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Query: EC:3.1.3.16 (calcineurin)
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The phosphate releasing activity from calf scapula cartilage was resolved by DEAE-cellulose chromatography into two distinct phosphatase activities. The activity eluted first from the column (phosphatase I) was active towards a variety of phosphate esters and several linear oligo phosphates including sodium pyrophosphate, while the second phosphatase activity (phosphatase II) was active only towards simple phosphate esters. Phosphatase I acted towards oligo phosphates in a stepwise fashion hydrolyzing one phosphate at a time. Both phosphatase are sialoproteins and can transfer phosphate from any of their substrates into other than water phosphate acceptor molecules such as glycerol. By several criteria, it can be concluded that the two phosphatases are different enzyme entities.
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PMID:Resolution, specificity and transphosphorylase activity of calcifying cartilage alkaline phosphatases. 0 99

We have shown that an acidic phosphoprotein phosphatase (APP-ase) has a different pattern of postnatal maturation in the spleen, thymus and liver of rats and mice. The APP-ase activity increases during the first eight months of postnatal life in the spleen of rats (when it attains an 8--10 times higher value than at birth) and up to the sixth month of life in the spleen of mice. It increases considerably during the first two weeks of postnatal life in the thymus of rats and mice; in the liver of rats it reaches maximum activity before birth, but continues to increase up to the sixth month of postnatal life in the liver of mice. The results show also that the APP-ase from the spleen, thymus and liver of rats is equally active in dephosphorylating ATP and phenyl phosphate during the whole life span of rats, but not in relation to beta-glycerol phosphate. After analyzing its substrate specificity, its pH dependence in relation to different substrates, its kinetic properties, as well as its behaviour towards ascorbic acid and different inhibitors (sodium tungstate and sodium molybdate, L-tartrate, L-phenylalanine and L-cysteine) we have come to the conclusion that the rat spleen APP-ase is different from "nonspecific" acid and alkaline phosphatases and very similar to the EC 3.1.3.16 acid phosphoprotein phosphatase.
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PMID:The ontogenetic evolution of acidic phosphoprotein phosphatase activity in the lymphatic tissue and the liver of the rat. 21 22

Ribosomal protein S6 is the principal phosphoprotein of the eucaryotic ribosome that becomes multiply phosphorylated on serine residues in response to a wide variety of mitogenic stimuli. In this paper the principal protein phosphatases able to dephosphorylate S6 were characterized in Xenopus laevis ovary and eggs. Two enzymes termed peak I and peak II were found to account for most S6 phosphatase activity in both oocytes and eggs. The peak I enzyme had an apparent Mr of 200,000 on gel filtration, dephosphorylated the beta subunit of phosphorylase kinase and phosphorylase a, and was inhibited by inhibitor 1 and inhibitor 2, suggesting it was similar to protein phosphatase 1. The peak II enzyme was purified over 12,000-fold and had an apparent Mr = 55,000 on glycerol gradient centrifugation. This phosphatase could dephosphorylate all sites in S6 but was unable to dephosphorylate phosphorylase a or phosphorylase kinase. However, it was inhibited by nanomolar concentrations of inhibitor 1 and inhibitor 2. These results indicate the peak II enzyme represents a new class of highly specific protein phosphatase and suggest that inhibition of dephosphorylation in cellular extracts by inhibitor 1 and inhibitor 2 is not a sufficient criterion for implicating protein phosphatase 1 in a cellular process.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a novel protein phosphatase highly specific for ribosomal protein S6. 253 37

Microsomal glycerolphosphate acyltransferase from rat adipose tissue is shown to be inactivated with time upon incubation with ATP. The inactivation can be observed in postmitochondrial supernatant as well as in washed microsomes. However, the effect is more pronounced upon addition of the cytosolic fraction. This activity is specific for ATP, is dependent on the nucleotide concentration, and is prevented when ATP is substituted by beta,gamma-methylene-ATP. Some protection is provided by amiloride but not by EGTA or cAMP-protein kinase inhibitor. Also, the level of enzyme inactivation is not modified by addition of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and its substrates. Inactivated glycerol-phosphate acyltransferase from ATP-treated microsomes can be reactivated by incubation with partially purified protein phosphatase from rat liver. These results suggest the existence in adipose tissue of a protein kinase (cAMP independent) that may be involved in the regulation of glycerolphosphate acyltransferase.
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PMID:Reversible ATP-dependent inactivation of glycerolphosphate acyltransferase from rat adipose tissue. 271 27

