchanged. Conversely, the expression of GSK-3beta and p-GSK-3beta(Ser9) increased in the diaphragm. With aging, the amount of p-p70(S6kThr389) decreased approximately 56% in the heart while p-GSK-3beta( Ser9) increased approximately 193%. Interestingly, CnA content remained unchanged in the diaphragm, increased approximately 204% in the EDL, and decreased approximately 30% and approximately 65% with aging in the soleus and heart, respectively. These results indicate remarkable differences in the regulation of molecules thought to govern protein synthesis and changes in contractile protein expression.
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PMID:Regulation of p70S6k, GSK-3beta, and calcineurin in rat striated muscle during aging. 1604 21

Spinophilin/neurabin 2 has been isolated independently by two laboratories as a protein interacting with protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and F-actin. Gene analysis and biochemical approaches have contributed to define a number of distinct modular domains in spinophilin that govern protein-protein interactions such as two F-actin-, three potential Src homology 3 (SH3)-, a receptor- and a PP1-binding domains, a PSD95/DLG/zo-1 (PDZ) and three coiled-coil domains, and a potential leucine/isoleucine zipper (LIZ) motif. More than 30 partner proteins of spinophilin have been discovered, including cytoskeletal and cell adhesion molecules, enzymes, guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEF) and regulator of G-protein signalling protein, membrane receptors, ion channels and others proteins like the tumour suppressor ARF. The physiological relevance of some of these interactions remains to be demonstrated. However, spinophilin structure suggests that the protein is a multifunctional protein scaffold that regulates both membrane and cytoskeletal functions. Spinophilin plays important functions in the nervous system where it is implicated in spine morphology and density regulation, synaptic plasticity and neuronal migration. Spinophilin regulates also seven-transmembrane receptor signalling and may provide a link between some of these receptors and intracellular mitogenic signalling events dependent on p70(S6) kinase and Rac G protein-GEF. Strikingly a role for spinophilin in cell growth was demonstrated and this effect was enhanced by its interaction with ARF. Here we review the current knowledge of the protein partners of spinophilin and present the available data that are contributing to the appreciation of spinophilin functions.
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PMID:Spinophilin: from partners to functions. 1673 66

In the present study, the BCAAs (branched-chain amino acids) leucine and valine caused a significant suppression in the loss of body weight in mice bearing a cachexia-inducing tumour (MAC16), producing a significant increase in skeletal muscle wet weight, through an increase in protein synthesis and a decrease in degradation. Leucine attenuated the increased phosphorylation of PKR (double-stranded-RNA-dependent protein kinase) and eIF2alpha (eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha) in skeletal muscle of mice bearing the MAC16 tumour, due to an increased expression of PP1 (protein phosphatase 1). Weight loss in mice bearing the MAC16 tumour was associated with an increased amount of eIF4E bound to its binding protein 4E-BP1 (eIF4E-binding protein 1), and a progressive decrease in the active eIF4G-eIF4E complex due to hypophosphorylation of 4E-BP1. This may be due to a reduction in the phosphorylation of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), which may also be responsible for the decreased phosphorylation of p70(S6k) (70 kDa ribosomal S6 kinase). There was also a 5-fold increase in the phosphorylation of eEF2 (eukaryotic elongation factor 2), which would also decrease protein synthesis through a decrease in translation elongation. Treatment with leucine increased phosphorylation of mTOR and p70(S6k), caused hyperphosphorylation of 4E-BP1, reduced the amount of 4E-BP1 associated with eIF4E and caused an increase in the eIF4G-eIF4E complex, together with a reduction in phosphorylation of eEF2. These changes would be expected to increase protein synthesis, whereas a reduction in the activation of PKR would be expected to attenuate the increased protein degradation.
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PMID:Effect of branched-chain amino acids on muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia. 1762 10


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