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Query: EC:3.1.3.16 (calcineurin)
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Brief treatment of rat adipocytes with low concentration of trypsin activated both cell membrane and intracellular insulin-sensitive functions in marked contrast H2O2 (1), increase in pH, and oxidized glutathione (papers I and II). Glucose oxidation was activated maximally by trypsin in 30 s and preceded maximal activation of glycogen synthase, which occurred in 60s. Trypsin action to activate glycogen synthase was further enhanced by insulin. Mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase was also rapidly activated by trypsin. With both insulin and trypsin action, mediator generation was directly demonstrated by glycogen synthase phosphoprotein phosphatase activation. Trypsin is thus the most insulin-like of these four agents studied since it acts by the formation of chemical mediator peptide(s) which are similar but not identical to those produced by insulin.
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PMID:Independent control of selected insulin-sensitive cell membrane and intracellular functions-the linkage of cell membrane and intracellular events controlled by insulin. III. The influence of trypsin on cell membrane hexose transport and on glycogen synthase and mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase activation. 679 3

K-Cl cotransport is involved in volume regulation in a number of cell types. Cell swelling stimulates K-Cl cotransport, probably by inhibition of a volume-sensitive kinase. K-Cl cotransport can also be activated by oxidants and thiol reagents. We investigated the effect of H2O2 on K-Cl cotransport of LK sheep red blood cells in an attempt to identify the target of oxidants. H2O2 stimulated K-Cl cotransport. The stimulation was virtually abolished by subsequent incubation with calyculin, a protein phosphatase inhibitor. This suggests that H2O2 stimulates a calyculin-sensitive phosphatase and activates K-Cl cotransport by causing a decrease in phosphorylation of the transporter or a regulatory protein. The thiol reagent N-ethylmaleimide, which stimulates K-Cl cotransport, did not stimulate cotransport further in cells with cotransport activated by staurosporine but did stimulate cotransport further in cells with cotransport activated by H2O2. These results suggest that there are at least two distinct phosphorylation sites on the transporter or a regulator. The results also suggest that the phosphatase is associated with the membrane.
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PMID:H2O2 activates red blood cell K-Cl cotransport via stimulation of a phosphatase. 748 52

Sublethal concentrations of reactive oxygen intermediates including H2O2 can alter human T cell function and inhibit proliferative responses but relatively little is known about the effects of low levels of oxidant stress on signaling pathways. In the present study, we investigated whether the exposure of Jurkat T cells to micromolar concentrations of H2O2 might influence the activity of certain serine/threonine kinases and protein phosphatases important for T cell signaling as well as initiation of nuclear events. Jurkat cells treated with 100-200 microM H2O2 exhibited rapid increases in cytosolic protein kinase C (PKC) activity without detectable translocation of PKC to the membrane/particulate compartment. The stimulation of PKC activity by H2O2 was associated with an increase in the activation of kinases phosphorylating myelin basic protein (MBP), a substrate for mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase and RRLSSLRA (S6 peptide; a substrate for the approximately 90-kDa ribosomal S6 kinases). Optimal activation of MAP kinase in cells treated with H2O2 was preceded by increases in protein tyrosine phosphorylations and occurred at sublethal concentrations of H2O2 which did not markedly deplete intracellular ATP. Pretreatment of cells with the PKC inhibitors sangivamycin and H7 suppressed but did not block the stimulation of MAP kinase activity in response to H2O2 or phytohemagglutinin. The activities of both protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) and protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) were reduced after H2O2 treatment of intact cells. Furthermore, kinetic studies showed that H2O2 was capable of suppressing the activities of PTP and PP2A before inducing optimal increases in MAP kinase activity. These results demonstrate that the exposure of T cells to sublethal levels of oxidant stress acutely stimulates the MAP kinase cascade and suggest that this activation may involve PKC-dependent and -independent pathways as well as inhibition of certain protein phosphatases.
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PMID:Sublethal levels of oxidant stress stimulate multiple serine/threonine kinases and suppress protein phosphatases in Jurkat T cells. 777 89