Guanylate cyclase is dephosphorylated in response to the interaction of egg peptides with a spermatozoan surface receptor (Suzuki, N., Shimomura, H., Radany, E. W., Ramarao, C. S., Ward, G. E., Bentley, J. K., and Garbers, D. L. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 14874-14879). Here, the phosphorylated form of guanylate cyclase was purified to apparent homogeneity from detergent-solubilized spermatozoan membranes by the use of GTP-agarose, DEAE-Sephacel, and concanavalin A-Sepharose chromatography. To prevent dephosphorylation of the enzyme during purification, glycerol (35%) was required in all buffers. Following purification, a single protein-staining band of Mr 160,000 was obtained on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. The final specific activity of the purified enzyme was 83 mumol of cyclic GMP formed/min/mg of protein at 30 degrees C, an activity 5-fold higher than that observed with the purified, dephosphorylated form of guanylate cyclase. A preparation containing protein phosphatase from spermatozoa, or highly purified alkaline phosphatase (from Escherichia coli), catalyzed the dephosphorylation of the enzyme; this resulted in a subsequent decrease in guanylate cyclase activity and a shift in the Mr from 160,000 to 150,000. The phosphate content of the high Mr form of the enzyme was 14.6 mol/mol protein whereas the phosphate content of the low Mr form was 1.6 mol/mol protein. All phosphate was localized on serine residues. The Mr 160,000 form of guanylate cyclase demonstrated positive cooperative kinetics with respect to MnGTP while the Mr 150,000 form displayed linear, Michaelis-Menten type kinetics. The phosphorylation state of the membrane form of guanylate cyclase, therefore, appears to dictate not only the absolute activity of the enzyme but also the degree of cooperative interaction between catalytic or GTP-binding sites.
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PMID:Purification and properties of the phosphorylated form of guanylate cyclase. 289 12

Protein phosphatase activity towards endogenous nuclear substrates in sonicates of isolated nuclei was activated 2-4-fold by spermine. Exogenous casein was dephosphorylated by these preparations only in the presence of spermine. Activation by spermine was half maximal at about 0.1 mM. Spermidine also activated, with half maximal stimulation at 1mM; putrescine activated poorly. Mg++ and Ca++ appeared to activate the same phosphatase activity but were only 50% as effective as spermine. Spermine activation was inhibited by 200 mM NaCl, 50 mM NaF, or 40 mM beta-glycerol phosphate. Nuclear phosphatase activity, with or without spermine, was inhibited 50% by inhibitor 2 of protein phosphatase 1. These observations suggest that protein phosphatase 1 is a major nuclear protein phosphatase and that its activity against endogenous nuclear substrates is activated by physiological concentrations of spermine.
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PMID:Polyamine-activated protein phosphatase activity in HeLa cell nuclei. 300 89

The major Mn2+-activated phosphoprotein phosphatase of the human erythrocyte has been purified to homogeneity from the cell hemolysate. It is sensitive to both inhibitors 1 and 2 of rabbit skeletal muscle, preferentially dephosphorylates the beta subunit of the phosphorylase kinase, and dephosphorylates a broad range of substrates including phosphorylase a, p-nitro-phenyl phosphate, phosphocasein, the regulatory subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, and both spectrin (Km = 10 microM) and pyruvate kinase (Km = 18 microM) purified from the human erythrocyte. The purified enzyme is stimulated by Mn2+ and to a lesser extent by higher concentrations of Mg2+. The purification procedure was selected to avoid any change in molecular weight, hence subunit composition, between the crude and purified enzyme. Maintenance of the original structure is demonstrated by non-denaturing gel electrophoresis and gel filtration chromatography. Gel filtration of the purified holoenzyme shows a single active component with a Stokes radius of 58 A at a molecular weight position of 180,000. Sedimentation velocity in a glycerol gradient gives a value of 6.1 for S20, w. Together these data indicate a molecular weight of about 135,000. Two bands of equal intensity appear on sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis at molecular weights of 61,700 and 36,300, suggesting a subunit composition of two 36,000 and one 62,000 subunits. The 36-kDa catalytic subunit can be isolated by freezing and thawing the holoenzyme or by hydrophobic chromatography of the holoenzyme. The catalytic subunit shows unchanged substrate and inhibitor specificity but altered metal ion activation.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a high molecular weight type 1 phosphoprotein phosphatase from the human erythrocyte. 302 59

