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A number of protein modification activities are present in the protein-synthesizing complex isolated from rabbit reticulocytes. These enzymes are solubilized by sedimentation of the ribosomes through buffered sucrose containing 0.5 M KCl, and have been partially purified from the high salt wash fraction by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and phosphocellulose. The ribosomal-associated enzymatic activities include cyclic AMP-regulated and cyclic nucloetide-independent protein kinase, phosphoprotein phosphatase, and acetyltransferase activities. These enzymatic activities have been shown to modify specific ribosomal and ribosomal-associated proteins. The cycli c AMP-regulated protein kinase phosphorylate the 40 S ribosomal subunit from rabbit reticulocytes. One of the cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase catalyzes the phosphorylation of two different factors involved in the initiation of hemoglobin synthesis. A single phosphoprotein phosphatase activity is shown to remove phosphate from 40 S ribosomal subunits. The major acetyltransferase activity associated with ribosomes acetylates a 60 S ribosomal protein.
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PMID:Protein modification enzymes associated with the protein-synthesizing complex from rabbit reticulocytes. Protein kinase, phosphoprotein phosphatase, and acetyltransferase. 1 14

The phosphorylation of spectrin polypeptide 2 is thought to be involved in the metabolically dependent regulation of red cell shape and deformability. Spectrin phosphorylation is not affected by cAMP. The reaction in isolated membranes resembles the cAMP-independent, salt-stimulated phosphorylation of an exogenous substrate, casein, by enzyme(s) present both in isolated membranes and cytoplasmic extracts. Spectrin kinase is selectively eluted from membranes by 0.5 M NaCl and co-fractionates with eluted casein kinase. Phosphorylation of band 3 in the membrane is inhibited by salt, but the band 3 kinase is otherwise indistinguishable operationally from spectrin kinase. The membrane-bound casein (spectrin) kinase is not eluted efficiently with spectrin at low ionic strength; about 80% of the activity is apparently bound at sites (perhaps on or near band 3) other than spectrin. Partitioning of casein kinase between cytoplasm and membrane is metabolically dependent; the proportion of casein kinase on the membrane can range from 25% to 75%, but for fresh cells is normally about 40%. Dephosphorylation of phosphorylated spectrin has not been studied intensively. Slow release of 32Pi from [32P] spectrin on the membrane can be demonstrated, but phosphatase activity measured against solubilized [32P] spectrin is concentrated in the cytoplasm. The crude cytoplasmic phosphospectrin phosphatase is inhibited by various anions--notably, ATP and 2,3-DPG at physiological concentrations. Regulation of spectrin phosphorylation in intact cells has not been studied. We speculate that spectrin phosphorylation state may be regulated 1) by metabolic intermediates and other internal chemical signals that modulate kinase and phosphatase activities per se or determine their intracellular localization and 2) by membrane deformation that alters enzyme-spectrin interaction locally. Progress in the isolation and characterization of spectrin kinase and phosphospectrin phosphatase should lead to the resolution of major questions raised by previous work: the relationships between membrane-bound and cytoplasmic forms of the enzymes, the nature of their physical interactions with the membrane, and the regulation of their activities in defined cell-free systems.
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PMID:Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of spectrin. 3 38

Using 32P-labeled phosphocasein or phosphohistones as exogenous substrates it was possible to detect a phosphoprotein phosphatase activity on the outer surface of intact normal and transformed 3T3 fibroblasts. Incubation of monolayers of intact cells in buffered salt solution with the radioactively labeled substrate resulted in the release of alkali-labile 32P counts into the surrounding medium. The reaction was: (a) linear with time (at least up to 20 min); (b) proportional to the cell density; (c) dependent on the temperature and pH of the incubation medium; (d) stimulated by K+; and (e) inhibited by sodium fluoride, inorganic pyrophosphate, zinc chloride and relatively impermeant sulfhydryl reagents. Less than 2% of the externally located phosphoprotein phosphatase activity was detectable in pooled cell-free washings of the intact cell monolayer. Phosphocasein did not cause any detectable leakage of intracellular lactate dehydrogenase or soluble phosphoprotein phosphatase activity into the external medium; incubation of the cells with phosphohistones, on the other hand, resulted in appreciable leakage of both these cytoplasmic activities. Neoplastic transformation was associated with a nearly two-fold decrease in the activity of the surface phosphoprotein phosphatase. Addition of serum to either non-transformed 3T3 or spontaneously transformed 3T6 cells resulted in a rapid and remarkeable drop in the cell surface dephosphorylating activity. Acrylamide gel electrophoresis of the dephosphorylated casein or histone substrate revealed no proteolytic degradation or change in electrophoretic mobility. The intact cells showed no damage upon microscopic examination as a result of exposure to phosphocasein or phosphohistones.
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PMID:Phosphoprotein phosphatase activity at the outer surface of intact normal and transformed 3T3 fibroblasts. 22 67