The aim of this study was to investigate the stimulating effects of sulfhydryl reagents on glucose transport in isolated rat heart muscle cells and to compare them with the action of insulin. Low concentrations of the sulfhydryl oxidants hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and diamide (5-100 microM), but also of phenylarsine oxide (PAO) (0.5-3 microM), that is known to specifically react with vicinal SH-groups, stimulated the rate of 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake by a factor of 4 to 8 in these cells, while higher concentrations were inhibitory. The stimulating effects of H2O2 or diamide, and, to a significantly lesser extent, those of PAO or insulin, were depressed in cells pretreated with the sulfhydryl-alkylating agent N-ethylmaleimide (56-100 microM). H2O2 raised the Vmax and lowered the Km of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose uptake, while PAO or insulin solely increased Vmax. The increase in glucose transport caused by H2O2 was antagonized by the beta-adrenergic agonist isoprenaline (1 microM) or by a membrane-permeant cyclic AMP analog, whereas the effects of PAO or insulin were not altered. The action of H2O2 was additive with the stimulation induced by the protein phosphatase inhibitors okadaic acid (1 microM) or vanadate (6 mM), whereas the responses to PAO or insulin were reduced in the presence of these agents. Finally, H2O2 and PAO, but not insulin, acted additively with the protein kinase C ligand phorbol myristate acetate (0.8 microM) and with phospholipase C (0.03 units/ml). We conclude that, in cardiac myocytes, H2O2, on the one hand, and PAO (and possibly insulin), on the other hand, stimulate glucose transport via at least two distinct, SH-dependent pathways. These pathways, in turn, differ from a protein kinase C- and from a phospholipase C-mediated mechanism.
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PMID:Phenylarsine oxide and hydrogen peroxide stimulate glucose transport via different pathways in isolated cardiac myocytes. 824 Dec 56

Isoforms of heat shock protein (Hsp) 27 were used as intracellular markers to study tumor necrosis factor/interleukin-1 (TNF/IL-1) regulation of protein phosphatases in primary human fibroblasts. These isoforms were rapidly phosphorylated to varying degrees when fibroblasts were treated with either TNF, IL-1, okadaic acid, calyculin A, ARS, epidermal growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, H2O2, buthionine sulfoximine, N-ethylmaleimide, diethylmaleimide, or iodoacetate. However, inhibitors of protein kinases A and C, tyrosyl protein kinases, and general protein kinases had no effect on the enhanced phosphorylation of these isoforms in TNF, IL-1, okadaic acid, or calyculin A-stimulated cells, suggesting that the activation of protein kinases by itself is insufficient to produce these changes. Isoforms of 32P-labeled Hsp27 were dephosphorylated during cold-chases with excess phosphate in the absence but not in the presence of TNF/IL-1 or inhibitors of protein phosphatases suggesting that inactivation of protein phosphatase(s) plays a role in TNF/IL-1 signal transduction. Assays of phosphatase activity of cytosolic fractions from TNF or okadaic acid treated human fibroblasts showed an inactivation of protein phosphatase activity against the 32P-labeled Hsp27 protein substrates. In vitro assays of partially purified phosphatase activity from primary human fibroblasts with Hsp27 substrate also showed the protein phosphatase activity to be inhibited by ARS. Like okadaic acid, ARS mimics TNF in inducing specific patterns of cellular protein phosphorylation. Taken together these findings are consistent with the hypothesis that a SH-dependent protein phosphatase is inactivated during the early events of TNF/IL-1 signal transduction, hence inhibitors of protein phosphatases and SH modifying compounds can mimic the early effects of TNF/IL-1 on cells.
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PMID:Inactivation of a redox-sensitive protein phosphatase during the early events of tumor necrosis factor/interleukin-1 signal transduction. 838 May 91

A radiation-inducible immediate-early gene, IEX-1, was identified and characterized in human squamous carcinoma cells. Sequence analysis revealed 156-amino acid nucleotides, encoding a protein of Mr 20,000. The protein is glycosylated (Mr approximately 27,000) in the presence of microsomal membranes. Northern analysis reveals a 1.2-kb transcript. Treatment with cycloheximide was associated with superinduction of this transcript suggesting that it is an immediate-early gene. The abundance of IEX-1 mRNA increased rapidly after exposure of the cells to ionizing radiation (2-10 Gy), reaching a maximum by 15 min and returning subsequently to basal levels by 4 h. Expression of IEX-1 was also induced significantly by the protein kinase C (PKC) activator 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), the protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, whereas treatment of cells with UV light and H2O2 had little effect on IEX-1 expression. Cells depleted of PKC by prolonged incubation with TPA showed no attenuated IEX-1 response to tumor necrosis factor-alpha. This is the first report of IEX-1, a radiation-inducible glycosylated human protein, whose expression can be mediated through multisignal transduction pathways.
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PMID:Identification and characterization of a radiation-inducible glycosylated human early-response gene. 860 92

Vanadyl ribonucleoside and orthovanadate are commonly employed as inhibitors of ribonuclease and protein phosphatase activities, respectively, in a variety of tissue preparations. We have observed that the presence of these agents in the tissue samples interferes in the measurement of their protein content using the Coomassie dye binding procedure. We have demonstrated that this interference in the protein assay can be overcome by including H2O2 at a final concentration of 0.1% in the protein assay medium prior to the addition of the dye reagent. This results in accurate measurements of the protein content in the tissue preparation containing vanadyl ribonucleoside or orthovanadate.
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PMID:Interference in protein assays of biological specimens by vanadyl compounds. 866 May 40

Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphotyrosine from specific signal-transducing proteins. Although regulatory mechanisms for protein kinases have been described, no general mechanism for controlling PTPs has been demonstrated. Numerous reports have shown that cellular redox status plays an important role in tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent signal transduction pathways. This study explores the proposal that PTPs may be regulated by reversible reduction/oxidation involving cellular oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Recent reports indicated that H2O2 is transiently generated during growth factor stimulation and that H2O2 production is concomitant with relevant tyrosine phosphorylation. By use of recombinant enzymes, the effects of H2O2 on three PTPs [PTP1, LAR (leukocyte antigen-related), and VHR (vaccinia H1-related)] and three distinct serine/threonine protein phosphatases (PPs: PP2Calpha, calcineurin, and lambda phosphatase) were determined. Hydrogen peroxide had no apparent effect on PP activity. In contrast, PTPs were rapidly inactivated (kinact = 10-20 M-1 s-1) with low micromolar concentrations of H2O2 but not with large alkyl hydroperoxides. PTP inactivation was fully reversible with glutathione and other thiols. Because of the slower rate of reduction, modification occurred even in the presence of physiological thiol concentrations. By utilization of a variety of biochemical techniques including chemical modification, pH kinetic studies, and mutagenesis, the catalytic cysteine thiolate of PTPs was determined to be the selective target of oxidation by H2O2. By use of the electrophilic reagent 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1, 3-diazole (NBD-Cl), it was shown that a cysteine sulfenic acid intermediate (Cys-SOH) is formed after attack of the catalytic thiolate on H2O2. A chemical mechanism for reversible inactivation involving a cysteine sulfenic acid intermediate is proposed.
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PMID:Specific and reversible inactivation of protein tyrosine phosphatases by hydrogen peroxide: evidence for a sulfenic acid intermediate and implications for redox regulation. 954 49

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), an oxidant generated by inflammatory cells, is an important mediator of injury of endothelial cells (ECs). Here we show that H2O2 induces up-regulation of the expression of Fas, a death signal, in human ECs in culture. Flow cytometric analysis with a mAb against human Fas showed that incubation for 24 h with H2O2 induced a dose-dependent increase in the level of Fas in ECs. Coincubation with catalase, which rapidly degrades H2O2, inhibited H2O2-induced up-regulation of Fas. H2O2 also induced a dose-dependent increase in Fas mRNA level. A significant increase in Fas mRNA levels was observed from 6 h after stimulation with H2O2. Vanadate, a protein phosphatase inhibitor, significantly enhanced Fas mRNA and protein levels in H2O2-treated ECs. On the other hand, genistein, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, inhibited H2O2-induced Fas mRNA expression. Furthermore, a flow cytometric method with propidium iodide staining and electron microscopic analysis showed that incubation with an agonistic Ab against Fas (anti-Fas IgM) induced apoptosis in H2O2-treated cells. These findings suggest that H2O2 induces up-regulation of Fas in ECs and that activation of protein tyrosine kinase may be involved in the mechanism of H2O2-induced Fas expression. Therefore, Fas-mediated apoptosis may have a pathologic role in H2O2-induced EC injury and thereby provide a new therapeutic target.
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PMID:Hydrogen peroxide induces up-regulation of Fas in human endothelial cells. 955 14

Freshly isolated protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) was highly active as to the dephosphorylation of protein substrates, but lost most of its spontaneous activity on prolonged storage, and was converted to a latent form requiring Mn2+ or Co2+ ions for activity. In this report, we show that the latent form of PP2A can be activated by the Fe2+/ascorbate system. Activation of the phosphatase required both Fe2+ ions and ascorbate, and the level of activation was dependent on the concentrations of both Fe2+ ions and ascorbate. Both the holoenzyme and catalytic subunit of phosphatase 2A could be activated by the Fe2+/ascorbate system, indicating that direct modulation of the catalytic subunit of the phosphatase by the Fe2+/ascorbate system may cause this activation. Several common divalent metal ions, including Ca2+, Mg2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, and Ni2+ ions, cannot cooperate with ascorbate to activate the phosphatase. Dithiothreitol, a SH-containing reducing agent, could replace ascorbate in the Fe2+/ascorbate system to activate the phosphatase, whereas H2O2, a strong oxidizer, significantly diminished the phosphatase activation by the Fe2+/ascorbate system. The results indicate that iron ions stabilized in the +2 state by reducing agents can activate the phosphatase. Overall, the present study provides initial biochemical evidence suggesting that Fe2+ could be a biologically important metal ion cofactor responsible for PP2A activation.
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PMID:Activation of protein phosphatase 2A by the Fe2+/ascorbate system. 964 67


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