Rat cerebral cortical synaptosomes that had been prelabeled with 32P-orthophosphate were exposed to either (1) K depolarization which causes Ca2+ influx and hence would be expected to activate Ca2+-dependent enzymes, including Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent and Ca2+/diacylglycerol-dependent protein kinases (Ca/CaM kinases and protein kinase C, respectively); or (2) phorbol esters or 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol (OAG), which selectively activate protein kinase C. Proteins whose state of phosphorylation was affected by these treatments could be divided into 3 classes. Class A includes 5 phosphoproteins that showed rapidly increased phosphorylation by synaptosomal depolarization but not by OAG or phorbol ester. Four of these proteins, synapsins Ia and Ib and proteins IIIa and IIIb, are neuron-specific, synaptic vesicle-associated proteins known to be substrates for Ca/CaM kinases I and II. These phosphoproteins were rapidly dephosphorylated upon synaptosomal repolarization. Class B is composed of 2 phosphoproteins that showed rapidly increased phosphorylation by either synaptosomal depolarization or treatment with phorbol ester or OAG. These 2 acidic proteins of Mr87 and 49 kDa are known from in vitro studies to be specific substrates for protein kinase C. Thermolytic peptide mapping indicated that the 87 kDa protein in synaptosomes was phosphorylated by protein kinase C in situ. These 2 phosphoproteins were slowly dephosphorylated upon synaptosomal repolarization. Class C comprises 4 phosphoproteins that were rapidly dephosphorylated upon synaptosomal depolarization and may be substrates for Ca2+-activated protein phosphatase(s). These data suggest that Ca2+ influx into nerve terminals activates Ca/CaM kinases I and II, protein kinase C, and unidentified protein phosphatase(s).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Protein phosphorylation in nerve terminals: comparison of calcium/calmodulin-dependent and calcium/diacylglycerol-dependent systems. 327 30

Compared with several other enveloped viruses, purified virions of frog virus 3 contained a relatively high activity of a protein kinase which catalyzed the phosphorylation of endogenous polypeptides or added substrate proteins. Virions also contained a phosphoprotein phosphatase activity which released phosphate covalently linked to proteins. It was possible to select reaction conditions where turnover of protein phosphoesters was minimal, as the phosphatase required Mn(2+) ions for activity whereas the protein kinase was active in the presence of Mg(2+) ions. Electrophoretic studies in polyacrylamide gels containing sodium dodecyl sulfate indicated that at least 10 of the virion polypeptides were phosphorylated in the in vitro protein kinase reaction. Characterization of these phosphoproteins demonstrated that the phosphate was incorporated predominantly in a phosphoester linkage with serine residues. The protein kinase was solubilized by disrupting purified virions with a nonionic detergent in a high-ionic-strength buffer and was separated from many of the virion substrate proteins by zonal centrifugation in glycerol gradients. The partially purified protein kinase would phosphorylate polypeptides of many different animal viruses, and maximal activity was not dependent on added cyclic nucleotides. These properties distinguished the virion protein kinase from a well characterized cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase which phosphorylated viral proteins only to a small extent.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of animal virus proteins by a virion protein kinase. 435 52

Myosin light chain kinase and a fraction of type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase have been partially purified from bovine brain by affinity chromatography on calmodulin-Sepharose. The myosin kinase was purified approximately 3700-fold and has an estimated molecular weight of 130,000 +/- 10,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. A fraction of soluble cAMP-dependent protein kinase also bound to calmodulin-Sepharose and was purified 2300-fold. A fraction of this cAMP-dependent protein kinase after purification by glycerol gradient centrifugation was shown to contain the two subunits of calcineurin, a major calmodulin-binding protein in brain, and the two subunits of type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase in a ratio of 1:1:2:2. Its sedimentation coefficient was 8.1 S and 9.0 S when centrifuged in the absence or presence of calmodulin, suggesting the formation of a complex between calmodulin and protein kinase. Our results suggest the possibility that calcineurin may be involved in the interaction between the protein kinase and calmodulin. Furthermore, our studies imply that the regulatory subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase, but not the catalytic subunit, is the site of interaction with calmodulin since the catalytic subunit of protein kinase was partially resolved from the complex by cAMP.
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PMID:Interaction of calmodulin with myosin light chain kinase and cAMP-dependent protein kinase in bovine brain. 626 40


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