When myofibrils from rat hearts were dissolved in concentrated salt solutions and reprecipitated by dilution, they contained both protein kinase (partly cyclic 3':5'-AMP-dependent) and protein phosphatase activities. Troponin-I was the major protein to be phosphorylated by the endogenous myofibril-associated kinase and by added protein kinase. Approximately 1 mole of phosphate per mole of troponin-I was incorporated from radioactive ATP, but the extent of troponin-I phosphorylation could be varied experimentally. An inverse correlation was found between protein phosphorylation and the maximum Ca2+-stimulated myofibrillar Mg2+-ATPase activity, while the amout of calcium required for half-maximum activation was proportional to the extent of protein phosphorylation. The changes in Mg2+-ATPase activity produced in vitro by protein phosphorylation were reproduced in isolated perfused rat hearts treated for short periods with L-noradrenaline (10(-6)M). The changes in myofibrillar function brought about as the result of the phosphorlyation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase suggest that the contractile response is desensitized in order to cope with the rise in intracellular Ca2+ which results from the action of catecholamines on cardiac ventricular cells.
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PMID:Cardiac myofibrillar phosphorylation and adenosine triphosphatase activity. 22 75

Highly purified Sendai virus contained a protein kinase activity which atatlysed the phosphorylation of endogenous polypeptides or exogenous protamine sulphate. The virus contained very low levels of phosphoprotein phosphatase activity. Polyacrylamide gel analysis of the reaction product indicated that the phosphorylation was specific for certain polypeptides and varied according to whether the virus was grown in eggs or in tissue culture. This variation was partially associated with the difference in the polypeptide pattern that occurred when the virus was grown in eggs or in tissue culture. Characterization of these phosphoproteins demonstrated that the phosphate was incorporated predominantly in a phosphoester linkage with theonine residues. Using a detergent and high salt solubilization procedure, the protein kinase activity was found associated within glycoprotein free virus particles but not with the nucleocapsid-associated polypeptides. In vivo phosphorylation occurred when Sendai virus was grown in eggs or in tissue culture with [32P] and the phosphorylated polypeptides were similar to those of the protein kinase reaction product. Phosphorylation could also be detected in the infected cell and could occur once the virus particle polypeptides were being synthesized. The non-structural polypeptides were not phosphorylated.
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PMID:The phosphorylation of sendai virus proteins by a virus particle-associated protein kinase. 23 97

A phosphoprotein phosphatase which is active against chemically phosphorylated protamine has been purified about 500-fold from bovine adrenal cortex. The enzyme has a pH optimum between 7.5 and 8.0, and has an apparent Km for phosphoprotamine of about 50 muM. The hydrolysis of phosphoprotamine is stimulated by salt, and by Mn2+. Hydrolysis of phosphoprotamine is inhibited by ATP, ADP, AMP, and Pi, but is not affected by AMP or cyclic GMP. The purified phosphoprotein phosphatase preparation also dephosphorylates p-nitrophenyl phosphate and phosphohistone, and catalyzes the inactivation of liver phosphorylase, the inactivation of muscle phosphorylase a (and its conversion to phosphorylase b), and the inactivation of muscle phosphorylase b kinase. Phosphatase activities against phosphoprotamine and muscle phosphorylase a copurify over the last three stages of purification. Phosphoprotamine inhibits phosphorylase phosphatase activity, and muscle phosphorylase a inhibits the dephosphorylation of phosphoprotamine. These results suggest that one enzyme possesses both phosphoprotamine phosphatase and phosphorylase phosphatase activities. The stimulation of phosphorylase phosphatase activity, but not of phosphoprotamine phosphatase activity, by caffeine and by glucose, suggests that the different activities of this phosphoprotein phosphatase may be regulated separately.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a phosphoprotein phosphatase from bovine adrenal cortex. 24 3

Nuclei from bovine thymus contain a high level of partially latent protein phosphatase 1 (PP-1). More than 90% of this PP-1 is associated with the insoluble chromatin/matrix fraction and can be extracted with 0.3 M NaCl. The salt extract also contains three heat- and acid-stable inhibitory proteins of PP-1 that can be resolved on Mono Q. We have purified two of these nuclear inhibitors of PP-1 (NIPP-1a and NIPP-1b) until homogeneity. They are acidic proteins (pI = 4.4) with a molecular mass of 18 kDa (NIPP-1a) and 16 kDa (NIPP-1b) on SDS-PAGE. Judged from the larger molecular mass that was deduced from gel filtration (35 kDa), NIPP-1a and NIPP-1b appear to be asymmetric or dimeric proteins. The nuclear inhibitors totally inhibited the phosphorylase phosphatase activity of PP-1, but even at a 250-fold higher concentration they did not affect the activities of the other major serine/threonine protein phosphatases (PP-2A, PP-2B, and PP-2C). NIPP-1a and NIPP-1b inhibited the catalytic subunit of PP-1 with an extrapolated Ki of about 1 pM, which is some three orders of magnitude better than the cytoplasmic proteins inhibitor 1/DARPP-32 and modulator. The nuclear inhibitors were not inactivated by incubation with protein phosphatases that inactivate inhibitor 1 and DARPP-32. Unlike modulator, they were not able to convert the catalytic subunit of PP-1 into a MgATP-dependent form. Remarkably, the extent of inhibition of PP-1 by NIPP-1b depended on the nature of the substrate. The phosphorylase phosphatase and casein phosphatase activities of PP-1 were completely blocked by NIPP-1b, whereas the dephosphorylation of basic proteins was either not at all inhibited (histone IIA) or only partially (myelin basic protein). These data may indicate that the acidic NIPP-1b is inactivated through complexation by basic proteins. Indeed, nonphosphorylated histone IIA antagonized the inhibitory effect of NIPP-1b on the casein phosphatase activity of PP-1. Our data show that the nucleus contains specific and potent inhibitory proteins of PP-1 that differ from earlier described cytoplasmic inhibitors. We suggest that these novel proteins may control the activity of nuclear PP-1 on its natural substrate(s).
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PMID:The isolation of novel inhibitory polypeptides of protein phosphatase 1 from bovine thymus nuclei. 132 7

A phosphoprotein phosphatase (PPase: EC 3.1.3.2) was recently purified from rat epidermis. The enzyme dephosphorylates phosphoprotein, and its properties, such as pH optimum, inhibitor spectrum, and Fe2+ activation, differ from those of other soluble phosphatases. We investigated in 2-day-old rat skin the distribution of immunologically detectable PPase and intracellular localization of PPase activity. The reaction of rabbit monospecific anti-PPase IgG was identified in granular and cornified cells by the avidin-biotin complex method. For activity staining, basic principles of the Gomori lead-salt method and azo dye technique with the substrates p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) and alpha-naphthyl phosphate (NP), respectively, were modified according to the biochemical properties of PPase activity which is resistant to formalin, Na tartrate, and NaF. Activity was detectable in granular cells including keratohyalin granules and the lower strata of cornified cells. The activity was inhibited by 1 mM CuSO4 and enhanced by a mixture of 0.5 mM FeSO4 and 1 mM ascorbic acid. We consider that PPase may be involved in dephosphorylation of histidine-rich proteins in granular and cornified cells and may play a key role in intracellular catabolism associated with epidermal cell differentiation.
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PMID:Immuno- and enzyme-histochemical detection of phosphoprotein phosphatase in rat epidermis. 253 8

The activation of porcine heart latent protein phosphatase (Fc.M) by pretreatment with Mn++ followed by trypsin (Mn/trypsin) can be stimulated 2.5-fold by including NaCl or KCl in the activation mixtures. The salts also stimulated the activation of the enzyme by Mn++ to the same level as that obtained by Mn/trypsin pretreatment in the absence of salt. The presence of salt in both the Mn++ and Mn/trypsin activations decreased the Mn++ requirement 10-fold in each case. Treatment of latent Fc.M by Mn/trypsin in the presence of 0.2 M NaCl or KCl offers a convenient method of expressing the full potential activity of the protein phosphatase.
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PMID:Salt stimulation of the activation of latent protein phosphatase, Fc.M, by Mn++ and by Mn/trypsin. 254 11

Two types of protein phosphatases were identified in carefully prepared bovine rod outer segments (ROS). Extraction of the ROS with a medium-salt buffer solubilized protein phosphatase activity that was mainly type 2A, since it was active toward phosphorylase a in the absence of divalent cations, was not retained by heparin-Sepharose, dephosphorylated the alpha-subunit of phosphorylase kinase faster that the beta-subunit, and was unaffected by inhibitor 2. Further extraction of the resulting membranes with a high-salt buffer solubilized additional phosphatase activity which was predominantly type 1, since it was retained by heparin-Sepharose and was blocked by inhibitor 2. The molecular mass of the type 2A phosphatase estimated by gel permeation chromatography on Superose 12 was 100 kDa, suggesting it may be the 2A2 form. Only the ROS type 2A phosphatase dephosphorylated opsin and rhodopsin efficiently. Concordant with this finding, the purified catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 2A from rabbit skeletal muscle dephosphorylated opsin efficiently, while the type 1 catalytic subunit isolated from this tissue was inactive. Together, the results suggest that the ROS type 2A protein phosphatase plays an important role in regenerating rhodopsin from the various phosphorylated species in vivo. The activity of the enzyme per retina (approximately 85 pmol of Pi released/min) is comparable to that of rhodopsin kinase (100 pmol of phosphate transferred/min).
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PMID:Interplay of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation in vision: protein phosphatases of bovine rod outer segments. 255 19


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